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Consumption and Identity Jonathan Friedman 9783718655922
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08First published in 2004. Studies in Anthropology and History is a series that will develop new theoretical perspectives, and combine comparative and ethnographic studies with historical research... -
Hegemonic Decline: Present and Past by Jonathan Friedman
RRP: $370.50Booksplease Price: $163.16Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S... -
Globalization, the State, and Violence by Jonathan Friedman 9780759102811
Booksplease Price: $101.40Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they... -
Hegemonic Decline: Present and Past by Jonathan Friedman 9781594510090
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $113.86Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S... -
The History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen by Jonathan Friedman 9781350153035
Booksplease Price: $69.15The organization 'Genocide Watch' estimates that 100 million civilians around the globe have lost their lives as a result of genocide in only the past sixty years. Over the same period, the visual... -
System, Structure, and Contradiction: The Evolution of 'Asiatic' Social Formations by Jonathan Friedman 9780761989349
Booksplease Price: $99.84The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in merging the materialist determinism of the structuralist Marxists with the cultural, ideological approach favored by... -
PC Worlds: Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony Jonathan Friedman 9781785336720
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $166.06This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take... -
PC Worlds: Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony by Jonathan Friedman 9781836950578
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $47.50This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take... -
Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era by Mitchell L. Stevens 9780691158693
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $64.00An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan U.S. research universities have long... -
Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era by Mitchell L. Stevens 9780691202938
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $52.26An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitanU.S. research universities have long... -
Public Policy and Ethnicity: The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making by Roger Openshaw 9780230003385
Booksplease Price: $91.14Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category? Drawing on international studies, including New Zealand, the book shows that this process of public policymaking creates artificial... -
Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism Don Kalb 9781805398226
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $183.20Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using... -
World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change Robert. A Denemark 9780415232777
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $105.50This extraordinary book presents a refreshing and innovative overview of the changes to the global system over the last 5000 years. Featuring renowned contributors - each specialists in their field -... -
Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms: Ethnographies of Experience Ingjerd Hoem 9781571815583
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $166.06In anthropology, theoretical approaches attempting to come to terms with experiences of social interaction, often inspired by phenomenology, have come to the fore in opposition to the previously... -
Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization: The Anthropology of Global Systems by Kajsa Ekholm Friedman 9780759111127
Booksplease Price: $221.15In Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization, two distinguished anthropologists look at how global processes have shaped the emergence of our dynamic and often difficult and... -
Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization: The Anthropology of Global Systems by Kajsa Ekholm Friedman 9780759111134
Booksplease Price: $100.82In Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization, two distinguished anthropologists look at how global processes have shaped the emergence of our dynamic and often difficult and... -
Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television by Jonathan C. Friedman 9781793640154
Booksplease Price: $178.21Haunted Laughter addresses whether it is appropriate to use comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler, The Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Guided by existing theories of comedy and memory and... -
Detraditionalization Paul Heelas (University of Lancaster) 9781557865557
RRP: $91.55Booksplease Price: $85.64The modernity and postmodernity debates of recent years have tended to direct attention towards frameworks of periodization, and away from the social and cultural processes currently at work in the... -
Detraditionalization by Paul Heelas 9781557865540
RRP: $226.10Booksplease Price: $210.78The modernity and postmodernity debates of recent years have tended to direct attention towards frameworks of periodization, and away from the social and cultural processes currently at work in the... -
The End of Organized Capitalism by Scott Lash 9780745600697
Booksplease Price: $40.95In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history. In a wide-ranging analysis of the... -
Modernity and Identity Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 9780631175865
RRP: $79.85Booksplease Price: $76.26Modernity and Identity is a groundbreaking collective work which announces a radical new departure within contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism. While dominant conceptions of both... -
Hopis and the Counterculture: Traditionalism, Appropriation, and the Birth of a Social Field Brian Haley 9780816553662
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $126.54This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the explosive appropriation of Indigenous identities in the... -
Performing Difference: Representations of 'The Other' in Film and Theatre by Jonathan C. Friedman 9780761841548
Booksplease Price: $119.03Performing Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and... -
Historical Transformations: The Anthropology of Global Systems by Kajsa Ekholm Friedman 9780759111110
Booksplease Price: $100.82Historical Transformations represents the work of two distinguished anthropologists over three decades on the history and importance of global thinking in the social sciences. The authors consider... -
Public Policy and Ethnicity: The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making by Roger Openshaw 9781349281053
Booksplease Price: $90.25Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category? Drawing on international studies, including New Zealand, the book shows that this process of public policymaking creates artificial... -
Hopis and the Counterculture: Traditionalism, Appropriation, and the Birth of a Social Field by Brian Haley 9780816553655
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the explosive appropriation of Indigenous identities in the... -
Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies by Bruce M. Knauft
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53"Critically Modern makes a critical intervention in one of the great debates of the moment. It offers a variety of rich and fascinating empirical analyses of 'modern' phenomena from diverse... -
Historical Transformations: The Anthropology of Global Systems by Kajsa Ekholm Friedman 9780759111103
Booksplease Price: $219.24Historical Transformations represents the work of two distinguished anthropologists over three decades on the history and importance of global thinking in the social sciences. The authors consider... -
The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader Brent Luvaas (Drexel University, USA) 9781474282567
Booksplease Price: $84.03Anthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline. The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader is the first... -
Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems Aihwa Ong (University of California, Berkerley) 9780631231752
RRP: $220.25Booksplease Price: $198.26Provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalization-bioscientific research, neoliberalism, governance-from the perspective of the... -
The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change by Holly Wardlow 9780815347453
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $71.49Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied... -
Speech Freedom on Campus: Past, Present, and Future by Joseph Russomanno 9781793623621
Booksplease Price: $73.73Traditionally, the university or college is thought to be the ultimate location for the discovery and sharing of knowledge. After all, on these campuses are some of the great minds across all fields,... -
Banning Books in America: Not a How-to Samuel Cohen 9798765138076
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.89This is a book about banned books in the U.S. - about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.Banning Books in America features novelists on... -
Culture and Authenticity Charles Lindholm (Boston University) 9781405124430
RRP: $62.30Booksplease Price: $60.76Authenticity is taken-for-granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. In Culture and Authenticity, Charles Lindholm calls upon anthropological case studies from different cultures, historical... -
Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes by Patricia Heberer
Booksplease Price: $66.87Since the Nuremberg trials following World War II, there has been considerable debate about the nature and effects of war crimes with regard both to the Nazis and to modern-day perpetrators. What... -
The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic Alf Hornborg 9781598741018
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.87In this benchmark volume top scholars come together to present state-of-the-art research and pursue a more rigorous framework for understanding and studying the linkages between social and ecological... -
Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television by Jonathan C. Friedman 9781793640178
Booksplease Price: $65.31A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleHaunted Laughter addresses whether it is appropriate to use comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler, The Third Reich, and the Holocaust... -
The Struggle for the World: Liberation Movements for the 21st Century by Charles Lindholm 9780804759380
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.12What do Mexico's Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture, and al-Qaeda all have in common? From right-wing to left-wing to no-wing, they all proudly proclaim their mission...