Ilisa Barbash

Lucien Taylor

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Social Studies

A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos

Cross-Cultural Filmmaking

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Margaret. Mead

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

In Three Primitive Societies

First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters of Tchambuli -- Mead advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences but reflect the cultural conditioning of different societies. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Helen Fisher and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. A precursor to Mead's illuminating Male & Female, Sex & Temperament lays the groundwork for her lifelong study of gender differences.

Sex and Temperament

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Martin F. Manalansan

Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay identity is not teleological but fraught with fissures, Martin Manalansan IV describes how Filipino gay immigrants, like many queers of color, are creating alternative paths to queer modernity and citizenship. He makes a compelling argument for the significance of diaspora and immigration as sites for investigating the complexities of gender, race, and sexuality.

Manalansan locates diasporic, transnational, and global dimensions of gay and other queer identities within a framework of quotidian struggles ranging from everyday domesticity to public engagements with racialized and gendered images to life-threatening situations involving AIDS. He reveals the gritty, mundane, and often contradictory deeds and utterances of Filipino gay men as key elements of queer globalization and transnationalism. Through careful and sensitive analysis of these men's lives and rituals, he demonstrates that transnational gay identity is not merely a consumable product or lifestyle, but rather a pivotal element in the multiple, shifting relationships that queer immigrants of color mobilize as they confront the tribulations of a changing world.

Global Divas

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Selected Essays from V. A. R. , 1990-1994

Visualizing Theory

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Ingrid Piller

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics

This book explores how linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to migration and globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and imparity of participation, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice is a call to write language into the social justice agenda.

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice

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Mark J. Plotkin

An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest

Adventure, anthropology, and science converge in one man's quest among the rain forest shamans for ancient medicines that may hold the cure to today's devastating diseases. Vividly clarifies what destruction of the region's plant species may ultimately cost humanity.

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

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Ruth Benedict

"Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life." -- New York Times

A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture is an eloquent declaration of the role of culture in shaping human life. In this fascinating work, the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies -- the Zuni of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia -- and demonstrates the diversity of behaviors in them. Benedict's groundbreaking study shows that a unique configuration of traits defines each human culture and she examines the relationship between culture and the individual. Featuring prefatory remarks by Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Louise Lamphere, this provocative work ultimately explores what it means to be human.

"That today the modern world is on such easy terms with the concept of culture . . . is in very great part due to this book." -- Margaret Mead

"Benedict's Patterns of Culture is a foundational text in teaching us the value of diversity. Her hope for the future still has resonance in the twenty-first century: that recognition of cultural relativity will create an appreciation for 'the coexisting and equally valid patterns of life which mankind has created for itself from the raw materials of existence.'" -- from the new foreword by Louise Lamphere, past president of the American Anthrolopological Association

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) was one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century. Her profoundly influential books Patterns of Culture and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture were bestsellers when they were first published, and they have remained indispensable works for the study of culture in the many decades since.

Patterns of Culture

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Max Weber

Peter Baehr

Gordon C. Wells

And Other Writings

In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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D. Stanley Eitzen

Lessons from Other Societies

This reader examines how other advanced industrial societies have dealt with social problems with relative success and looks how these strategies may be applicable to the United States. For each social problem considered, several articles have been selected. These articles either describe the situation in a single country or in multiple countries, or expressly contrast the situation of a country or countries with the United States.

Solutions to Social Problems

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Barbara Johnstone

Revised and updated, this third edition of Barbara Johnstone’s Discourse Analysis encourages students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended set of techniques. Exploring a variety of approaches, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, social semiotics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods, the book balances its comprehensive coverage with extensive practical examples, making it the ideal introductory text for students new to the subject. This new edition reflects the increased importance within the field of new media discourse, multi-modal discourse and the analysis of large corpora of discourse data. Updated material expands the discussion of stancetaking, whilst new material addresses recontextualization, precontextualization, and language and the body. Pedagogical features have been refreshed, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects, with suggested supplementary readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further discovery. Chapters in this book are self-contained, so they can be handled in any order Suggested supplementary readings are featured at the end of every chapter Book is written specifically for a non-specialist, interdisciplinary audience Examples of computer-aided corpus analysis (reflecting the improvements made to theories and tools) supplement every chapter Discussion questions and ideas for small research projects are interspersed throughout The combination of breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly pedagogical features ensures Discourse Analysis remains the ideal textbook for students taking their first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.

Discourse Analysis

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Theodor Adorno

Philosophy

In this remarkable work written 50 years ago, Adorno showcases the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption.

The Stars down to Earth

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Rachel Charlotte Smith

Introduction : Design Anthropological Futures / Mette Gislev Kjaersgaard, Joachim Halse, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Kasper Tang Vangkilde, Thomas Binder, and Ton Otto -- Cultures of the Future : Emergence and Intervention in Design Anthropology / Rachel Charlotte Smith and Ton Otto -- Design and the Future : Temporal Politics of "Making a Difference" / Ramia Mazé -- Different Presents in the Making / Mike Anusas and Rachel Harkness -- The New Design Ethnographers, 1968-1974 : Towards a Critical Historiography of Design Anthropology / Alison J. Clarke -- Design Interventions as a Form of Inquiry / Joachim Halse and Laura Boffi -- Jostling Ethnography Between Design and Participatory Art Practices and the Collaborative Relations it Engenders / George E. Marcus -- Conversation Dispositifs : Towards a Transdisciplinary Design Anthropological Approach / Zoy Anastassakis and Barbara Szaniecki -- The Irony of Drones for Foraging : Exploring the Work of Speculative Interventions / Carl DiSalvo -- Para-ethnography 2.0. : an Experiment in Design Anthropological Collaboration / Kaspar Tang Gangilde and Morten Hulvey Rod -- Design Anthropology On the Fly : Performative Spontaneity in Commercial Ethnographic Research / Brendon Clark and Melissa L. Caldwell -- Politics of Inviting : Co-Articulations of Issues in Designerly Public Engagement / Kristina Lindstrom and Sa Stuhl -- Collaborative Cleaning, Archiving and Curating the Heritage of the Future / Adam Drazin, Robert Knowles, Isabel Brendenbroker and Anais Bloch -- Design Anthropological Frictions : Mundane Practices meet Speculative Critique / Mette Kjaersgaard and Laurens Boer -- Things as Co-ethnographers Implications of a Thing Perspective for Design and Anthropology / Elisa Giaccardi, Chris Speed, Nazli Cila and Melissa L. Caldwell -- Design Anthropology as Ontological Exploration and Inter-Species Engagement / Tau Ulv Lenskjold and Sissel Olander -- The Things We Do : Encountering the Possible / Thomas Binder.

Design Anthropological Futures

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Bridget Somekh

Previous ed.: Research methods in the social sciences, 2005.

Theory and Methods in Social Research

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Paul A. Erickson

Liam D. Murphy

"An accessible and engaging overview of anthropological theory that provides a comprehensive history from antiquity through to the twenty-first century. The fifth edition has been revised throughout, with substantial updates to the Feminism and Anthropology section, including more on Gender and Sexuality, and with a new section on Anthropologies of the Digital Age. Once again, A History of Anthropological Theory will be published simultaneously with the accompanying reader, mirroring these changes in the selection of readings, so they can easily be used together in the classroom. Additional biographical information about some of theorists has been added to help students."--

A History of Anthropological Theory

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Mary Talbot

This is an up-to-date textbook in the area of language and gender. Mary Talbot examines the language used by women and men in a variety of speech situations and genres.

Language and Gender

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Nancy Bonvillain

The Meaning of Messages

For courses in Language and Culture, and Sociolinguistics Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages, Language, Culture and Communication explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. It examines the multi-faceted meanings and uses of language and emphasizes the ways that language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions.

Language, Culture, and Communication

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Lila Abu-Lughod

Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society

First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod’s analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning—for all involved—of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers.

Veiled Sentiments

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Jose Porfirio Miranda

Robert R. Barr

Communism in the Bible

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Dick Hebdige

The Meaning of Style

This book looks at the UK's postwar, music-centred white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads to punks. (Adapted from back cover) Contents include: - From culture to hegemony - Case studies - The function of subculture - Style as intentional communication - Style as homology.

Subculture

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Katherine Scully

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