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  • The Performance of Gender

    An Anthropology of Everyday Life in a South Indian Fishing Village

    by Cecilia Busby ...
    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. A detailed and evocotive account of the lives of men and women in a South Indian fishing community reveals new ways of framing gender relations, the body and kinship. The ethnographic account is set within the context of social and cultural theory, ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Christianity

    by Olivia Harris, Cecilia Busby, David Mosse ...
    This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical “repressed” of anthropology. To ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Purpose of Capital

    Elements of Impact, Financial Flows, and Natural Being

    by Jed Emerson ...
    A unique exploration of how investors may act with deeper consideration of the meaning of money, The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Personal Being, explores the historic roots of our understanding of capital, investing and wealth management, connecting how we think about finance with how we think about our lives, World and personal purpose.Many books tell investors how ... Read more

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  • Stuff

    by Daniel Miller ...
    Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff.The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Environmental Ethics

    An Introduction with Readings

    by John Benson ...
    Series series Philosophy and the Human Situation
    Presupposing no prior knowledge of philosophy, John Benson introduces the fundamentals of environmental ethics by asking whether a concern with human well-being is an adequate basis for environmental ethics. He encourages the reader to explore this question, considering techniques used to value the environment and critically examining 'light green' to 'deep green' environmentalism. Each chapter is ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Animal Intimacies

    Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

    by Radhika Govindrajan ...
    "A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies." — Anthropology MattersWhat does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.Built on extensive ethnographic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arguing With Anthropology

    An Introduction to Critical Theories of the Gift

    by Karen Sykes ...
    Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography, it provides a unique course in methods, aims, knowledge, and understanding. The book's highly ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Whitemen

    Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World

    by Ira Bashkow ...
    A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, “the whiteman” has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes endure in ... Read more

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  • Queer Spiritual Spaces

    Sexuality and Sacred Places

    by Kath Browne, Sally R. Munt, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip ...
    Drawn from extensive, new and rich empirical research across the UK, Canada and USA, Queer Spiritual Spaces investigates the contemporary socio-cultural practices of belief, by those who have historically been, and continue to be, excluded or derided by mainstream religions and alternative spiritualities. As the first monograph to be directly informed by 'queer' subjectivities whilst dealing with ... Read more

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  • Craft and the Kingly Ideal

    Art, Trade, and Power

    by Mary W. Helms ...
    In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from?In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W. Helms explores the power attributed to ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Thinking Through Things

    Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

    Edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell ...
    Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting its philosophical foundations. The first text to offer a direct and provocative challenge to disciplinary fragmentation - arguing for the futility of segregating the study of artefacts and society - ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD