Cultural & Social
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The Journey of Humanity: A New History of Wealth and Inequality with Implications for Our Future
$19.00 Read moreA landmark, radically uplifting account of our species‘ progress, from one of the world’s preeminent thinkers.
“Unparalleled in its scope and ambition…All readers will learn something, and many wil- Author: Galor, Oded
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593186001
- Language: English
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Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out
$20.00 Read moreIn this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined social justice move… [more below]
- Author: Ko, Aph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1590565967
- Language: English
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In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos
$49.95 Read more- Author: Sarkisova, Oksana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048272
- Language: English
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural ant- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525432329
- Language: English
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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet
$25.00 Read more*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology
Volume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of plane
- Author: Van Horn, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1736862502
- Language: English
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From Behind the Mask: Essays on South Louisiana Mardi Gras Runs
$30.00 Read more- Author: Ancelet, Barry Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1946160911
- Language: English
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Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity
$19.95 Read moreA provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space.
- Author: Auge, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292605
- Language: English
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Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai
$16.95 Read moreThe member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European countries. From 1866-70, he served as an attach with the… [more below]
- Author: Mitford, A. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: March 24 2005
- ISBN10: 0486440621
- Language: English
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Troublemaking: Why You Should Organize Your Workplace
$19.95 Read moreThere are no unorganisable workers, only workers yet to be organised.
There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech- Author: Hughes, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767103
- Language: English
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From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture
$34.95 Read moreA cultural history of S?pmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts
Material objects–things made, used, and treasured–tell the story of a people and place. So it is for the I- Author: Sjoholm, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911974
- Language: English
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We the Black Jews
$29.95 Add to cartDr. Ben destroys the myth of a “white Jewish race” and the bigotry that has denied the existence of an African Jewish culture. He establishes the legitimacy of contemporary Black Jewish culture in Afr… [more below]
- Author: Ben-Jochannan, Yosef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: December 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121407
- Language: English
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Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
$21.99 Add to cartFor centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and
- Author: Grinker, Roy Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 132402013X
- Language: English
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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
$17.99 Add to cart“Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.” – Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers
Indigenous peoples have faced the end o
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1487008511
- Language: English
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Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAntisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate.
This Very Short Introduction untangles the hi- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Beller, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198724837
- Language: English
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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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Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony
$28.00 Read moreIn 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and red
- Series: Learning Through Ceremony
- Author: Davidson, Sara Florence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1553797736
- Language: English
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Hawaiki Rising: Haokaulea, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance
$19.99 Add to cartAttuned to a world of natural signs–the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells–Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing
- Author: Low, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0824875249
- Language: English
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Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
$35.00 Add to cart“An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures.” –Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens
The ancient i- Author: Whitehouse, Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 067429162X
- Language: English
