Social & cultural anthropology books

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The Nahua: Language and Culture from the 16th Century to the Present

The Nahua: Language and Culture from the 16th Century...

Author: Galen Brokaw ,  Pablo Garcia Loaeza
ISBN: 9781646425778
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Revealing the resiliency of Nahua culture and language while highlighting the adaptations and changes they have...  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: 9780226833613
Format: Paperback
$47.95

"A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures....  Read More >>

Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean

Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the...

Author: Allison O. Ramsay, University of the West In ,  Jerome Teelucksingh
ISBN: 9781666943979
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This essay collection addresses past and current debates surrounding colonial relics and monuments, colonial vestiges,...  Read More >>

North Korean Migrants in China: Whether Illegal Migrants, Refugees, or Human Trafficking Victims

North Korean Migrants in China: Whether Illegal Migrants,...

Author: Hyoungah Park
ISBN: 9781793627544
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Hyoungah Park interviews fifty-eight North Korean migrants in China and analyzes their stories, exploring why they...  Read More >>

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State...

Author: Friedrich Engels
ISBN: 9798211413023
Format: Paperback
$39.57

This work has an introduction from Ichele Barratt, one of Britain's leading feminist writers, who discusses the...  Read More >>

The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups, Volume 2-1 Appendices

The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the...

Author: William C. Young
ISBN: 9789004690394
Format: Hardback
$287.76

In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups that are named after wolves, birds, and plants. Why these names?...  Read More >>

Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy

Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space...

Author: Grazia Ting Deng
ISBN: 9780691245799
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly...  Read More >>

Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe

Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe...

Author: Myriam Arcangeli
ISBN: 9780813080581
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Examines potsherds from four colonial sites in the Antillean island of Guadeloupe to discover what these everyday...  Read More >>

Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology: Pioneers and Discourses

Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology: Pioneers...

Author: Iryna Dovhalyuk ,  Tamila Dzhani-zade
ISBN: 9783205219170
Format: Hardback
$229.68

New perspectives on the early European history of what was later coined as “ethnomusicology”.  Read More >>

Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplines

Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture:...

Author: Gaëlle Ouvrein ,  Ana Jorge
ISBN: 9781666922431
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine

Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian...

Author: Natalia Gutkowski
ISBN: 9781503636828
Format: Hardback
$248.99

Time is central to agriculture, in growing seasons, harvesting cycles, and market temporalities. The mediation of...  Read More >>

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the...

Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
ISBN: 9781517916237
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America American Disgust shows...  Read More >>

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Author: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
ISBN: 9780691238777
Format: Hardback
$54.99

A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for...  Read More >>

The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public

The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American...

Author: Emily Thorson ,  Emily Durante
ISBN: 9798874761431
Format: Audio
$105.57

"In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation...  Read More >>

The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public

The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American...

Author: Emily Thorson ,  Emily Durante
ISBN: 9798874761448
Format: Audio
$121.31

"In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation...  Read More >>

Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy

Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space...

Author: Grazia Ting Deng
ISBN: 9780691245782
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly...  Read More >>

The Thousand and One Days: "A Companion to the ""Arabian Nights"""

The Thousand and One Days: "A Companion to the ""Arabian...

Author: Miss Pardoe
ISBN: 9789357945189
Format: Paperback
$59.00

"The Thousand and One Days: A Companion to the ""Arabian Nights"", is a classical and a rare book, that has been...  Read More >>

Sport in der totalen Institution – eine Gefängnisethnographie

Sport in der totalen Institution – eine Gefängnisethnographie...

Author: Johannes Müller
ISBN: 9783658437527
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Die Befunde zeigen, dass sich Sport für einen Teil der männlichen Insassen als Bewältigungsstrategie zur Linderung...  Read More >>

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