Books in the FOCI series

Is Britain really perceived as a nation of poorly dressed, roast-beef-eating, snaggle-toothed xenophobes? Or do the British perhaps all live in stately homes, and lead supercilious, emotionally repressed, tea-drinking lives? This title probes these and other myths, conceptions and misconceptions of Britishness.

A thoughtful, philosophical and cultural approach to the perennial question of the search for happiness.

Rather than being absorbed into a uniform modernity, indigenous people are anticipating alternative futures and appropriating global resources for their own, culturally specific needs. This book argues, controversially, that far from disappearing in the face of global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse as they ever were.