Social & cultural anthropology books

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Pokot Pastoralism: Environmental Change and Socio-Economic Transformation in North-West Kenya

Pokot Pastoralism: Environmental Change and Socio-Economic...

Author: Hauke-Peter Vehrs (Person)
ISBN: 9781847013767
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments...  Read More >>

Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough

Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough...

Author: Paula Bialski
ISBN: 9780691257167
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech company...  Read More >>

Using Visual Technology in Educational Ethnography: Theory, Method and the Visual

Using Visual Technology in Educational Ethnography:...

Author: Rita Chawla-Duggan
ISBN: 9780367429904
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Introducing readers to debates underpinning the uses of visual technology in educational ethnography, this book...  Read More >>

Cultivating Livability: Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru

Cultivating Livability: Food, Class, and the Urban Future...

Author: Camille Frazier
ISBN: 9781517914998
Format: Paperback
$49.99

What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation In recent years, the...  Read More >>

Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice

Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist...

Author: David J. Mozina ,  Lai Chi Tim
ISBN: 9780824898670
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This richly textured study asks how the Banner Rite works or fails to work in its own terms. How do the cosmological,...  Read More >>

Covid-19 and Global Inequalities: Vulnerable Humans

Covid-19 and Global Inequalities: Vulnerable Humans...

Author: Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
ISBN: 9781032284477
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book provides a timely autoethnography tracing the spread Covid-19 as it emerged and travelled across the world....  Read More >>

Resisting Olympic Evictions: Contesting Space in Rio De Janeiro

Resisting Olympic Evictions: Contesting Space in Rio...

Author: Adam Talbot
ISBN: 9781526156297
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Resisting Olympic evictions explores how one favela mobilised urban space to contest the logic underpinning removals...  Read More >>

Displacing Theory Through the Global South

Displacing Theory Through the Global South

Author: Iracema Dulley ,  �zg�n Eyl�l İşcen
ISBN: 9783965580664
Format: Hardback
$110.88

Displacing Theory Through the Global South calls for reflection on the historical and geopolitical inequalities...  Read More >>

Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough

Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough...

Author: Paula Bialski
ISBN: 9780691257150
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech company...  Read More >>

Covid-19 and Global Inequalities: Vulnerable Humans

Covid-19 and Global Inequalities: Vulnerable Humans...

Author: Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
ISBN: 9781032284453
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book provides a timely autoethnography tracing the spread Covid-19 as it emerged and travelled across the world....  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: 9780226832616
Format: Hardback
$190.95

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The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts: Colophons and Marginal Notes

The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts: Colophons and...

Author: Saloumeh Gholami
ISBN: 9783752007541
Format: Hardback
$591.36

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Three Hundred Things A Bright Boy Can Do

Three Hundred Things A Bright Boy Can Do

Author: Harold Armitage
ISBN: 9789357933568
Format: Paperback
$68.35

Three Hundred Things A Bright Boy Can Do, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout...  Read More >>

Mountain Craft

Mountain Craft

Author: Geoffrey Winthrop Young
ISBN: 9789357959513
Format: Paperback
$81.39

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial...

Author: Chloe Ahmann
ISBN: 9780226833590
Format: Hardback
$190.95

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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: 9780295752273
Format: Paperback
$64.99

"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: 9781478030386
Format: Paperback
$76.43

This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to...  Read More >>

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

This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to...  Read More >>

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 >>

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