Social & cultural anthropology books

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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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Sexualised Governmentalities: Critical Perspectives on Homosexism

Sexualised Governmentalities: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Angelos Bollas
ISBN: 9783031570087
Format: Paperback
$118.77

This book critically examines the concept of sexualised governmentalities, a framework for understanding the evolving...  Read More >>

Ancestral Future

Ancestral Future

Author: Ailton Krenak ,  Alex Brostoff
ISBN: 9781509560738
Format: Paperback
$26.95

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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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Ancestral Future

Ancestral Future

Author: Ailton Krenak ,  Alex Brostoff
ISBN: 9781509560721
Format: Hardback
$82.95

In response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social...  Read More >>

Emotions in Crisis: Youth and Social Change in Spain

Emotions in Crisis: Youth and Social Change in Spain...

Author: Nina Margies (The Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9781529235036
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Drawing on the experiences of young adults after the 2008 economic crisis in Spain, Emotions in Crisis analyses...  Read More >>

Are We Learning from Accidents?: A quandary, a question and a way forward

Are We Learning from Accidents?: A quandary, a question...

Author: Nippin Anand
ISBN: 9781738560301
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Book review 'This brilliant book combines deeply personal insights...  Read More >>

Conviviality in Burgaz: Living, Loving and Fighting on a Diverse Island of Istanbul

Conviviality in Burgaz: Living, Loving and Fighting...

Author: Deniz N. Duru
ISBN: 9783031523366
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions,...  Read More >>

Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across Eurasia: Kyrgyzstan’s ‘First Capitalists’ Since the Late Soviet Era

Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across...

Author: Philipp Schröder (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
ISBN: 9781032657295
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is a comprehensive, multi-sited ethnography about the unfolding of capitalism across Eurasia. It will...  Read More >>

Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street, The Town

Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street,...

Author: Catherine Barnard (University of Cambridge) ,  Fiona Costello (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781529229561
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This unique research paints a vivid picture of migrant workers' experiences during the turbulent times of Brexit...  Read More >>

Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science

Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American...

Author: Duana Fullwiley
ISBN: 9780520401167
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the...  Read More >>

Jump Up: Seasonal Celebrations from the World's Deep Traditions

Jump Up: Seasonal Celebrations from the World's Deep...

Author: Luisah Teish
ISBN: 9781642505764
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Laced with myth, folklore, and poetry, Jump Up celebrates life, enlivens the spirit, and strengthens the bonds of...  Read More >>

The Korean Welfare State: Social Investment in an Aging Society

The Korean Welfare State: Social Investment in an Aging...

Author: Kyungbae Chung (, President of the Korean Socio-Economic Society) ,  Neil Gilbert (, Milton and Gertrude Chernin Chair in Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780197644928
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This book examines the evolution of the Korean welfare state over the last several decades and the challenges it...  Read More >>

Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

Author: Timothy D. Taylor
ISBN: 9781478030355
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Timothy D. Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value to examine how people’s conceptions...  Read More >>

Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health...

Author: Charles L. Briggs
ISBN: 9781478026006
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Charles L. Briggs examines and challenges the long-standing foundational concepts in the communication of health...  Read More >>

Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

Author: Timothy D. Taylor
ISBN: 9781478026143
Format: Hardback
$271.79

Timothy D. Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value to examine how people’s conceptions...  Read More >>

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