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A History of Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.03This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of 'Enlightenment', 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' anthropology, from the... -
What is Anthropology? by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $158.26Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered... -
A History of Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745333533
Booksplease Price: $167.02This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of 'Enlightenment', 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' anthropology, from the... -
What is Anthropology? by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745399652
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.72Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered... -
Globalization: The Key Concepts Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780857857422
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.19For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics. Ours is an era of ubiquitous mobile communication,... -
Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745320595
Booksplease Price: $57.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745336343
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.57The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know... -
Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745335353
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $51.29Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. This intellectual history traces the development of Barth's ideas and explores the substance of his contributions. In... -
Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745336398
Booksplease Price: $167.02The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know... -
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745330426
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.49Is ethnicity a result of cultural differences? Is ethnicity dependent on the practical use and belief in cultural differences? Drawing on a wide-range of classic and recent studies in anthropology... -
Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745338279
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $135.60Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the 'overheated' world: prosperous yet... -
Engaging Anthropology: The Case for a Public Presence Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9781845200657
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $69.11Anthropology ought to have changed the world. What went wrong? Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and respect it deserves in the... -
Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745338262
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $46.88Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the 'overheated' world: prosperous yet... -
Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745399126
Booksplease Price: $35.45The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is... -
Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.66This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of... -
Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa: An Axel Sommerfelt Collection by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9781805392897
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $166.06Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly... -
Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745317748
Booksplease Price: $61.46The turn of the millennium is characterised by exponential growth in everything related to communication - from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with the most... -
Anthropology Now and Next: Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9781782384496
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $166.65The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. He has contributed to the understanding of urban life and transnational networks, and the role of... -
Common Denominators: Ethnicity, Nation-Building and Compromise in Mauritius Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9781859739594
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08This book seeks to enhance comparative understandings of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization... -
Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo, Norway) 9780415458542
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $118.83Although the symbolic and political importance of flags has often been mentioned by scholars of nationalism, there are few in-depth studies of the significance of flags for national identities. This... -
An Overheated World: An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-first Century by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780367229979
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $85.68Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-century - a period sometimes spoken of... -
The Big Here and the Long Now: From Global Uniformity to the New Diversities Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745352220
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.72For thousands of years, humanity's story was one of diversification. Across centuries and continents our species proliferated new approaches to family and community life; to agriculture, economics,... -
Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745330495 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $5.17This concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture. The text provides a clear overview of... -
Knowing from the Indigenous North: Sámi Approaches to History, Politics and Belonging by Sanna Valkonen
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01Focusing on the Sapmi region of Northern Europe as a point of departure, this book enriches and sharpens the concept of 'the North.' It combines detailed empirical research on the Sami people and... -
Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life: Interdisciplinary perspectives by Karen Lykke Syse 9781138212466
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world... -
Sociology of Globalization: Cultures, Economies, and Politics by Keri E. Iyall Smith 9780813346694
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29A rich collection of diverse voices, Sociology of Globalization examines the processes of globalization as well as its impact on people around the world. It looks beyond the headlines, stereotypes,... -
Anthropology of Our Times: An Edited Anthology in Public Anthropology by Sindre Bangstad 9781137538482
Booksplease Price: $157.40This anthology represents the culmination of a series of public discussions with some of the leading international anthropologists of today -organized by the editor, Sindre Bangstad-at the House of... -
Anthropology of Our Times: An Edited Anthology in Public Anthropology by Sindre Bangstad 9781349711499
Booksplease Price: $109.43This anthology represents the culmination of a series of public discussions with some of the leading international anthropologists of today -organized by the editor, Sindre Bangstad-at the House of... -
Celebrating 40 Years of Ethnic and Racial Studies: Classic Papers in Context by Martin Bulmer
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.95This volume celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Ethnic and Racial Studies. It reproduces eleven classic papers published in the journal, accompanied by discussions of each paper by invited... -
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City by Setha Low 9780367659752
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $91.24The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an 'engaged' approach to urban... -
Globalization and Sport Richard Giulianotti (University of Durham) 9781405162692
RRP: $40.46Booksplease Price: $38.88Globalization and Sport is a unique collection which places sport at the heart of debates on global processes. Features major critical interventions by some of the world's leading sociologists and... -
The Challenge of Minority Integration: Politics and Policies in the Nordic Nations by Peter A. Kraus 9783110441109
RRP: $123.83Booksplease Price: $111.13How is solidarity achieved in highly diverse societies - particularly those that have been until recently characterized by rather homogeneous populations? What are the implications of growing levels... -
Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition: Perspectives from Northern Europe by Sharam Alghasi
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21Explicitly comparative in its approach, Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition discusses central issues regarding multiculturalism in today's Europe, based on studies of Norway and the Netherlands... -
Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality by Vered Amit 9780745329031
Booksplease Price: $61.46Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole? This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses... -
State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives by Christian Krohn-Hansen 9780745324418
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $51.29What is the 'state' and how can we best study it? This book investigates new ways of analysing the state. The contributors argue that the state is not a fixed and definite object. Our perceptions... -
Anthropology: Why It Matters Tim Ingold 9781509519798
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $70.79Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that... -
Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating by Astrid B. Stensrud 9780745339573
Booksplease Price: $167.02Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key... -
Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating Astrid B. Stensrud 9780745339566
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $46.88Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key... -
Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City: On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put by Tone Huse
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city... -
Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value - New Edition Michael Thompson 9780745399782
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.42Rubbish is something we ignore. By definition we discard it, from our lives and our minds, and it remains outside the concerns of conventional economics. However, this book explores the dynamics...