Social & cultural anthropology books

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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch...

Author: Simon Schama ,  Mike Cooper
ISBN: 9798228305816
Format: Audio
$158.27

This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it...  Read More >>

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch...

Author: Simon Schama ,  Mike Cooper
ISBN: 9798228305809
Format: Audio
$158.37

This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it...  Read More >>

Conversations with Tim Ingold: Anthropology, education and life

Conversations with Tim Ingold: Anthropology, education...

Author: Tim Ingold ,  Robert Gibb
ISBN: 9781917341004
Format: Paperback
$105.57

This book is a collection of interviews conducted over two years, providing an engaging and comprehensive account...  Read More >>

Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between...

Author: David Henig ,  Anna Strhan
ISBN: 9781805397359
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic...  Read More >>

Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient...

Author: Alex C. Oehler
ISBN: 9781805397250
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals...  Read More >>

Selfishness and Selflessness: New Approaches to Understanding Morality

Selfishness and Selflessness: New Approaches to Understanding...

Author: Linda L. Layne
ISBN: 9781805397229
Format: Paperback
$72.32

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever....  Read More >>

Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus

Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's...

Author: Moshe Shokeid
ISBN: 9781805397212
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics...  Read More >>

Nourishing Life: Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

Nourishing Life: Foodways and Humanity in an African...

Author: Arianna Huhn
ISBN: 9781805397243
Format: Paperback
$72.32

In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors...  Read More >>

Masculinity and Mental Health of Muslim Men of Colour: Diaspora and Intersectionality of Canadian Youth

Masculinity and Mental Health of Muslim Men of Colour:...

Author: Mustahid Husain
ISBN: 9783031686856
Format: Hardback
$90.54

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The Mongols: A History: From Genghis Khan to World Empire - The Rise and Fall of the Mongol Civilization

The Mongols: A History: From Genghis Khan to World Empire...

Author: Jeremiah Curtin
ISBN: 9782322542475
Format: Paperback
$123.82

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Conversations with Tim Ingold: Anthropology, education and life

Conversations with Tim Ingold: Anthropology, education...

Author: Tim Ingold ,  Robert Gibb
ISBN: 9781917341035
Format: Hardback
$174.21

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Playing the Hand We Are Dealt: The Counterpoint of Fate and Freewill in Literature and Life

Playing the Hand We Are Dealt: The Counterpoint of Fate...

Author: Michael Jackson
ISBN: 9781805397045
Format: Hardback
$269.10

The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than...  Read More >>

Tactical Citizenships: Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus

Tactical Citizenships: Encounters with Everyday State...

Author: Theodoros Kouros
ISBN: 9781805396802
Format: Hardback
$238.05

The idea of citizenship is formed through a dynamic and flexible set of relationships that go beyond a sequence...  Read More >>

An Ethnographic Chiefdom: Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989)

An Ethnographic Chiefdom: Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge...

Author: Nikola Balaš
ISBN: 9781805396741
Format: Hardback
$269.10

The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the...  Read More >>

Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins

Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins

Author: Moisés Kopper ,  Matthew A. Richmond
ISBN: 9781805396956
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Extreme inequalities, uneven planning, and unruly environments have long shaped individual and collective subjectivities...  Read More >>

Ethics of Belonging: Education, Religion, and Politics in Manado, Indonesia

Ethics of Belonging: Education, Religion, and Politics...

Author: Erica M. Larson
ISBN: 9780824899134
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Investigates the dynamics of ethical deliberation about religious coexistence. In this analysis, schools are understood...  Read More >>

Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa: Deliverance in Muslim and Christian Worlds

Charismatic Healers in Contemporary Africa: Deliverance...

Author: Sandra Fancello (National Center for Scientific Research, France) ,  Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350295483
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Based on ethnographic studies conducted in several African countries, this open access book analyses the phenomenon...  Read More >>

Encounters Beyond the Gallery: Relational Aesthetics and Cultural Difference

Encounters Beyond the Gallery: Relational Aesthetics...

Author: Renate Dohmen
ISBN: 9781350438033
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Despite the recent ""global turn"" in contemporary art, ethnic arts remain on the fringes of mainstream gallery,...  Read More >>

Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child

Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the...

Author: Shana Leodar Ye
ISBN: 9780472057009
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Examining the intersections of queer theory and the rise of China to reveal how queerness is “produced”  Read More >>

Naming No Man’s Land: Postcolonial Toponymies

Naming No Man’s Land: Postcolonial Toponymies

Author: Paul Carter
ISBN: 9783031606878
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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