Anthropology books

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Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change...

Author: Yong-Chool Ha ,  Clark W. Sorensen
ISBN: 9780295752266
Format: Hardback
$216.99

"South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebol (family-owned business conglomerates)...  Read More >>

Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures

Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations,...

Author: Margot Weiss
ISBN: 9781478026150
Format: Hardback
$284.99

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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Author: Fuchsia Dunlop
ISBN: 9780141997216
Format: Paperback
$27.99

"An NPR 2023 ""Books We Love"" Pick • A Food & Wine Best Food of 2023 • A Financial Times Best Food and Drink Book...  Read More >>

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Author: Heikki Uimonen (University of Eastern Finland) ,  Kaarina Kilpiö (University of the Arts Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781009374675
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. It...  Read More >>

Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana

Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among...

Author: Giorgio Scalici (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy,)
ISBN: 9781350236257
Format: Hardback
$170.00

"""This book explores how the Wana people use music and religion to control their emotions in situations of emotional...  Read More >>

Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black

Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive,...

Author: Rahsaan Mahadeo
ISBN: 9781501774218
Format: Paperback
$86.99

"""Funk the Clock reveals how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how race, racialization, and racism...  Read More >>

Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning

Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for...

Author: Susan D. Blum
ISBN: 9781501774744
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines ""schoolishness""...  Read More >>

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference...

Author: Andrew M. Gardner
ISBN: 9781501775017
Format: Paperback
$73.79

"""This book is concerned with how the extraordinary demography and proportions of migration and how global human...  Read More >>

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions...

Author: Adam Kuper
ISBN: 9780593700679
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A contemplation of the hotly-debated significance - and future - of anthropology museums, from a global expert  Read More >>

The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office

The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens...

Author: Ilana Gershon
ISBN: 9780226832630
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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A Nation's Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era

A Nation's Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness...

Author: Tracey Owens Patton
ISBN: 9780814259078
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Blends family history, rhetorical postmemory studies, critical adoption studies, and more to disrupt standard narratives...  Read More >>

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Author: Heikki Uimonen (University of Eastern Finland) ,  Kaarina Kilpiö (University of the Arts Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781009486934
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. It...  Read More >>

The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females

The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females...

Author: Kevin Lee Teather
ISBN: 9780198886730
Format: Paperback
$63.95

Written from an evolutionary perspective, The Evolution of Sex emphasizes the idea that males and females are influenced...  Read More >>

A Biography of Our Sun: From Ancient Myths and Artifacts to Modern Art and Astrophysics

A Biography of Our Sun: From Ancient Myths and Artifacts...

Author: Laura Pesce
ISBN: 9783031547287
Format: Paperback
$73.89

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The Trials of Gaia: Milestones in the Evolution of Earth with Reference to the Anthropocene

The Trials of Gaia: Milestones in the Evolution of Earth...

Author: Andrew Yoram Glikson
ISBN: 9783031237119
Format: Paperback
$100.29

The book updates earlier accounts regarding extreme weather events and mass extinctions. The book “The Trials of...  Read More >>

Being There, but How?: On the Transformation of Presence in (Post-)Pandemic Times

Being There, but How?: On the Transformation of Presence...

Author: Sebastian Dumling ,  Zhenwei Wang
ISBN: 9783837668803
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This book launches a conversation between social sciences and humanities on how this change affects human experience....  Read More >>

Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine: Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential

Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine: Imagining...

Author: Bernhard Hadolt ,  Andrea Stockl
ISBN: 9783837667622
Format: Paperback
$90.95

This book uses the tools of medical anthropology to address the pragmatics of hope and uncertainty within the health...  Read More >>

Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black

Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive,...

Author: Rahsaan Mahadeo
ISBN: 9781501774201
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""Funk the Clock reveals how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how race, racialization, and racism...  Read More >>

Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing

Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing...

Author: Denielle Elliott ,  Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
ISBN: 9781517916138
Format: Hardback
$306.24

Creative and diverse approaches to ethnographic knowledge production and writing   Ethnographic research has...  Read More >>

Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning

Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for...

Author: Susan D. Blum
ISBN: 9781501774188
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines ""schoolishness""...  Read More >>

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