language, culture, and society - an introduction to linguistic anthropology, zdenek salzmann, james stanlaw, & nobuko adachi (2015), westview press, isbn 978-0-8133-4955-8

Language, Culture, and Society - An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Zdenek Salzmann, James Stanlaw, & Nobuko Adachi (2015), Westview Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-4955-8

Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Laura M. Ahearn (2012) Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-4051-2441-6

living language: an introduction to linguistic anthropology, laura m. ahearn (2012) wiley-blackwell, isbn 978-1-4051-2441-6

Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750-2015 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. xiii, 378, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9769-0.

to have it and to rely on it. The price of the book, at £90, makes it inaccessible to them. I don’t know of plans to make the book more easily available in East Africa, but it is vital that this happen. In conclusion, Doyle’s analysis is subtle and rich. The body of research on which it is based is monumental. It is a book we can all rely on in moving towards the next stage in studying the prob...

Critical Play: Radical Game Design by Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 353 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-06268-8

THE PAST DECADE HAS SEEN A RAPID EXPANSION in the field of academic writing on the subject of computer and video games. The formerly marginalized field is now receiving its scholarly due as part of an increased focus on popular culture influenced by the development of Cultural Studies departments in universities. Early contributors to this scholarly field, such as Michel de Certeau and Dick Heb...

A wild life indeed Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist Robert Trivers (2015, Plympton Press) ISBN: 978–1938972126

nationalism fi rst, including Republican candidate for the US presidency, Donald Trump, and the leader of the French Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen. Like the Leave campaign in the UK, both are offering simplistic pseudosolutions to the complex problems of today’s world, thus offering comfort to voters who may feel left behind by the rapid changes of modern times. If Trump were to be elected...