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The art of the observer
A personal view of documentary
By David MacDougall
The art of the observer is a personal guide to documentary filmmaking, based on the author's years of pioneering work in the fields of ethnographic and documentary cinema. It stands in sharp ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6535-0
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£24.99
Pre-OrderPerforming the jumbled city
Subversive aesthetics, anticolonial indigeneity and collaborative ethnography in Santiago de Chile
Edited by Olivia Casagrande
Performing the jumbled city is a complex artefact beyond its own materiality. Linked to a dedicated website hosting additional audio-visual materials, the book acts as a connecting device ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6187-1
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£85.00
Pre-OrderGlobal biographies
Lived history as method
Edited by Laura Almagor, Haakon Ikonomou and Gunvor Simonsen
Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6116-1
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£85.00
Pre-OrderEuropean cities
Modernity, race and colonialism
Edited by Noa K. Ha and Giovanni Picker
European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a multidisciplinary collection of scholarly studies which rethink European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5843-7
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£85.00
Pre-OrderIn the borderland between song and speech
Vocal expressions in oral cultures
Edited by Håkan Lundström and Jan-Olof Svantesson
With Anastasia Karlsson, Siri Tuttle, Arthur Holmer, Inga-Lill Hansson and Yasuko Nagano-Madsen
This is a study of vocal expressions in the borderland between speech and song, based on performances from cultural contexts where oral transmission dominates. Approaches drawn from perspectives ... More
ISBN: 978-9-1985-5776-3
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£25.00
Pre-OrderBirth controlled
Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics in South Africa and India
Edited by Amrita Pande
Birth controlled analyses the world of selective reproduction - the politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future - through a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of 'controlling' ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6054-6
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£85.00
Pre-OrderAffective intimacies
Edited by Marjo Kolehmainen, Kinneret Lahad and Annukka Lahti
This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories. Contributors address the embodied, affective and psychic, sensorial ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5856-7
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£85.00
Pre-OrderMummified
The stories behind Egyptian mummies in museums
By Angela Stienne
Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6189-5
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£20.00
Pre-OrderThe social significance of dining out
A study of continuity and change
By Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans
'This is a remarkable book that will be of wide interest to sociologists of consumption and scholars of food studies more generally.' British Journal of Sociology 'This is an exquisitely detailed ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6377-6
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£25.00
Pre-OrderThe anthropology of power, agency, and morality
The enduring legacy of F. G. Bailey
Edited by Victor de Munck and Elisa J. Sobo
The works of F. G. Bailey (1924-2020) provide a masterful template for good ethnography. Central to this is Bailey's ability to conceptually connect the well-described micro-contexts of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5825-3
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£90.00
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