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  • Roadkill

    Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars

    **One of the Financial Times’ Best Environment, Science, and Technology Books of the Year, 2025Explore the financial, social, ethical, and environmental impacts of our obsession with, and dependency on, cars. Learn how to change the way we use them.**Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars, by Professor Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay, explores the philosophical ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Subject of Anthropology

    Gender, Symbolism and Psychoanalysis

    In this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Arguing that the Oedipus complex is no longer the fulcrum of debate between anthropology and psychoanalysis, she demonstrates how recent theorizing on subjectivity, agency and culture has opened up new ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Roadkill

    Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars

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    5 hours 57 min

    Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars, by Professor Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay, explores the philosophical implications of car culture, as well as the practical impacts it has on your money, your taxes, your neighborhood, your planet, your health, and your happiness.While the car has been marketed as a symbol of "freedom", the authors convincingly argue that it ... Read more

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  • Magical Interpretations, Material Realities

    Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

    **'**Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Africa. The theme of "witchcraft" has long been associated with exoticizing portraits of a "traditional" Africa, but this volume takes the question of occult as a point of entry into the moral politics of some very modern African realities.' - James Ferguson, University of California, USA ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Feminism and Anthropology

    Series series Feminist Perspectives
    This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and balanced assessment of, the theoretical and practical issues raised by the development of a feminist anthropology.Henrietta Moore situates the development of a feminist approach in anthropology within the context of the discipline, examining the ways in ... Read more

    $34.00 CAD

  • Still Life

    Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions

    How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'.Rather than beginning with abstract processes and flows, Moore starts by analyzing the hopes, desires and satisfactions of individuals in their day-to-day ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A Passion for Difference

    Essays in Anthropology and Gender

    In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexuality.Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human subject. She then considers why anthropologists have contributed relatively little to these debates, and suggests that ... Read more

    $28.75 CAD

  • Those Who Play With Fire

    Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa

    Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Anthropology in Theory

    Issues in Epistemology

    This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century.Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theoryRevised ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Sociality

    New Directions

    Series Book 1 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    The notion of 'sociality' is now widely used within the social sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term varies radically, and the contributors here, through compelling and wide ranging essays, identify the strengths and weaknesses of current definitions and their deployment in the social sciences. By developing their own rigorous and innovative theory of human sociality, they re ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The State We're In

    Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles

    Series Book 3 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality, and exploring its relevance to countries ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Social Life of Achievement

    Series Book 2 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    What happens when people “achieve”? Why do reactions to “achievement” vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD