Social & cultural anthropology books

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Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health...

Author: Charles L. Briggs
ISBN: 9781478025788
Format: Hardback
$284.99

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

Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History

Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History

Author: Marc Millon
ISBN: 9781911723073
Format: Hardback
$44.99

A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change.  Read More >>

Mild Altered States of Consciousness: Subtle Shifts of Mind and Their Therapeutic Potential

Mild Altered States of Consciousness: Subtle Shifts...

Author: Eileen Sheppard
ISBN: 9783031534515
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness...  Read More >>

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State...

Author: Friedrich Engels
ISBN: 9798211413023
Format: Paperback
$39.57

This work has an introduction from Ichele Barratt, one of Britain's leading feminist writers, who discusses the...  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: 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 >>

Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies: An Archaeology of Human Resilience

Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies: An Archaeology...

Author: Scott M. Fitzpatrick ,  Jon M. Erlandson
ISBN: 9780813069975
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Explores the impacts humans have made on island and coastal ecosystems and the ways these environments have adapted...  Read More >>

Buddhism in Indonesia: A Study of Multiple Revivals

Buddhism in Indonesia: A Study of Multiple Revivals...

Author: Roberto Rizzo
ISBN: 9781032485218
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Based on extensive original research, this book explores the history and current revival of Buddhism on the Indonesian...  Read More >>

Ancestor Worship in the Diaspora Chinese and China Universes: The Making of a Collaborative Cultural Basin

Ancestor Worship in the Diaspora Chinese and China Universes:...

Author: Khun Eng Kuah (Jinan University, China)
ISBN: 9781032578361
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Kuah explores the centrality of ancestors and ancestor worship of the Chinese in the Diaspora Chinese and China...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork

The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork

Author: Nasir Uddin ,  Alak Paul
ISBN: 9783031136177
Format: Paperback
$659.97

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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: 9798888242124
Format: Hardback
$71.15

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

Russia’s Denial of Ukraine: Letters and Contested Memory

Russia’s Denial of Ukraine: Letters and Contested Memory...

Author: Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
ISBN: 9781666941814
Format: Hardback
$202.00

This book explores the gradual and long-lasting integration of contested memory in the cultural memory of Ukraine....  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 >>

Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism

Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic...

Author: Leland Harper ,  Jennifer Kling
ISBN: 9781793640444
Format: Paperback
$105.57

This book unearths and outlines the semantic foundations of white fragility and their consequences for racial justice...  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 >>

Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials

Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, and Sexual...

Author: Camille S. Alexander ,  Camille S. Alexander
ISBN: 9781666926750
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Black Witches and Queer Ghosts is a collection of essays centering on teen supernatural serials (such as television...  Read More >>

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