Social & cultural anthropology books

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Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches...

Author: Claire Chambers ,  Ipek Demir
ISBN: 9781032382715
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role...  Read More >>

Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca: Healing Patriarchy, Marriage, and Mexico

Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca: Healing Patriarchy,...

Author: Michelle Ramirez
ISBN: 9780817361440
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Carry Forth the Stories: A Journey into Indigenous Oral Traditions with Implications for Our Humanity

Carry Forth the Stories: A Journey into Indigenous Oral...

Author: Rodney Frey ,  Leonard Bends
ISBN: 9780874224290
Format: Paperback
$50.60

"Anchored in the oral traditions of Native Peoples, Frey intertwines the stories of elders and his own to offer...  Read More >>

Unfinished Nature: Particle Physics at CERN

Unfinished Nature: Particle Physics at CERN

Author: Arpita Roy
ISBN: 9780231205528
Format: Hardback
$232.95

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Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest

Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest

Author: Bruce O'Neill
ISBN: 9781512825824
Format: Hardback
$316.80

"This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania's capital,...  Read More >>

Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time

Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing...

Author: Thomas Hale
ISBN: 9780691238128
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generations Climate change...  Read More >>

The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design

The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional...

Author: Kristin Peterson ,  Valerie Olson
ISBN: 9781478025900
Format: Hardback
$290.27

In The Ethnographer’s Way, Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson guide students and scholars through the process of...  Read More >>

The Hands of God at Work: Islamic Gender Justice Through Translingual PRAXIS

The Hands of God at Work: Islamic Gender Justice Through...

Author: Amber Engelson
ISBN: 9780814101766
Format: Paperback
$105.57

This book explores how Indonesian writers circulate knowledge between the Indonesian, English, and Arabic languages...  Read More >>

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long...

Author: Sandra Tomc
ISBN: 9780472074891
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter....  Read More >>

Decoding the Codex Borgia: Visual Symbols of Time and Space in Ancient Mexico

Decoding the Codex Borgia: Visual Symbols of Time and...

Author: Susan Milbrath
ISBN: 9780813069920
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Pre-Columbian art dating to the fifteenth century,...  Read More >>

Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia

Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders...

Author: Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) ,  Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA)
ISBN: 9781350346024
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining...  Read More >>

Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces

Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces

Author: Angharad Closs Stephens (Swansea University, UK) ,  Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032205564
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces addresses the politics of new forms of collective movements,...  Read More >>

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches...

Author: Claire Chambers ,  Ipek Demir
ISBN: 9781032399195
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role...  Read More >>

Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca: Healing Patriarchy, Marriage, and Mexico

Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca: Healing Patriarchy,...

Author: Michelle Ramirez
ISBN: 9780817321956
Format: Hardback
$290.40

An ethnography focusing on a Pentecostal church community and their pursuit of healing marriages and prosperity....  Read More >>

Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean

Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean

Author: Rose Mary Allen ,  Sruti Bala
ISBN: 9789004690875
Format: Hardback
$469.92

This handbook offers a comprehensive anthology of gender studies on the Caribbean islands of the Netherlands. It...  Read More >>

Chasing Traces: History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

Chasing Traces: History and Ethnography in the Uplands...

Author: Pierre Petit ,  Jean Michaud
ISBN: 9780824895556
Format: Hardback
$184.80

The first book about historical ethnography and related issues in the Southeast Asian highlands. Taking a critically...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication

The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication...

Author: Michael S. Jeffress ,  Joy M. Cypher
ISBN: 9783031144493
Format: Paperback
$580.77

The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication covers a broad spectrum of topics related to how we perceive...  Read More >>

Thami Al-Glaoui: Morocco's Greatest Pasha

Thami Al-Glaoui: Morocco's Greatest Pasha

Author: Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli
ISBN: 9781399520676
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Who Killed Jules Crevaux?: Murder in the Bolivian Chaco

Who Killed Jules Crevaux?: Murder in the Bolivian Chaco...

Author: Isabelle Combès ,  Francis Grandhomme
ISBN: 9781912808564
Format: Paperback
$51.75

The first book to explore the deaths of explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew from an Indigenous perspective. In...  Read More >>

Queering Kinship: Non-heterosexual Couples, Parents, and Families in Guangdong, China

Queering Kinship: Non-heterosexual Couples, Parents,...

Author: Han Tao (The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781529233278
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Guangdong, China, this book explores the various tactics queer people employ...  Read More >>

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

Author: Emmanuel Acho ,  Noa Tishby
ISBN: 9781668057858
Format: Hardback
$73.89

"From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation...  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

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Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps

Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side...

Author: Treena Orchard ,  Wednesday Martin
ISBN: 9781487549305
Format: Hardback
$54.31

Jane Goodall meets Carrie Bradshaw in Sticky, Sexy, Sad – an insightful, empowering memoir by an anthropologist...  Read More >>

Life at the Center: Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston

Life at the Center: Haitians and Corporate Catholicism...

Author: Erica Caple James
ISBN: 9780520400542
Format: Paperback
$57.95

"A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

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