Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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Hong Kong Foodways
$15.00 Read moreThis book examines Hong Kong foodways in different periods of social development and hopes to advance anthropological inquiries by addressing issues concerning identity, migration, consumerism, global… [more below]
- Series: Hong Kong Matters
- Author: Cheung C H Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9888754351
- Language: English
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Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global
$29.95 Read moreAn exposé of how far-right extremists across Europe use attacks on abortion to introduce broader fascist politics-and their connections to the American far right, from a leading investigative journal… [more below]
- Author: Norris, Sian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1839764732
- Language: English
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The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
$20.00 Add to cart“If you want to write, paint, sing, compose, act, or make films, read The Gift.” –from the Introduction by Margaret Atwood
A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time and- Author: Hyde, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1984897780
- Language: English
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Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
$24.95 Add to cartWhen landlords always win and renters pay the price, what can be done?
Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented ac- Author: Bano, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1804293873
- Language: English
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Globalismo: Ingenier?a Social Y Control Total En El Siglo XXI
$19.99 Add to cartDesvela los mecanismos ocultos de la dominaci?n mundial con Globalismo: Ingenier?a social y control total en el siglo XXI. El exitoso autor Agust?n Laje desentra?a magistralmente la malvada realidad d
- Author: Laje, Agustin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1400331862
- Language: Spanish
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Everything to Play for: An Insider’s Guide to How Videogames Are Changing Our World
$24.95 Read moreAn insider’s account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good
Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-material- Author: Did, Marijam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1804293245
- Language: English
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Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth
$18.95 Read more*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE*
“An impassioned, informative love letter to Iceland.” —New York Times Book Review “This compelling and highly readable book offers a thought-provoking- Author: Brown, Nancy Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365745
- Language: English
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Ancestral Future
$14.95 Read moreIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the … [more below]
- Series: Critical South
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560734
- Language: English
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Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
$28.99 Add to cartA devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond …
From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain–the exchange of- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891047
- Language: English
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
$15.95 Read moreA brilliant example of the comparative method, The Gift presents the first systematic study of the custom–widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day Melanesia–of exchanging g
- Author: Mauss, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 17 2000
- ISBN10: 039332043X
- Language: English
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Tikanga: An Introduction to Te Ao Maori
$29.95 Read moreThe book we’ve all been needing for decades – a unique explanation of the Maori world for Pakeha, and for Maori people wishing to learn more about tikanga.
With simple lucidity and great expertise, K- Author: Opai, Keri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1990003176
- Language: English
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The Dinka History the Ancients of Sudan from Abuk and Garang at Creation to the Present Day Dinka 2015
$50.00 Add to cartThis book serves as a tribute to the rich heritage and legacy of the Dinka people, whose traditions and history span millennia. As a valuable contribution to the global pursuit of knowledge about huma… [more below]
- Author: Madut-Kueendit, Lewis Anei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 796
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0994363133
- Language: English
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The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
$34.99 Add to cart“A profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?”
— Gabor Maté M.D., autho- Author: Lent, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0865719543
- Language: English
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Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
$25.43 Add to cartThis new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple’s bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. It suggests comparison with t… [more below]
- Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 156663721X
- Language: English
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The Art of Action: 10th Anniversary Edition
$34.95 Read moreThe 10th Anniversary Edition of the Leadership Classic
The surprisingly common sense approach to leading a global company, based on a theoretical framework first used by the nineteenth-century Prussia- Author: Bungay, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1529376963
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
$26.95 Read moreChronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963-64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and culture of
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Clastres, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 29 2001
- ISBN10: 0942299787
- Language: English
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Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity
$19.95 Read moreA thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality–at the table and beyond–that’s part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our da… [more below]
- Author: Basil, Priya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0525657851
- Language: English
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Way Things Ought to Be
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author and #1 radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh offered a way of life for millions of avid and devoted listeners. Every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with … [more below]
- Author: Limbaugh, Rush
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982188464
- Language: English
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The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
$35.00 Add to cartA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593700678
- Language: English
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Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice
$39.67 Read moreWritten by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book weaves together ethnographic accounts of work and learning, appr… [more below]
- Author: Lave, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1108727433
- Language: English
