Social & cultural anthropology books

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Ancestral Future

Ancestral Future

Author: Ailton Krenak ,  Alex Brostoff
ISBN: 9781509560738
Format: Paperback
$26.95

In response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social...  Read More >>

Ancestral Future

Ancestral Future

Author: Ailton Krenak ,  Alex Brostoff
ISBN: 9781509560721
Format: Hardback
$82.95

In response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social...  Read More >>

Conviviality in Burgaz: Living, Loving and Fighting on a Diverse Island of Istanbul

Conviviality in Burgaz: Living, Loving and Fighting...

Author: Deniz N. Duru
ISBN: 9783031523366
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions,...  Read More >>

The Korean Welfare State: Social Investment in an Aging Society

The Korean Welfare State: Social Investment in an Aging...

Author: Kyungbae Chung (, President of the Korean Socio-Economic Society) ,  Neil Gilbert (, Milton and Gertrude Chernin Chair in Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780197644928
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This book examines the evolution of the Korean welfare state over the last several decades and the challenges it...  Read More >>

Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

Author: Timothy D. Taylor
ISBN: 9781478030355
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Timothy D. Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value to examine how people’s conceptions...  Read More >>

Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health...

Author: Charles L. Briggs
ISBN: 9781478026006
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Charles L. Briggs examines and challenges the long-standing foundational concepts in the communication of health...  Read More >>

Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

Author: Timothy D. Taylor
ISBN: 9781478026143
Format: Hardback
$271.79

Timothy D. Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value to examine how people’s conceptions...  Read More >>

Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health...

Author: Charles L. Briggs
ISBN: 9781478025788
Format: Hardback
$284.99

Charles L. Briggs examines and challenges the long-standing foundational concepts in the communication of health...  Read More >>

How French Moderns Think: The Lévy-Bruhl Family, From “Primitive Mentality” to Contemporary Pandemics

How French Moderns Think: The Lévy-Bruhl Family, From...

Author: Frédéric Keck ,  Michael M. J. Fischer
ISBN: 9781914363023
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century...  Read More >>

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide...

Author: Shakirah E. Hudani
ISBN: 9780226832722
Format: Paperback
$53.95

"An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor...  Read More >>

Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History

Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History

Author: Marc Millon
ISBN: 9781911723073
Format: Hardback
$44.99

A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change.  Read More >>

Mild Altered States of Consciousness: Subtle Shifts of Mind and Their Therapeutic Potential

Mild Altered States of Consciousness: Subtle Shifts...

Author: Eileen Sheppard
ISBN: 9783031534515
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness...  Read More >>

Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation...

Author: Sarahh Scher ,  Billie J. A. Follensbee
ISBN: 9780813080543
Format: Paperback
$110.88

"From Olmec costume switching to Peruvian bundle burials we see which types of power were gendered, which symbols...  Read More >>

Fighting Words!: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression

Fighting Words!: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression...

Author: Eric Louis Russell
ISBN: 9781032130538
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Fighting Words! is a critical exploration of all kinds of “bad language” and how that language shapes, reinforces,...  Read More >>

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide...

Author: Shakirah E. Hudani
ISBN: 9780226832739
Format: Hardback
$163.95

"An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor...  Read More >>

Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives

Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the...

Author: Laura Menin
ISBN: 9780815638308
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Moving between public and clandestine interactions and within online environments, Quest for Love in Central Morocco...  Read More >>

Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies: An Archaeology of Human Resilience

Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies: An Archaeology...

Author: Scott M. Fitzpatrick ,  Jon M. Erlandson
ISBN: 9780813069975
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Explores the impacts humans have made on island and coastal ecosystems and the ways these environments have adapted...  Read More >>

Fighting Words!: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression

Fighting Words!: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression...

Author: Eric Louis Russell
ISBN: 9781032130545
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Fighting Words! is a critical exploration of all kinds of “bad language” and how that language shapes, reinforces,...  Read More >>

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