Social & cultural anthropology books

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Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

Author: Cathy Stanton
ISBN: 9781625348050
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Part memoir and part history lesson, Food Margins traces the tangled economic and political histories of the plantation,...  Read More >>

Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies...

Author: Mike Anastario ,  Elena Salamanca
ISBN: 9780816553372
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Focuses on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the milpas of the northern rural region...  Read More >>

Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique

Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and...

Author: Ilan Zvi Baron
ISBN: 9781399536967
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Combining political theory and sociological interviews spanning four countries, Ilan Zvi Baron explores the Jewish...  Read More >>

The Logic of Poverty: The Case of the Brazilian Northeast

The Logic of Poverty: The Case of the Brazilian Northeast...

Author: Simon Mitchell
ISBN: 9781032762593
Format: Hardback
$179.00

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Abortion Freedom: A Worldwide Movement

Abortion Freedom: A Worldwide Movement

Author: Colin Francome
ISBN: 9781032763811
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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The Hammam through Time and Space

The Hammam through Time and Space

Author: Julie Peteet
ISBN: 9780815638322
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle...  Read More >>

Indigenizing Archaeology: Putting Theory into Practice

Indigenizing Archaeology: Putting Theory into Practice...

Author: Emily C. Van Alst ,  Carlton Shield Chief Gover
ISBN: 9780813080338
Format: Paperback
$237.60

Highlights early-career Indigenous scholars conducting research in North America who are advancing the growing paradigm...  Read More >>

Fiestas in Laredo Volume 30: Matachines, Quinceañeras, and George Washington's Birthday

Fiestas in Laredo Volume 30: Matachines, Quinceañeras,...

Author: Norma E. Cantú
ISBN: 9781957720005
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Celebrates the many types of fiestas found in the border community of Laredo, Texas. Told from an insider’s perspective...  Read More >>

Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning

Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for...

Author: Susan D. Blum
ISBN: 9781501774744
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black

Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive,...

Author: Rahsaan Mahadeo
ISBN: 9781501774218
Format: Paperback
$86.99

"""Funk the Clock reveals how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how race, racialization, and racism...  Read More >>

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference...

Author: Andrew M. Gardner
ISBN: 9781501775017
Format: Paperback
$73.79

"""This book is concerned with how the extraordinary demography and proportions of migration and how global human...  Read More >>

Birds through Indigenous Eyes: Native Perspectives on Birds of the Eastern Woodlands

Birds through Indigenous Eyes: Native Perspectives on...

Author: Dennis Gaffin
ISBN: 9780691250847
Format: Hardback
$65.87

An intimate and personal account of the profound roles birds play in the lives of some Indigenous people For many...  Read More >>

From Tribal Society to Nation-State: A Survey of the National Development of Nigeria

From Tribal Society to Nation-State: A Survey of the...

Author: Liu Hongwu
ISBN: 9781433177248
Format: Hardback
$303.47

The book describes how Nigeria has developed from a traditional tribal society to a modern state over the past century....  Read More >>

Anthropological Investigations in Contemporary India: A cross-cultural perspective: India's Foundational Brushstrokes

Anthropological Investigations in Contemporary India:...

Author: C J Sonowal ,  Milonjyoti Borgohain
ISBN: 9789356214682
Format: Paperback
$50.13

"""Within this book, readers will find insightful theoretical analyses and detailed micro-level studies that broaden...  Read More >>

Chronologie de l'Histoire de Chine

Chronologie de l'Histoire de Chine

Author: Cai Meibiao
ISBN: 9781636676173
Format: Hardback
$290.27

Ce livre r�pertorie les �v�nements importants et les personnages historiques qui ont fa�onn� la Chine et retrace...  Read More >>

The Hammam through Time and Space

The Hammam through Time and Space

Author: Julie Peteet
ISBN: 9780815638315
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle...  Read More >>

Lebendiges Mantra: Mantra, Gottheit und visionäre Erfahrung heute

Lebendiges Mantra: Mantra, Gottheit und visionäre Erfahrung...

Author: Mani Rao
ISBN: 9783031543975
Format: Hardback
$224.37

Rao betritt Neuland, indem er die Aufmerksamkeit auf die Momente lenkt, die der Systematisierung und Kanonbildung...  Read More >>

Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning

Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for...

Author: Susan D. Blum
ISBN: 9781501774188
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines ""schoolishness""...  Read More >>

HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy in the Global South

HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy...

Author: Elizabeth Mills (University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781529221916
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, this book highlights...  Read More >>

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference...

Author: Andrew M. Gardner
ISBN: 9781501774980
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""This book is concerned with how the extraordinary demography and proportions of migration and how global human...  Read More >>

Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle Over Organ Transplants: America’s Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics

Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle Over Organ Transplants:...

Author: William R. LaFleur (formerly University of Pennsylvania, USA) ,  Edward R. Drott (Sophia University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781350255074
Format: Paperback
$59.99

William LaFleur (1936-2010), an eminent scholar of Japanese studies, left behind a substantial number of influential...  Read More >>

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good...

Author: Elena Borisova
ISBN: 9781800086654
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the...  Read More >>

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good...

Author: Elena Borisova
ISBN: 9781800086661
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the...  Read More >>

So Long a Saga: Four Centuries of Badaga Social Histor

So Long a Saga: Four Centuries of Badaga Social Histor...

Author: Paul Hockings
ISBN: 9789350980187
Format: Hardback
$100.50

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