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The Gift - Expanded Edition Marcel Mauss 9780990505006
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £11.96Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss's masterpiece, Essay on the Gift. With this new translation, this crucial... -
The Elementary Forms of Corruption: Moral Imagination and Political Change in Brazil by Aaron Ansell 9781914363160
Booksplease Price: £24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914363160Author Aaron AnsellFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint HAUPublisher HAUWeight(grams)... -
The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds Eduardo Viveiros De Cas 9780990505037
Booksplease Price: £27.15This book is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought... -
The Logic of Invention by Roy Wagner
Booksplease Price: £24.64In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of... -
Comparing Impossibilities - Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore by Sally Falk Moore 9780986132551
Booksplease Price: £31.11Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major... -
Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things by Marilyn Strathern
Booksplease Price: £25.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999157077Author Marilyn StrathernFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint HauPublisher... -
World - An Anthropological Examination Joao De Pina-cabral 9780997367508
Booksplease Price: £27.15What do we mean when we refer to the world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does the world mean for the ethnographer and the... -
Becoming Somebody Else: Blackouts, Addiction, and Agency Amongst London's Homeless by Joshua Burraway 9781914363290
Booksplease Price: £28.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914363290Author Joshua BurrawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint HauPublisher HauWeight(grams)... -
The Mythology in Our Language - Remarks on Frazer`s Golden Bough Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780990505068
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.75In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer's "Golden Bough," published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact - continental thinkers... -
The Chimera Principle - An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination Carlo Severi 9780990505051
Booksplease Price: £27.15Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi's The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions... -
How Is It Between Us?: Relational Ethics and Care for the World Jarrett Zigon 9781914363054
Booksplease Price: £24.80A new theory of relational ethics that tackles contemporary issues. In How Is It Between Us?, Jarrett Zigon puts anthropology and phenomenological hermeneutics in conversation to develop a new theory... -
The Fire of the Jaguar Terence Turner 9780997367546
Booksplease Price: £27.15Not since Clifford Geertz's "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" has the publication of an anthropological analysis been as eagerly awaited as this book, Terence S. Turner's The Fire of the... -
Translating Worlds - The Epistemological Space of Translation by Carlo Severi 9780986132513
Booksplease Price: £20.12Set against the backdrop of anthropology's recent focus on various "turns" (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of... -
Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society by Emile Benveniste 9780986132599
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.50Since its publication in 1969, emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society has been the classic reference for tracing the... -
Art of Life and Death - Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice by Andrew Irving 9780997367515
Booksplease Price: £32.30The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to... -
Gifts and Commodities C. A. Gregory 9780990505013
Booksplease Price: £27.15C A Gregory's Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value,... -
Magic - A Theory from the South by Ernesto de Martino
Booksplease Price: £27.15Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the... -
Mistrust - An Ethnographic Theory Matthew Carey 9780997367522
Booksplease Price: £20.12Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and virtuous, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and... -
Two Lenins - A Brief Anthropology of Time Anthropology of Time Nikolai Ssorin-chaikov 9780997367539
Booksplease Price: £20.12Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time... -
Acting for Others - Relational Transformations in Papua New Guinea Pascale Bonnemere 9780997367584
Booksplease Price: £27.15For the Ankave of Papua New Guinea, men, unlike women, do not reach adulthood and become fathers simply by growing up and reproducing. What fathers and by extension, men actually are is a result of a... -
On Kings David Graeber 9780986132506
Booksplease Price: £28.85In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by... -
Four Lectures on Ethics - Anthropological Perspectives by Michael Lambek 9780990505075
Booksplease Price: £27.15Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists... -
Ways of Baloma - Rethinking Magic and Kinship From the Trobriands by Mark S. Mosko 9780997367560
Booksplease Price: £40.38Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that... -
The AntiWitch by Jeanne Favret-Saada
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.19Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France's most brilliant anthropologists, and The Anti-Witch is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic... -
Before and After Gender - Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life by Marilyn Strathern 9780986132537
Booksplease Price: £27.45Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a... -
From Hospitality to Grace - A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus by Julian Alfred Pitt-Rivers 9780986132520
Booksplease Price: £39.90The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered,... -
An Extraordinary Scandal: The Westminster Expenses Crisis and Why it Still Matters by Emma Crewe
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Featuring interviews with the MPs, journalists and officials close to the centre of Britain's biggest political crisis since the Profumo Affair, this is the story of what really happened during the... -
Kathmandu by Tomas Bell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his... -
China Rediscovered: The Benaki Museum Collection of Chinese Ceramics by George Manginis
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91This richly illustrated book showcases a previously unseen and virtually unknown historical collection of Chinese ceramics, formed in the early twentieth century by George Eumorfopoulos, a pivotal... -
The Vitality of Democracy Gisela Stuart 9781913368517
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31There is no such thing as the perfect society. There are no hard and fast rules on how to make it work for everyone. If we don't want to have things imposed upon us, then government by the people and... -
Bealport: A Novel of a Town Jeffrey Lewis 9781912208791
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05An old shoe factory in a costal New England town is up for sale again. When a private equity mogul with a fondness for the factory's shoes buys it, he sets in motion a story with profound... -
A Love Affair with Europe: The Case for a European Future by Giles Radice
Booksplease Price: £18.63From his earliest childhood, Europe has been close to Giles Radice's heart. His paternal great-great grandfather, an Italian nationalist, was fortunate enough to come to Britain in 1821 as a... -
Drawing the Line: The Irish Border in British Politics by Ivan Gibbons
Booksplease Price: £17.92Although it is approaching a century in existence, the Irish border is currently one of the most topical issues in British politics. For most of its existence, the border rarely impinged on the... -
Churchill's Britain: From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight by Peter Clark
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £8.10More than half a century after his death, Winston Churchill, the most significant British statesman of the twentieth century, continues to intrigue us. Peter Clark's book, however, is not merely... -
No 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street by Jack Brown
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Behind the world's most iconic front door lies the core of British political power: the Prime Minister's home and office. Designed over three centuries ago as an ordinary residence, 10 Downing... -
The Responsibilities of Democracy by Nick Clegg
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Democracy operates on consent. That means politicians have to argue their causes and win consensus. But democracy has its flaws, not least in the lack of efficiency in the decision-making process... -
The Ethics of Space - Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England Steph Grohmann 9781912808281
Booksplease Price: £28.55Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are... -
Major by Robert Taylor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, but his initial popularity soon faded with the devaluation of the sterling, his achievement at Maastricht which brought division to his party... -
Establishment and Meritocracy by Peter Hennessy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly... -
Heath by Denis MacShane
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A passionate European, Edward Heath succeeded in taking Britain into the European Community. He was latter challenged for the leadership of the party by Margaret Thatcher who sidelined him during her...