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The Hitman's Dilemma: Or Business, Personal and Impersonal by Keith Hart
Booksplease Price: £10.50"It's not personal; it's just business," says the professional killer to his victim. But business is always personal, and even though modern business corporations have been granted the legal status... -
What the Foucault? 6e Marshall Sahlins 9780996635547
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.58This is the long-awaited fifth edition of Marshall Sahlins' classic series of bon mots, ruminations, and musings on the ancients, anthropology, and much else in between. It's been twenty-five years... -
Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liber - Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of Colonialism Olufemi Taiwo 9781734643527
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.03An argument against the idea of the indigenous chief as a liberal political figure. Across Africa, it is not unusual for proponents of liberal democracy and modernization to make room for some... -
Grievance: In Fragments Grant Farred 9781734643541
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.03Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance. Grievance is an American mode of being that can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence, that is at the root of the Civil War and... -
!["Culture" and Culture: Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Rights by Manuela Carneiro Da Cunha](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1028356/1028062/9780976147565__42583.1694827836.jpg?c=1 ""Culture" and Culture: Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Rights by Manuela Carneiro Da Cunha")
"Culture" and Culture: Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Rights by Manuela Carneiro Da Cunha
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.37Brazilian anthropologist Manuela Carneiro da Cunha examines here the complex meaning-and anthropological implications-of the word "culture" for indigenous peoples. Caneiro da Cunha explores the... -
The Treadmill Affect: Capitalism, Subjectivity, and the Present Benjamin Lee 9781734643572
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.03A critical synthesis of the work of Lauren Berlant, Moishe Postone, and Michael Silverstein.The Treadmill Affect draws upon the work of three University of Chicago professors, each a former program... -
The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party Rick Perlstein 9780976147503
Booksplease Price: £10.50A majority of Americans tell pollsters they want more government intervention to reduce the gap between high- and lower-income citizens, and less than one-third consider high taxes to be a problem... -
Data - Now Bigger and Better! Genevieve Bell 9780984201068
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.40Data is too big to be left to the data analysts. Data: Now Bigger and Better! brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology-frameworks that... -
The Law in Shambles by Thomas Geoghegan
Booksplease Price: £14.05It's an enduring axiom: before there is democracy, there is rule of law. Thomas Geoghegan argues here in his lively pamphlet that as the pillars of the American legal system are crumbling, so too is... -
The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul - The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-Century Brazil by Eduardo Viveiro De Castro 9780984201013
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.03In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the... -
2001 Accounting - Kubrick, Nietzsche and Anthropology by Bruce Kapferer 9780984201051
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.07Despite mixed critical reception, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey mesmerized audiences at the time of its initial screening in 1968 and went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of... -
Making Kin not Population - Reconceiving Generations by Adele Clark 9780996635561
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.56As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and... -
Science of Myths and Vice Versa by Gregory Schrempp 9780996635509
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.46We often assume that science and myth stand in opposition-with science providing empirically supported truths that replace the false ideas found in traditional mythologies. But the rhetoric of... -
The Ecology of Others Question of Nature Philippe Descola 9780984201020
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.03Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks... -
Reading Together Katarzyna Bartoszynska 9781958846148
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £9.64A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read. In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszynska thinks back on various book clubs she has... -
The Culture of Ethics by Franco La Cecla 9780984201044
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.53What is ethics? Is it a system of transcendent moral imperatives, or can it be produced by ordinary people in everyday life? Do the daily rules of interaction constitute a code of ethics? In The... -
The Jewish Question Again by Joyce Dalsheim
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.03Anti-Semitism is on the rise. How is this still possible? Once again, we are witness to a surge in right-wing authoritarianism, ethnonationalism, and white supremacism, and the racist, xenophobic,... -
The Gift Paradigm - A Short Introduction to the Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences by Alain Caille
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.03In his classic essay The Gift, Marcel Mauss argued that gifts can never be truly free; rather, they bring about an expectation of reciprocal exchange. For over one hundred years, his ideas on... -
Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA by Grant Farred
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.40In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketball Association, for instance, was recently home to a new kind of racial conflict. After a recent... -
The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human Condition by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.60Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that... -
Pacification and Its Discontents by Kurt Jacobsen
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.44As George W. Bush's Iraq mission unraveled, U.S. policy elites revived counterinsurgency doctrines - known in an earlier incarnation as pacification. The new edition of the "Counterinsurgency Field... -
Understanding Media: A Popular Philosophy by Dominic Boyer
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.48Why do we understand media the way we do? In their simplest forms, media are means of communication and instruments of human creativity. But on another level, news outlets are powerful entities that... -
American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain by Roberto J. Gonzalez 9780979405747
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.54Politicians, pundits, and Pentagon officials are singing the praises of a kinder, gentler American counterinsurgency. Some claim that counterinsurgency is so sophisticated and effective that it is... -
Making Trouble - Surrealism and the Human Sciences by Derek Sayer
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.40Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge," an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new... -
Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism and the War on Terror by Bruce Holsinger 9780976147596
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.37President Bush was roundly criticized for likening America's antiterrorism measures to a "crusade" in 2001. Far from just a gaffe, however, such medievalism has become a dominant paradigm for... -
Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share by James Ferguson 9781734643510
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.03In precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable. Yet the inadequacy of the nation-state frame of membership that such schemes... -
Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism by Danny Postel
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.48The Iran depicted in the headlines is a rogue state ruled by ever-more-defiant Islamic fundamentalists. Yet inside the borders, an unheralded transformation of a wholly different political bent is... -
Time and Human Language Now by Jonathan Boyarin 9780979405730
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.40What can you say after you say that the world - or at least human life on it - looks like it's nearing its end? How about starting with wonder at the possibility that dialogue and subjectivity, the... -
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe Matti Bunzl 9780976147589
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.53The apparent resurgence of hostility toward Jews has been a prominent theme in recent discussions of Europe; at the same time, the adversities faced by the continent's Muslim population have received... -
Pastoral in Palestine Neil Hertz 9780984201037
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.51For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. The conflict is often considered a calculated landgrab, but this characterization does... -
Community of Scholars, Community of Teachers by Judith Shapiro 9780984201099
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.27Academics routinely engage with colleagues in the research community as a critical part of their work. But, although many researchers are also dedicated teachers, teaching tends to be seen as a... -
The Great Debate about Art by Roy Harris 9780984201006
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.48In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of 'art for art's sake'. Attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by... -
Are the Humanities Inconsequent?: Interpreting Marx's Riddle of the Dog by Jerome McGann
Booksplease Price: £10.84Adapting the discontinuous and multitonal critical procedures of works like Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" and Laura Riding's "Anarchism Is Not Enough", in this pamphlet Jerome McGann subjects current... -
Museum, Inc.: Inside the Global Art World Paul Werner 9780976147510
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.33Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever. "Museum, Inc." describes the new... -
The Science of Passionate Interests: An Introduction to Gabriel Tarde's Economic Anthropology Bruno Latour (Ecoles des mines, Paris , France) 9780979405778
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.27How can economics become genuinely quantitative? This is the question that French sociologist Gabriel Tarde tackled at the end of his career, and in this pamphlet, Bruno Latour and Vincent Antonin... -
Subaltern Studies 2.0 – Being against the Capitalocene by Milinda Banerjee
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.10On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for security... -
Pasta and Pizza by Franco La Cecla 9780979405716
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.48Pasta and pizza, in all their infinitely delicious and universally appealing varieties, are inextricably connected to Italian identity. These familiar foods not only represent Italy's culinary... -
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"Man-with Variations" - Interviews with Franz Boas and Colleagues, 1937 by Joseph Mitchell 9780996635516
RRP: £9.50Booksplease Price: £8.86"The most interesting human beings, so far as talk is concerned, are anthropologists, farmers, prostitutes, psychiatrists, and the occasional bartender." So wrote Joseph Mitchell, the legendary New... -
Complicities - The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism by Arif Dirlik 9780996635530
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.51As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order... -
Confucius Institutes - Academic Malware Marshall Sahlins 9780984201082
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.27In recent years, Confucius Institutes have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred across the United States. At first glance, this seems like a...