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Visual Anthropology - Photography as a Research Method by John Collier; Malcom Collier; Edward T. Hall (Foreword by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1967, Visual Anthropology has become a classic in its field, invaluable not only for anthropologists but for anyone using photography, film, and video to understand human behavior and culture. This completely revised and expanded edition brings the technical information up to date and ...Show more
Bodily Boundaries, Sexualised Genders & Medical Discourses by Marion de Ras and Victoria Grace (eds)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
Dangerous Liaisons - Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives by Anne McClintock (Editor); Aamir Mufti (Contribution by); Ella Shohat (Contribution by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Studies in Classical Philology Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Most people in the world, from Africa to Asia and beyond, live in the aftermath of colonialism. Their day-to-day lives are defined by their past history as colonized peoples, often in ways that are subtle or hard to define. Here contributors address the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, consi ...Show more
Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in our Changing World by Lily Cole
$18.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: near fine
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more
Mapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation by Margaret Wetherell and Jonathan Potter
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
The topics of 'race' and 'racism' are often treated narrowly and unimaginatively in social scientific literature; they are usually viewed as sub-categories of 'stereotyping' or 'prejudice' or 'social class.' In this exciting new book, Margaret Wetherell and Jonathan Potter extend their work on the use o ...Show more
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald
$12.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
The founding principle of the United States was that the rule of law would be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, this principle has been eviscerated. Starting with Watergate, continuing on through the fraud that caused th ...Show more
Ruth Benedict - Patterns of a Life by Judith Modell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Up Close and Personal - On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge by Cris Shore (Editor); Susanna Trnka (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Methodology and History in Anthropology Volume 25 | Reading Level: very good
Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shif ...Show more
Trans America: A Counter-History by Barry Reay
$18.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability in American history? How well known is it that a previous period of trans visibility in the 1960s and earl ...Show more
On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies by Anna Smith and Lydia Wevers (eds.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
On Display is a stimulating collection of essays about the politics of display. The authors are some of the leading New Zealand scholars active in the interdisciplinary space called 'Cultural Studies', and their subjects range from colonial museum exhibitions, to nationalist cultural display, to contemp ...Show more
The Snowden Files: The True Inside Story on the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
It began with an unsigned email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community". What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. The consequences have shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, from Obama to Cameron, to the presidents of Brazi ...Show more
Romulus or The Future of The Child by Robert T. Lewis
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Today and Tomorrow | Reading Level: very good