Anthropology & Sociology

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  Social Theory

  by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
  Volume 2 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.

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  Freud and the Non-European

  by Edward W. Said
  Banned by the Freud Institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture became Edward Said's final book.
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  Scum Manifesto

  by Valerie Solanas
  Avital Ronell reconsiders Solanas in light of her social milieu.

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  God

  by Régis Debray
  Traces the episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival, with an eye on the machinery of its production.

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  Culture in the Age of Three Worlds

  by Michael Denning
  Denning analyses the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture.
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  Infinite Tropics

  by Alfred Russel Wallace
  This collection comprises Wallace’s best writing on science, nature and society.
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  Rumba on the River

  by Gary Stewart
  Rumba on the River presents a snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization collided along the banks of the Congo.
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  Where Vultures Feast

  by Oronto Douglas and Ike Okonta
  A devastating case against the world’s largest oil company.

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  The Pig and the Skyscraper

  by Marco d’Eramo
  “Serious-minded and acutely insightful social analysis.”—Bookwatch
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  Privatising Culture

  by Chin-tao Wu
  Mapping for the first time the increasingly hegemonic position that corporations and corporate elites have come to occupy in the cultural arena.
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  Crime in Literature

  by Vincenzo Ruggiero
  Addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works.
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  Malice

  by Francois Flahault
  The inner roots of malice—good and evil as inherent in the human condition.

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  Reification

  by Timothy Bewes
  “Bewes’s book is needed like daily bread.”—Slavoj Žižek
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  The World Is Not for Sale

  by José Bové and François Dufour
  Recounts the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against McDonald’s and examines the issues behind the resulting campaign.
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  Barbecued Husbands

  by Betty Mindlin
  Winner of the coveted Associacao Paulista de Criticos de Arte Prize: an anthology of the stories of the tribes of the Amazon.
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  Cinema and Desire

  by Dai Jinhua
  Dal Jinhau's commentary on Chinese cinema, culture and politics.