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  • By Degrees

    by David Tait ...
    Written from Shanghai with a global perspective, By Degrees bears witness to the surreality and devastation of day-to-day life in the midst of a pandemic. Ghastly football matches, Skype funerals, and innumerable candles lit for the dead are recorded with disbelief, with horror, and with heart-rending empathy. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Self-Portrait with the Happiness

    by David Tait ...
    Part self-portrait, part love affair, the poems in Self-Portrait with The Happiness are obsessed with moments elsewhere. Rural England contends with immense Chinese cities via Thailand and Japan. The effect is a collection which craves the exotic in the everyday: puppeteers communicating through their puppets, sonnets sketched on the snowy rooftops of cars and Chinese dragons flying above the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Obama

    The Historic Presidency of Barack Obama - Updated Edition

    by Mark Greenberg, David M. Tait, David Tait ...
    A vibrant celebration of President Obama, this stunning commemorative book provides a valuable record of his historical presidency and the years since he left office.It has now been more than two years since Barack Obama concluded his historic two-term presidency. Through stunning images by White House photographers and others, as well as notable essays and quotes from a broad spectrum of people, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Konkomba of Northern Ghana

    Edited From His Published and Unpublished Writings by Jack Goody

    by David Tait ...
    Series series African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
    Originally published in 1964 this book made available for the first time David Tait's writings on the Konkomba with whom he lived and worked for 5 years. Including some previously unpublished material, this volume discusses the political system of the Konkomba but includes aspects of social and religious life. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Tribes Without Rulers

    Studies in African Segmentary Systems

    by John Middleton, David Tait ...
    Recent research in Africa has shown a wide range of political systems, from small societies of wandering hunters to large states of several million people comparable with mediaeval European feudal kingdoms. In between are many societies in which a central government is lacking; the political system is based upon a balance of power between many small groups, which with their lack of classes or ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Juries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror

    The Case of the Sydney Bomber

    Edited by David Tait, Jane Goodman-Delahunty ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Terrorism has become an everyday reality in most contemporary societies. In a context of heightened fear can juries be trusted to remain impartial when confronted by defendants charged with terrorism? Do they scrutinize prosecution cases carefully, or does emotion trump reason once the spectre of terrorism is invoked? This book examines these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • African Political Systems

    by Meyer Fortes ...
    One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a contribution to the discipline of comparative politics. We feel sure that the first object has been attained, for the societies described are representative of common types of African political systems and, taken together, they enable a student to appreciate the ... Read more

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  • The Tiv of Central Nigeria

    Western Africa Part VIII

    by Laura Bohannan, Paul Bohannan ...
    Series Book 8 - Ethnographic Survey of Africa
    Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:Physical ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Craft and the Kingly Ideal

    Art, Trade, and Power

    by Mary W. Helms ...
    In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from?In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W. Helms explores the power attributed to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Poverty and the Quest for Life

    Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India

    by Bhrigupati Singh ...
    The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers, officially classified as Rajasthan's only "primitive tribe." From afar, we might consider this the bleakest of the bleak, but in Poverty and the Quest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Castes of Mind

    Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
    When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Document Raj

    Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India

    by Bhavani Raman ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in Document Raj, uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival research in the files of the East India Company’s administrative offices in Madras, she tells the story of a ... Read more

    $40.39 USD