Social & cultural anthropology books

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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

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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

A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically. In The Pandemic Workplace,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic...

Author: Lokangaka Losambe ,  Tanure Ojaide (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.)
ISBN: 9781032500461
Format: Hardback
$431.00

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational,...  Read More >>

Sociological Theory: From Comte to Postcolonialism

Sociological Theory: From Comte to Postcolonialism

Author: Alessandro Orsini
ISBN: 9783031525384
Format: Paperback
$184.77

The third part is devoted to Postmodern Theory, Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Theory, and Race Theory.The author...  Read More >>

Artistic Traditions of Inner Eurasian Cultures: Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Golden Ages

Artistic Traditions of Inner Eurasian Cultures: Prehistoric,...

Author: Ardi Kia
ISBN: 9781666918601
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale

The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical...

Author: Carlton D. Floyd ,  Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
ISBN: 9781793634139
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This book examines how rival interpretations of the American Dream poignantly express conflicts over its very meaning,...  Read More >>

The Relationship People: Mediating Love and Marriage in Twenty-First Century Japan

The Relationship People: Mediating Love and Marriage...

Author: Erika R Alpert
ISBN: 9781498594226
Format: Paperback
$68.99

The Relationship People examines the marriage industry and its clients in neoliberal Japan. It addresses what industry...  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 >>

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

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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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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 >>

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly Sounds

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly...

Author: Max Jack (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions)
ISBN: 9780197686911
Format: Hardback
$219.95

Insurgent Fandom offers a behind-the-scenes look at a transnational subculture known to few--ultra. Embracing a...  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

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Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability: Perspectives from Northeast India

Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability: Perspectives...

Author: Anjan Chakrabarti ,  Gorky Chakraborty
ISBN: 9789819714353
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This volume presents cutting-edge research on India's Northeast region relating to borders, material mobilities,...  Read More >>

Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey: A Critical Reading

Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey:...

Author: Petek Onur
ISBN: 9783031508745
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Countless aspects of Muslim women’s lives appear as symbols and indicators in this society like in many other Muslim...  Read More >>

Pan-India Stories of Informal Workers During Covid-19 Pandemic: Crisis Narratives

Pan-India Stories of Informal Workers During Covid-19...

Author: Deepanshu Mohan ,  Sakshi Chindaliya
ISBN: 9789819715244
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book aims to delve into the application of feminist ethnography by engaging with the lived experiences of vulnerable...  Read More >>

Making the Rural Urban: Inter-Class Dynamics to Protect the Environment in a Gentrifying Rural Town in Colombia

Making the Rural Urban: Inter-Class Dynamics to Protect...

Author: Sebastián Felipe Villamizar-Santamaría
ISBN: 9783031583346
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book takes the small rural town of La Calera, in the outskirts of the Colombian capital of Bogotá, as a case...  Read More >>

The Science of Sadness: A New Understanding of Emotion

The Science of Sadness: A New Understanding of Emotion...

Author: David Huron
ISBN: 9780262547772
Format: Paperback
$100.00

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Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders

Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others...

Author: Emrah Yildiz
ISBN: 9780520379831
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders

Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others...

Author: Emrah Yildiz
ISBN: 9780520379824
Format: Hardback
$140.95

"What is the value—religious, political, economic, or altogether social—of getting on a bus in Tehran for its travelers...  Read More >>

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