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The Cinema of Robert Gardner Best Price: $104.95 The most artistic of ethnographic filmmakers, and the most ethnographic of artistic filmmakers,...	Germany, 1871-1945: A Concise History Best Price: $27.44 At the end of the Second World War, the first unified German state collapsed, a disintegration...	Society and Psyche: Social Theory and the Unconscious Dimension of the Social Best Price: $16.85 Providing interpretations and drawing critically from classical and modern social theory,...	Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance: A Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village Best Price: $25.00 Where does 'the self' in 'myself' begin and end? And what do ideas of...	Religion, Dress and the Body (Dress, Body, Culture) Best Price: $55.31 This book lets us peek into the way cultures that have a religious base actually use clothing to...



Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France Best Price: $26.95 At the end of World War II, over 20,000 French people accused of collaboration with Germany...	Mallarmé on Fashion: A Translation of the Fashion Magazine La Dernière Mode, with Commentary Best Price: $16.47 In 1874, Stéphane Mallarmé, the great French poet, undertook a highly idiosyncratic...	Animals in Person: Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Intimacies Best Price: $26.70 Our relationship with animals is complex and contradictory: we hunt, kill, and eat them, yet we...	Armenia: A Brief History With 3,000 years of history, Armenia is strategically located at the crossroads between East and...	Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction (Wenner-Gren International Symposium) Best Price: $53.00 The book attempts for the first time to explore the underlying properties of social interaction...



Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge Best Price: $48.79 Keith Kahn-Harris' book on extreme metal started out as a PhD thesis caled...	Fashion's World Cities (Cultures of Consumption) Best Price: $54.98 New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of...	Cultural Politics, Volume 2, Issue 1: Special Issue: Just Targets (Cultural Politics (Berg)) Best Price: $4.00 Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and...	The Fashion Reader Best Price: $115.92 The Fashion Reader is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary...	Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities Best Price: $98.03 The past 25 years has seen an extraordinary boom in a new kind of cultural complex: the memorial...

Globalization: The Key Concepts Best Price: $15.74 The causes and the effects of globalization are hotly disputed and the book aims to present the...	Material Religion: v. 3, Issue 2: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief From Shinto shrines to rosary beads, thangka paintings to missionary tracts, mass-produced...	Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria Best Price: $8.58 By now, it would seem that every facet of the Nazi attack on Jewish culture had been told. But...	Armenia: A Brief History With 3,000 years of history, Armenia is strategically located at the crossroads between East and...	Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction (Wenner-Gren International Symposium) Best Price: $53.00 The book attempts for the first time to explore the underlying properties of social interaction...

Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge Best Price: $48.79 Keith Kahn-Harris' book on extreme metal started out as a PhD thesis caled...	Fashion's World Cities (Cultures of Consumption) Best Price: $54.98 New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of...	Cultural Politics, Volume 2, Issue 1: Special Issue: Just Targets (Cultural Politics (Berg)) Best Price: $4.00 Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and...	The Fashion Reader Best Price: $115.92 The Fashion Reader is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary...	Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities Best Price: $98.03 The past 25 years has seen an extraordinary boom in a new kind of cultural complex: the memorial...

Globalization: The Key Concepts Best Price: $15.74 The causes and the effects of globalization are hotly disputed and the book aims to present the...	Material Religion: v. 3, Issue 2: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief From Shinto shrines to rosary beads, thangka paintings to missionary tracts, mass-produced...	Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria Best Price: $8.58 By now, it would seem that every facet of the Nazi attack on Jewish culture had been told. But...	Jihad Beyond Islam Best Price: $120.18 "Jihad" is a highly charged word. Often mistranslated as "Holy War", it has...	Film Fables (Talking Images) Best Price: $25.05 Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema, moving effortlessly from Eisenstein's and...

The National Fabric: Fashion, Britishness, Globalization (Dress, Body, Culture) Best Price: $21.99 British fashion is characterized by oppositions: punk versus pageantry, anarchy versus monarchy,...	The Smell Culture Reader (Sensory Formations) Best Price: $21.00 Here is a much-needed overview of what is arguably our most elusive sense. Sight and hearing...	Cultural Revolutions: The Politics of Everyday Life in Britain, North America and France Best Price: $22.92	The Anthropology of Islam Best Price: $20.00 For anthropological students of Islam, the author opines: "I shall suggest that emotions...	The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact (Talking Images) Best Price: $7.98 This review is admittedly brief and frankly only directed at those familiar with...

Tartan (Textiles That Changed the World) Best Price: $35.60 It is hard to imagine that a pattern for cloth would ever be declared illegal. Tartan, however,...	Cultural Politics Volume 2 Issue 2 Best Price: $5.59 Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and...	The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings Best Price: $65.94 The study of animals - and the relationship between humans and other animals - is now one of the...	Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women) Best Price: $15.00 Dress is one of the most significant markers of gender identity, yet is only rarely explored in...	The Anthropology of Europe: Identities and Boundaries in Conflict (Explorations in Anthropology) Best Price: $34.93 This is the first study of Europe post-1989 from an anthropological perspective. Thirteen...

A Social History of France in the 19th Century Best Price: $27.99 This essential overview for history students and general readers introduces and analyses the...	Rise and Shine: Sunlight, Technology and Health Best Price: $72.00 Sunshine plays an important role in all aspects of life but there has been little social...	Cotton (Textiles That Changed the World) Best Price: $67.88 This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton....	A Cultural History of Fashion in the Twentieth Century: From the Catwalk to the Sidewalk Best Price: $18.89 Modern fashion is a `concept' that many people find fascinating. Particular periods have...	City of Panic (Culture Machine) Best Price: $17.96 Written in the shadow of war, City of Panic argues that cities everywhere have been the...

Fashion Theory Volume 11 Issues 2 and 3 (v. 11, Issues 2 & 3) Best Price: $29.38 This special issue of Fashion Theory is a special issue focusing on Muslim fashions.	Thinking Through Craft Best Price: $104.83 Co-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London This book is a timely...	Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions Best Price: $19.57 Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions delivers an approach to understanding theoretical...	The Acropolis: Global Fame, Local Claim (Materializing Culture) by Yalouri	The Design of Everyday Life (Cultures of Consumption) How do common household items such as basic plastic house wares or high-tech digital cameras...

New Media (The Key Concepts) Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. Global communications, mobile...	Cinema (Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture) Cinema: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates,...	Designing Things (text only) by P. Boradkar Best Price: $40.31 Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects [Paperback]Prasad Boradkar...	Reversing Industrial Decline: British Economic Policy in International Perspective This book offers new and radical views on British industrial decline and policies to remedy it.	Marxist Historiography in Transformation: New Orientations in Recent East German History Best Price: $28.50 Even before the revolution in 1989, East German historians had moved away from purely Marxist...

Dorothy L. Sayers: Solving the Mystery of Wickedness (Berg Women's Series) Best Price: $79.95 Many readers of the books of Dorothy L.Sayers are unaware of her other skills, as a medieval...	War and Society in 20th Century France Presents a vivid picture of the various ways in which the French people experienced war:...	British in Germany, 1918-1930: The Reluctant Occupiers The author examines British involvement in the Rhineland, Danzig, Upper Silesia, Schleswig and...	The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (Senses and Sensibilities S.) Best Price: $23.92 I have read half of this book for my thesis. It is useful in that it compiles a lot of...	Anthropology and Science: Epistemologies in Practice (ASA Monographs (Berg Hardcover)) Best Price: $71.99 What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is...

The Senses and Society: v. 2, Issue 3 A heightened interest in the role of the senses in society is sweeping the social sciences,...	Hollywood's American Tragedies Best Price: $6.50 This is old-school-is-new-school film history, taking a well-worn genre in film studies...	A Beautiful Game: Internaitonal Perspectives on Women's Football Best Price: $104.92 FIFA, the world governing body of association football, declared 'The Future is...	Food Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods Best Price: $19.84 This title is a guide to doing research in the burgeoning field of food studies. Designed for...	Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body Best Price: $120.95 Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates...

Histories of Leisure (Leisure, Consumption and Culture) Best Price: $32.28 In the wake of the American and French revolutions, European culture saw the evolution of a new...	Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture (Dress, Body, Culture) Best Price: $102.89 "How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West...	Design and Creativity Design and other creative industries not only shape our lives in numerous ways, providing...	The Anthropology of Europe: Identities and Boundaries in Conflict (Explorations in Anthropology) Best Price: $78.54 This is the first study of Europe post-1989 from an anthropological perspective. Thirteen...	The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink (Sensory Formations) Best Price: $25.00 From Eve's apple to Proust's madeleine to today's culinary tourism, food looms large...

Engaging Anthropology Best Price: $107.05 Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the...	The Nature of Magic: An Anthropology of Consciousness Best Price: $23.67 This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion--Western witches, druids,...	The Anthropology of Death	Art, Time and Technology (Culture Machine Series,) Best Price: $109.70 This book explores how the practice of art, in particular of avant-garde art, keeps our relation...	Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis Best Price: $27.60 Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and...

War Experiences in Rural Germany: 1914-1923 (Legacy of the Great War) Best Price: $96.26 This pathbreaking book paints a vivid picture of the dynamics of total war on rural communities,...	The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Cultures of Consumption) Best Price: $26.49 Ranging from the United States to contemporary Papua New Guinea, and from the European Union to...	Fashion Theory Set (v. 1) Berg are pleased to offer a special set comprised of the full range of back issues from volumes...	Army, Industry and Labour in Germany, 1914-1918 (Legacy of the Great War) Best Price: $36.24 Gerald D. Feldman examined the dynamic triangular relationship of the German army, industry, and...	Benthams in Russia, 1780-1791 (Anglo-Russian Affinities Series) This book describes the adventures in Russia of Samuel Bentham, the brother of the famous...

Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (Berg Ethnic Identities Series) Best Price: $74.94 - Directly relevant to the needs of teachers and researchers in music, musicology,...	The Poetics of Scepticism: Gottfried Keller and Die Leute von Seldwyla (Berg Monographs in German Literature) Best Price: $79.95 Gottfried Keller is arguably the greatest prose writer of 19th century Switzerland. This study...	Mme. de Stael (Berg Women's Series) Best Price: $84.53	Elizabeth Gaskell (Berg Women's Series)	Barren States: The Population Implosion in Europe Best Price: $102.11 The fertility rate has dramatically declined across Europe in recent years. Globally over 64...

The Anthropology of Sex Best Price: $15.24 Sex scholarship has a long history in anthropology, from the studies of voyeuristic Victorian...	Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies Best Price: $6.97 Power has long been a central preoccupation of social and cultural analysis. Culture and Power ...	Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport: Male Identity and Rock Climbing Best Price: $8.63 This book offers the first in depth study of this one particular extreme sport, rock climbing,...	Changing Fashion (Dress, Body, Culture) Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes....	Ellen Glasgow

German and American Constitutional Thought: Contexts, Interaction and Historical Realities Contexts, Interaction and Historical Realities (Germany & the United States of America) Best Price: $93.24 Legal, political and social historians compare the constitutional histories of Germany and the...	Naturalism in the European Novel: New Critical Perspectives (Berg European Studies Series) Best Price: $108.96 Naturalism was the dominant movement in European literary culture during the second half of the...	Immigration and Identity in Beur Fiction: Voices From the North African Community in France (French Studies) Narrative works by second-generation Maghrebis in France, popularly known as Beurs, are a...	1992: Struggle for Europe All the economic research into 1992 was commissioned and paid for by the European Commission...	Western Conceptions of the Individual Best Price: $29.99 Brian Morris is Professor Emeritus (retired) of Anthropology @ University of London. He's...

Vasiliy Grossman: The Genesis and Evolution of a Russian Heretic Vasiliy Grossman (1905-1964) is now regarded as one of the major Russian prose writers of this...	Bilingual Women: Anthropological Approaches to Second Language Use (Cross Cultural Perspectives on Women) Best Price: $3.50 Bilingual research literature very rarely distinguishes gender issues in second language use and...

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