Social & cultural anthropology books

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Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene

Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant...

Author: Kelly Dombroski
ISBN: 9780816679850
Format: Hardback
$270.00

"""Examining the remarkable evolution in Asia-Pacific hygiene practices, Caring for Life is a call to action, a...  Read More >>

Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges

Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges

Author: Emma Gilberthorpe
ISBN: 9781032586168
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges.  Read More >>

Words and Silences

Words and Silences

Author: L Vallikivi
ISBN: 9780253068767
Format: Paperback
$82.99

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Globalizing Local Policing: An Ethnography of Change and Concern Among Danish Detectives

Globalizing Local Policing: An Ethnography of Change...

Author: David Sausdal
ISBN: 9783031189210
Format: Paperback
$343.17

The book examines 'the globalization of local policing' through an ethnographic study of the Danish Police. Where...  Read More >>

Polygamy as Heritage: Debunking the Neo-colonial Critique in African Societies

Polygamy as Heritage: Debunking the Neo-colonial Critique...

Author: John A Egyawan
ISBN: 9798323842377
Format: Paperback
$15.81

"Polygamy as Heritage: Debunking the Neo-colonial Critique in African Societies"" is a compelling exploration into...  Read More >>

Words and Silences

Words and Silences

Author: L Vallikivi
ISBN: 9780253068750
Format: Hardback
$186.99

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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire...

Author: Katy Kelleher
ISBN: 9781982179366
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Paris Review columnist Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories...  Read More >>

Indigenous Psychology in Africa: A Survey of Concepts, Theory, Research, and Praxis

Indigenous Psychology in Africa: A Survey of Concepts,...

Author: Seth Oppong (University of Botswana)
ISBN: 9781009486972
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element discusses the motivations for AP, centrality of culture, demarcations of AP, and the different strands...  Read More >>

The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms

The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors...

Author: R. Alexander Bentley (Professor, University of Tennessee) ,  Michael J. O'Brien (Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Texas A&M University - San Antonio)
ISBN: 9780262551977
Format: Paperback
$54.99

"How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors. How culture evolves through...  Read More >>

The Death of Home: Aura and Space in the Age of Digitalization

The Death of Home: Aura and Space in the Age of Digitalization...

Author: Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde
ISBN: 9783111078311
Format: Hardback
$261.33

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and...

Author: Jennifer T. Roberts ,  Jennifer T. Roberts
ISBN: 9780691181479
Format: Hardback
$62.99

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity Covering the whole of the ancient...  Read More >>

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