Books

An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commons

$26.95

Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru

A critique of the global emphasis on water’s economic value and extractivist policies, based on an ethnography of a watershed in Peru

$65.00

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Grassroots Economies

Living with Austerity in Southern Europe

Edited by Susana Narotzky

A comparative ethnography of the responses on the ground to austerity policies in Southern Europe

$33.00

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Vicious Games

Capitalism and Gambling

by Rebecca Cassidy

Based on over ten years experience working in the industry, this is an expose of the gambling business

$23.95

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When Protest Becomes Crime

Politics and Law in Liberal Democracies

by Carolijn Terwindt

How our political and legal systems criminalise protesters

$37.00

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Deepening Divides

How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World

Edited by Didier Fassin

A non-Eurocentric, interdisciplinary collection arguing that boundaries and borders are best understood as overlapping categories.

$40.00

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Climate, Capitalism and Communities

An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating

Edited by Astrid B. Stensrud and Thomas Hylland Eriksen

An anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative.

$33.00

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The Heritage Machine

Fetishism and Domination in Maragateria, Spain

by Pablo Alonso Gonzalez

A radical critique of the heritage industries.

$65.00

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Mining Encounters

Extractive Industries in an Overheated World

Edited by Robert Jan Pijpers and Thomas Hylland Eriksen

How different mining industries across the world affect landscapes, people and politics.

$65.00

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The Rise of Nerd Politics

Digital Activism and Political Change

by John Postill

A global anthropology of technology and politics, from WikiLeaks to Podemos.

$27.00

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Boomtown

Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast

by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

An anthropological study of a community 'marinated' in fossil fuels, fraught by ambivalence and conflict.

$33.00

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What is Anthropology?

by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

A new edition of the classic anthropology textbook which shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world

$22.95

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