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Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS and Cultures of Blame in Africa by Alexander Rodlach
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99A witch's curse, an imperialist conspiracy, a racist plot-HIV/AIDS is a catastrophic health crisis with complex cultural dimensions. From small villages to the international system, explanations of... -
Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2008 by Sherry Hutt
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.85The Yearbooks of Cultural Property Law provide the key, up-to-date information and analyses that keep heritage professionals, lawyers, and land managers abreast of current legal practice, including... -
A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology: The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn by Stephen Leach 9781629581392
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn, Russia's foremost archaeological theorist, remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. Until now. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen... -
Mudpacks and Prozac: Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing by Murphy Halliburton 9781598743999
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies-from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of... -
Reuben's Fall: A Rhizomatic Analysis of Disobedience in Kindergarten by Sheri L. Leafgren
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54This study offers a lens on two kindergarten classrooms, examining moments of disobedience as children interacted with children, their teachers, and the space and time elements of the classroom... -
Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition by Conrad Phillip Kottak
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. The Updated Edition brings forward the author's research on this topic since the original... -
Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East: Production, Use, and Social Significance by Claudia Glatz 9781629580913
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the fourth millennium... -
Modern Capitalist Culture, Abridged Edition by Leslie A. White 9781598741582
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This lost classic by Leslie A. White represents twenty-five years of his scholarship on the anthropology of modern capitalism. Drawing out his now classic formulations of social organization,... -
Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence by Norman K. Denzin 9781598743227
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99What is evidence in qualitative inquiry and how is it evaluated? What is true or false in research is strongly influenced by socially defined criteria and by the politics of academia. In providing... -
Critical Historical Archaeology by Mark P. Leone 9781598743975
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14How can we use the past to make sense of the issues and problems that concern us in the present? Mark Leone, the leading critical theorist in historical archaeology, urges archaeologists to view... -
Aging A-Z: Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology by Carroll L. Estes 9781629584508
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the... -
Environmental Site Plans and Development Review by Robert Sanford 9781629584782
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29The most effective way to participate in land stewardship and environmental management is to get involved in the review of proposed developments. In smaller communities, this review is primarily done... -
Born to Choose: Evolution, Self, and Well-Being by John H. Falk 9781629585635
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.44Born to Choose is John H. Falk's compelling account of why and how we make the endless set of choices we do, every second of every day of our lives. Synthesizing research from across the biological... -
Practicing Oral History with Immigrant Narrators by Carol McKirdy
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In addition to the problem of language, conducting oral histories with immigrant narrators often requires special considerations: past violence, cultural sensitivity, and lack of trust. Yet, these... -
Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes by Denise Y. Arnold
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. Scholars have spoken of captured and trophy heads, curated crania, symbolic flying heads, head... -
The Wounds of Exclusion: Poverty, Women's Health, and Social Justice by Colleen Reid
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This participant observer study chronicles the stories of a group of poor Canadian women, their experience with exclusion by health and social service providers, and their involvement in a feminist... -
Auditory Archaeology: Understanding Sound and Hearing in the Past by Steve Mills 9781611320800
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Auditory archaeology considers the potential contribution of everyday, mundane and unintentional sounds in the past and how these may have been significant to people. Steve Mills explores ways of... -
Inconvenient Heritage: Erasure and Global Tourism in Luang Prabang by Lynne M. Dearborn 9781598744361
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The major international recognition of a World Heritage Site designation can bring important preservation efforts and a wealth of tourist dollars to an impoverished area-but it can also have... -
Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic by Rob Swigart
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14A Turkish farmer finds a large obsidian mirror on top of a mound. How did it get there? What did it mean for its creator, and what does it mean for us? In this teaching novel by writer Rob Swigart,... -
Messages: An Introduction to Communication by Arthur Asa Berger
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This brief introductory textbook to the field of communication offers the advantages of Arthur Asa Berger's informal writing style and flair for popular culture examples aimed to engage students... -
Connections and Complexity: New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia by Shinu Anna Abraham 9781598746877
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44This compilation of original research articles highlight the important cross-regional, cross-chronological, and comparative approaches to political and economic landscapes in ancient South Asia and... -
Archaeological Field Schools: A Guide for Teaching in the Field by Jane Eva Baxter 9781598740073
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The field school is often described as a "rite of passage" among archaeologists. They are considered essential for the appropriate training of students for academic or professional ... -
African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage by Katharina Schramm 9781598745146
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly "come home" to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis... -
Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil Sidney M Greenfield 9781598743685
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14"The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man... -
Our Unprotected Heritage: Whitewashing the Destruction of our Cultural and Natural Environment by Thomas F. King
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Most Americans agree that our heritage-both natural and cultural-should be protected. Then why does development run rampant, aided-rather than limited-by government inaction? Tom King has been a... -
AIDS, Behavior, and Culture: Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention by Edward C. Green
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14AIDS, Behavior, and Culture presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of "the global AIDS industry" and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV... -
Strung Out on Archaeology: An Introduction to Archaeological Research by Laurie A. Wilkie
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Teaching the basic principles of archaeology through an "excavation" and analysis of New Orleans Mardi Gras parades and the beads thrown there? A student's dream book! Award-winning... -
Controversies in Archaeology Alice Beck Kehoe 9781598740622
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Atlantis, ancient astronauts, and pyramid power. Archaeologists are perennially bombarded with questions about the "mysteries" of the past. They are also constantly addressing more... -
Immigrants in America: Museums & Social Issues 3:2 Thematic Issue by Kris Morrissey
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14This book focuses on new patterns of settlement, emphasizing the economic factors and types of industries drawing immigrants away from gateway areas in America. It highlights prejudice while... -
Prescribing HIV Prevention: Bringing Culture into Global Health Communication by Nicola Bulled 9781611323627
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.85Critical health communication scholars point out that the acceptance of HIV risk prevention methods are bound inside inequitable structures of power and knowledge. Nicola Bulled's in-depth... -
Protecting Catalhoeyuk: Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard by Sadrettin Dural
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99They are essential to every major archaeological excavation but rarely acknowledged by the visiting researchers once the artifacts have been shipped. As part of the innovative, multivocal output from... -
On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine Roland Littlewood 9781598742756
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are... -
Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature: Knowledge Binds and Institutional Conflicts by Anne Ross
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Involving Indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge into natural resource management produces more equitable and successful outcomes. Unfortunately, argue Anne Ross and co-authors, even many... -
Dirty Diggers: Tales from the Archaeological Trenches Paul Bahn 9781611329780
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Tired of the airbrushed images of archaeologists in TV documentaries? Want the dirt on what REALLY happens on a dig? Paul Bahn has collected dozens of fun tales from the trenches to illuminate what... -
Pedagogy of Solidarity Paulo Freire 9781611329650
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on the importance of community solidarity in moving toward social justice in schools and society. In a set of talks... -
Institution Wide Interpretive Planning: Journal of Museum Education 33:3 Thematic Issue by Judith Koke
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54Sponsored by the Museum Education RoundtableBook InformationISBN 9781598748062Author Judith KokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Left Coast Press IncPublisher Left Coast Press IncWeight(grams)... -
Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach by Dwight W. Read 9781598741032
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural... -
Waging War, Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights by Barbara Rose Johnston 9781598743449
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Humans are good at making war-and much less successful at making peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently... -
Archaeology of the Southwest, Second Edition by Linda S. Cordell
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.89The second edition of this well-known textbook on Southwestern archaeology provides a coherent and comprehensive summary of the major themes and topics central to modern interpretation and practice... -
Historical Racialized Toys in the United States by Christopher P. Barton 9781629581958
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.74This book explores the history of children's toys and games bearing racial stereotypes, and the role these objects played in the creation and maintenance of structures of racialism and racism in the...