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Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Paperback

by Michele Dillon

xiii, 481 pages. 2003

Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Paperback

by Nicholas B. Dirks

xiii, 372 pages. 2001

Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. Paperback

by Mary Douglas

240 pages, illustrations. 2003. One of the most important works of modern anthropology.

Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Paperback

by Mary Douglas

272 pages. 2002. Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. She reveals its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge.

Third World Cities. Second edition. Paperback

David Drakakis-Smith

208 pages, 44 line drawings, 23 photos. 2000. Containing a wealth of student-friendly features this text provides an invaluable introduction to the issues and processes of the city in the Third World

Language and Gender. Paperback

Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet

378 pages, 11 line diagrams, 4 tables. 2003. It covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussion of gender and of the resources that the linguistic system offers for the construction of social meaning. The body of the book offers an unprecedentedly broad and deep coverage of the interaction between language and social life, ranging from nuances of pronunciation to conversational dynamics to the deployment of metaphor.

Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Paperback
Marc Edelman (Editor), Angelique Haugerud (Editor)

416 pages. 2004

Technologies of Procreation. Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception. Second edition. Paperback

by Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathern

236 pages, bibliography, index. 1999. Using evidence from cross-disciplinary research carried out in 1990-1991, this text tackles debates relating to the concept of kinship and aims to bridge the gap between medical technology and cultural values.

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Paperback
by Mircea Eliade. xxix, 610 pages. 2004

Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos And History. Paperback

by Mircea Eliade

xxix, 195 pages. 2005

Ethnobiology and the Science of Humankind. Paperback
By Prof Dr Roy Ellen

176 pages. 2006. This book considers the ways in which the subject matter and methodologies of ethnobiological research address core anthropological questions about the character of culture, language, cognition, knowledge, subsistence practice and co-evolution.

Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate. Paperback

by Jack David Eller. xv, 231 pages. 2007

Religion and Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective. Paperback

Edited by Stephen Ellingson and M. Christian Green

272 pages, index. 2002

Earthscan Reader in Poverty and Biodiversity Conservation.

Elliot & Roe 2010. Paperback, 416 pages, Figures, tables, graphs, boxes, index, 234 x 156 mm. This Reader provides a guide to, and commentary on, the different strands of the current conservation-poverty debate through a selection of key readings from both the conservation and development literature including policy documents, journal articles and reports.

History of Anthropology. Paperback

Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivert Nielsen

viii, 207 pages, bibliography and index. 2001

Engaging Anthropology: The Case for a Public Presence. Paperback

by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

xii, 148 pages. 2006

Ethnicity and Nationalism. Second edition. Paperback

by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

vii, 199 pages. 2002. The work was written to serve as a core text for undergraduate courses and broadly covers such topics as ethnic identity and ideology, the historical development of ethnicity, minorities and the state, identity politics and culture.

Small Places, Large Issues. Third edition. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Th. H. Eriksen 2010

Paperback, 376 pages, 13 figures, 215 x 135 mm

This new edition is updated throughout and increases the emphasis on the interdependence of human worlds. There is a new discussion of the new influence cultural studies and natural science on anthropology.

Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Paperback

by E.E. Evans-Pritchard, abridged with an introduction by Eva Gillies

xxiii, 265 pages. 1976

Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Paperback

by James Ferguson. xvii, 326 pages. 1999

The Tyranny of Science.

Paul K. Feyerabend 2011

Paperback, 180 pages, 216 x 140 mm

Feyerabend challenges some modern myths about science, including the myth that ‘science is successful'.

Understanding Social Statistics. Paperback

By: Jane Fielding and Nigel Gilbert. 360 pages, illustrated. 2nd revised edition 2006

Religion and Culture. Paperback

Michel Foucault 1999.

Paperback, 240 pages, 229 x 152 mm

Here are classic essays such as "The Battle for Chastity," alongside those that have been less widely read in English or in French.

Archaeology of Personhood. An Anthropological Approach. Paperback

by Chris Fowler

160 pages. 2006. The Archaeology of Personhood discusses what it means to be human and, by drawing on examples from European prehistory, discusses the implications that contemporary understandings of personhood have on archaeological interpretation

Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience. Paperback

by Mark Fox

392 pages. 2002. This dramatic and sustained response to decades of research into near-death experiences (NDEs) is the first book to credibly bridge the gap between the competing factions of science and spirituality.

Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order. Paperback

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese

332 pages. 2008. Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world.

Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society In India. Paperback

by C. J. Fuller

360 pages. 2004. Revised, expanded

Introduction to the Sociology of Religion: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives. Paperback

Inger Furseth and Pal Repstad. 272 pages. 2006

Dispatches from the Field. Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World

Andrew Gardner and David M. Hoffman

235 pages. 2006. Penned by advanced graduate students amidst their dissertation fieldwork, these provocative essays capture the challenges and intricacies of that anthropological rite of passage. The collection’s authors frankly portray the mistakes they made in the field, the psychological and emotional frustration seemingly endemic to “doing” ethnography, and the ethical complexities of researching living people.

Sociology. 6th, revised edition. Paperback. ca.27x19cm

Anthony Giddens. 1000 pages, illustrations, maps. 6th revised edition 2009

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Violence and Hope in a U.S.–Mexico Border Town
Jody Glittenberg

171 pages. 2008. Violence and Hope reveals sociopolitical strife and power between the borders of two nations. It is a potent story of inequality of opportunity, immigration, drug and human trafficking, gangs, prostitution, poverty, crime, and family violence in “Esperanza,” a U.S. town 45 miles from Mexico.

Doing Ethnography. Paperback

Giampietro Gobo

 376 pages, 2008. With regular exercises, lists of key terms and points and self-evaluation checklists, Doing Ethnography systematically describes the various phases of an ethnographic inquiry and provides numerous examples, suggestions and advice for the novice ethnographer.

Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Paperback

Erving Goffman

256 pages. 1990. He shows us exactly how people use such 'fixed props' as houses, clothes, and job situations; how they combine in teams resembling secret societies; and, how they adopt discrepant roles and communicate out of character.

Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia. Paperback

by Daniel M. Goldstein

296 pages, 23 photos, 1 map. 2004

Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. Paperback
by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

369 pages. 2003

Anthropology and Archaeology. A Changing Relationship. Paperback

Chris Gosden

228 pages, maps, 32 illustrations. 1999. Covering the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthropology, this text takes a historical approach, setting the early history of the disciplines within the colonial period during which the Europeans encountered and attempted to make sense of many other peoples

Archaeology and Colonialism. Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present. Paperback

Chris Gosden

Ethnographer’s Eye. Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology. Paperback

Anna Grimshaw

236 pages. 2001. Grimshaw’s exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry.

On Being Authentic. Paperback

C. Guignon

200 pages. 2004. Thought-provoking and with an astonishing range of references, On Being Authentic is a gripping journey into the self. Beginning with Socrates and Augustine, Charles Guignon argues that being authentic is to have a sincere story to tell.

Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living. Paperback

Nora Haenn and Richard R. Wilk (editors) ix, 493 pages. 2006

Anthropology in Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society. 2nd edition. Paperback. 

by Robert A. Hahn. xxi, 237 pages. 2008-9

Hellenicity. Between Ethnicity and Culture. New edition. Paperback

Jonathan M. Hall

The Formations of Modernity.

Gieben, Bram & Hall, Stuart. Paperback, 352 pages, 246 x 187 mm. Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies.

Terrific Majesty. The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention. Paperback

by Carolyn Hamilton

xii, 278 pages. 1998

Sociology of Religion. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. 2nd edition. Paperback

Malcolm Hamilton 

320 pages. 2001. This expanded second edition combines a discussion of the main theorists with a wide range of material illustrating the diversity of religious beliefs and practices.

Ethnography: Principles in Practice. Paperback
Martyn Hammersley, Paul Atkinson. 278 pages. 2007