Drawing on contemporary debates in philosophy and cultural theory, Dreams of Presence revives the concept of culture as an existential phenomenon and explores geography’s role in making it present as an abiding force in everyday social life.
Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits that come to possess them.
Queer Anthropology offers a short introduction to an evolving subfield of socio-cultural anthropology, exploring its historical development, critiques over the past two decades, and responses to emerging challenges.
Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship
by Luke Owles Fleming
Price:
$60.00
ISBN: 9781487549701
Pub Date: December 2024
On Speaking Terms examines the sociolinguistic and non-verbal codes that enact interpersonal avoidance relationships in more than one hundred societies.
Engaging classic anthropological theory, Relative Strangers offers a fresh perspective on kinship in Palestine by focusing on Romani families of the region.
An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau
by Shannon M. Ward
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$26.95
ISBN: 9781487558673
Pub Date: November 2024
This book analyses the everyday conversations of children in eastern Tibet (contemporary People's Republic of China) to demonstrate how they use language to navigate the social and cultural changes caused by rural to urban migration.
Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict
by Kee Howe Yong
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$85.00
ISBN: 9781487556129
Pub Date: September 2024
Questioning the naturalness of the nation state, Thailand’s Far South explores the recurring conflict in Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand’s southern region.
Drawing on contemporary Indigenous art practices, Aesthetics of Repair explores the collision of ceremonial protocols with visual forms of repair in the Pacific Northwest.
The second edition of this beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to the field of cultural anthropology and encourages them to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens.
Jane Goodall meets Carrie Bradshaw in Sticky, Sexy, Sad – an insightful, empowering memoir by an anthropologist who lays her own life bare as she explores the cultural matrix of digital courtship.
This graphic novel ethnography takes the reader on a "toxic tour" of the Ecuadorian Amazon and reveals the struggles for environmental justice in everyday life.
Existential Anthropology and the Study of Religion
Edited by Don Seeman and Devaka Premawardhana
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487554750
Pub Date: April 2024
Bringing together major scholars, Between Life and Thought explores the burgeoning subfield of existential anthropology as a truly humanistic social science, a space of convergence for anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies.
This captivating ethnographic novel tells a story about global inequality through a rich, poignant, and often humorous portrait of everyday life in the postcolonial Pacific.
Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life
by David Divita
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$26.95
ISBN: 9781487554293
Pub Date: March 2024
Featuring a community of Spanish labour migrants in France who were born at the time of Spain’s civil war and came of age during General Francisco Ferdinand’s dictatorship, Untold Stories reveals how legacies of authoritarianism circulate in the lives of older adults.
