Social & cultural anthropology books

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The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2: Franz Boas, James Teit, and Early Twentieth-Century Salish Ethnography

The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2: Franz Boas, James Teit,...

Author: Franz Boas ,  Andrea Laforet
ISBN: 9781496235718
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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Lives Guided by Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968

Lives Guided by Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968...

Author: Mayling Elizabeth Simpson
ISBN: 9798888242100
Format: Paperback
$50.03

"""...reveals the secret ingredients to why strong traditions at VMI have remained for almost two hundred years...  Read More >>

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide...

Author: Shakirah E. Hudani
ISBN: 9780226832739
Format: Hardback
$163.95

"An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor...  Read More >>

What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic

What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic

Author: Claudia Strauss
ISBN: 9781501775512
Format: Paperback
$94.91

"""Drawing on the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from a wide range of occupations, from day laborers...  Read More >>

The Social Lives of Land

The Social Lives of Land

Author: Michael Goldman ,  Nancy Lee Peluso
ISBN: 9781501771248
Format: Paperback
$102.83

"""This edited volume brings together contributions across multiple...  Read More >>

Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians

Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians...

Author: Ofer Gazit (Senior Lecturer in Music, Senior Lecturer in Music, Tel Aviv University)
ISBN: 9780197682777
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging...  Read More >>

Lives Guided by Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968

Lives Guided by Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968...

Author: Mayling Elizabeth Simpson
ISBN: 9798888242124
Format: Hardback
$71.15

"""...reveals the secret ingredients to why strong traditions at VMI have remained for almost two hundred years...  Read More >>

What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic

What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic

Author: Claudia Strauss
ISBN: 9781501775505
Format: Hardback
$330.00

"""Drawing on the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from a wide range of occupations, from day laborers...  Read More >>

The Social Lives of Land

The Social Lives of Land

Author: Michael Goldman ,  Nancy Lee Peluso
ISBN: 9781501771231
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""This edited volume brings together contributions across multiple...  Read More >>

Earthy Matters: Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay

Earthy Matters: Exploring Human Interactions with Earth,...

Author: Louise Steel ,  Luci Attala
ISBN: 9781837721351
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Explores the connections between humans, the earth, and the matter that comprises them both. Humans are made of...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora

Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity...

Author: Sangmi Lee
ISBN: 9780252045769
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The Hmong diaspora radiates from Southeast Asia to include far-flung nations like the United States, New Zealand,...  Read More >>

Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives

Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the...

Author: Laura Menin
ISBN: 9780815638292
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern...

Author: Harvey Whitehouse
ISBN: 9781529152234
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how three ancient biases—conformism, religiosity,...  Read More >>

Curating Digital Lives: Consumer Cultures, Digital Platforms, and Everyday Practices

Curating Digital Lives: Consumer Cultures, Digital Platforms,...

Author: Chen Liu
ISBN: 9781666929997
Format: Hardback
$277.20

This book examines engagements of daily practices on different types of digital platforms and devices to present...  Read More >>

Magic, Science and Society

Magic, Science and Society

Author: Alex Dennis
ISBN: 9780367179649
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book investigates how the ‘rationality debate’ has developed from E.E. Evans-Pritchard’s study of Azande magic,...  Read More >>

Ethnographic Ways of Knowing: A History Through the Work and Lives of Ten Methodological Innovators

Ethnographic Ways of Knowing: A History Through the...

Author: Lucinda Carspecken (Indiana University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032354033
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Drawing on the works of ten scholars and public intellectuals ranging over 200 years, this book foregrounds ways...  Read More >>

Cannabis: Cultures and Markets

Cannabis: Cultures and Markets

Author: Michał Wanke (University of Opole, Poland) ,  Sveinung Sandberg (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781032743691
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book demonstrates how culture matters for the understanding of cannabis use. It stems from the growing body...  Read More >>

Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism

Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism

Author: Lungile Augustine Tshuma ,  Trust Matsilele
ISBN: 9781032697482
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume examines the trends and patterns of journalists’ harassment in Africa, and assess the policy interventions...  Read More >>

Language and Materiality: Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations

Language and Materiality: Ethnographic and Theoretical...

Author: Jillian R. Cavanaugh ,  Shalini Shankar (Northwestern University, Illinois)
ISBN: 9781316632390
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Aimed at interdisciplinary audiences, and tailored especially to scholars of linguistic and cultural anthropology,...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Freedom

In the Shadow of Freedom

Author: Alessandra Harris ,  Robert Ellsberg
ISBN: 9781626985421
Format: Book
$92.40

"""Traces the roots of systemic anti-Black racism and police violence from 1619 to present-day mass incarceration...  Read More >>

To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Conquerors, Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World

To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Conquerors, Explorers,...

Author: Raimund J. Schulz (Professor of Ancient History, Professor of Ancient History, University of Bielefeld) ,  Robert Savage (Translator and Author, Translator and Author)
ISBN: 9780197668023
Format: Hardback
$66.95

To the Ends of the Earth is a major history of ancient exploration, one that fully incorporates evidence from Greco-Roman...  Read More >>

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