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Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology by Vered Amit
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £63.16Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed... -
Youth Cultures: A Cross-cultural Perspective by Vered Amit
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.07First published in 1995, Youth Cultures critically studies an anthropologically neglected population: the youth. The book broadens the scope for analysing young people's behaviour by moving away from... -
Young Men in Uncertain Times by Vered Amit 9781782383123
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men. Its grounded and comparative empiricism provides the opportunity to move beyond... -
Young Men in Uncertain Times by Vered Amit 9780857452498
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men. Its grounded and comparative empiricism provides the opportunity to move beyond... -
Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality by Vered Amit 9780745329031
Booksplease Price: £31.52Do 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... -
Constructing the Field: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World by Vered Amit
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork... -
Youth Cultures: A Cross-cultural Perspective Vered Amit 9781032367217
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81First published in 1995, Youth Cultures critically studies an anthropologically neglected population: the youth. The book broadens the scope for analysing young people's behaviour by moving away from... -
Mobility and Cosmopolitanism: Complicating the interaction between aspiration and practice by Vered Amit
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In academic descriptions of cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction often recurs. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane... -
Realizing Community: Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments by Vered Amit 9780415229081
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea... -
Thinking Through Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts by Vered Amit 9781782385851
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational... -
Thinking Through Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts Vered Amit 9781785338137
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational... -
The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity by Vered Amit 9780745317465
Booksplease Price: £31.52'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption of much social science has been that humans belong in communities, as social and cultural beings. The trouble with... -
Going First Class?: New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement Vered Amit 9781845451967
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16People travel as never before. However, anthropological research on movement has tended to focus on labor migration. By contrast, this volume explores a diversity of circumstances and motives towards... -
Going First Class?: New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement Vered Amit 9780857451514
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.16"The publication of this book...is timely...Interesting and accessibly written, Going First Class? offers not only ethnographically rich reflections on the subject of privileged travel, but...it... -
Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements by Vered Amit 9781789207248
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.57Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the rate at which... -
Re-Situating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture by Vered Amit-Talai 9781551110714
Booksplease Price: £23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551110714Author Vered Amit-TalaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher... -
Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts by Laurie Shannon
Booksplease Price: £28.55Renaissance formulations of friendship typically cast the friend as "another self" and idealized a pair of friends as "one soul in two bodies." Laurie Shannon's Sovereign Amity puts this stress on... -
Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts by Laurie Shannon 9780226749662
Booksplease Price: £91.54Renaissance formulations of friendship typically cast the friend as "another self" and idealized a pair of friends as "one soul in two bodies." Laurie Shannon's Sovereign Amity puts this stress on... -
Claiming Individuality: The Cultural Politics of Distinction by Vared Amit
Booksplease Price: £31.86Individuality is often interpreted as a force for the separation and autonomy of the individual. This book takes a different approach: it explores the expression of individuality as a form of social... -
Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Exchange by Julia Reinhard Lupton
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted... -
Dancing At the Crossroads: Memory and Mobility in Ireland by Helena Wulff 9781845453282
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland--until this practice was banned by law, the Public... -
Dancing At the Crossroads: Memory and Mobility in Ireland Helena Wulff 9781845455903
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.16Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland -- until this practice was banned by law, the Public... -
Lifestyle Migration: Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences by Michaela Benson
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination... -
An Anthropology of the Enlightenment: Moral Social Relations Then and Today Huon Wardle 9781350086593
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09In a time of intellectual uncertainty, the question of how we know what we do about human lives becomes ever more pressing. The essays collated in this volume argue that anthropology can be used to... -
Local Lives: Migration and the Politics of Place by Professor Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Local Lives contests dominant trends in migration theory, demonstrating that many migrant identities have not become entirely diasporic or cosmopolitan, but remain equally focused on emplaced... -
Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon: 2023 9788776943264
Booksplease Price: £87.89This is the first anthropological monograph of Muslim and Hindu lives in contemporary Myanmar. In it, Judith Beyer introduces the concept of "we-formation" as a fundamental yet underexplored capacity... -
Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.26This 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...