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  • - The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms
    by Frank Salomon
    £33.99

    Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies, providing remarkable insight into the functioning of these 'chiefdoms', and emphasizing their importance for the understanding of rank, inequality, privilege and central power in stateless societies.

  • - An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market
    by Switzerland) Hertz & Ellen (Universite de Lausanne
    £39.99 - 87.99

    In 1992, an explosion of 'stock fever' hit Shanghai. Ellen Hertz's anthropological 1998 study sets the stock market and its players in the context of Shanghai society, and probes the dominant role played by the state, which has yielded a stock market very different from those of the West.

  • - Descent, Succession and Inheritance among the Toka of Zambia
    by Ladislav Holy
    £29.99

    The theme of this book is the analysis of the changes that have occurred in the kinship patterns of the Toka of South Zambia as a result of a shift in their form of production from hoe agriculture to ox-drawn ploughing.

  • - Studies in Personal and Corporate Power
    by Emrys L. Peters
    £48.99 - 106.49

    This collection brings together Emrys Peters' major writings on the Bedouin of Libya.

  • - Learning and Identification in Angang
    by Charles (University of Cambridge) Stafford
    £39.99 - 83.49

    This 1995 book describes learning and the process of childhood in Angang, a fishing community in south-eastern Taiwan, and the ways in which children learn, consciously and unconsciously, about forms of identification both as children within the family and as citizens of the nation.

  • by Pierre (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Bourdieu
    £25.99

    Pierre Bourdieu, a French anthropologist, develops his theory of symbolic power through a materialistic approach, which he analyses symbolic capital and the different modes of domination. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions.

  • - A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962
    by Joelle (Indiana University) Bahloul
    £20.49 - 87.99

    Recalling life in a single household occupied by several Jewish and Muslim families, in the generation before Algerian independence, Joelle Bahloul's informants build up a micro-history of a period which came to an end in the early 1960s.

  • - The Politics of Schooling
    by University of Texas, Arlington) Reed-Danahay & Deborah (Professor of Anthropology
    £29.99 - 83.49

    In an ethnographic study of a remote community in the Auvergne, Dr Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the French school system and demonstrates how parents subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers. This book offers fresh insights into the ways in which French culture is transmitted to the coming generation.

  • - Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania
    by Maia (University of Manchester) Green
    £31.99 - 83.49

    In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania, and discusses how Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania in the historical context of colonial mission. It will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African studies.

  • - An Essay in the Family Sociology of the Gonja of Northern Ghana
    by Esther N. (New Hall Goody
    £41.99

    In her study of domestic organization in Gonja, Esther Goody has concentrated on tracing the interrelationships between political and domestic institutions in a bilateral kinship system.

  • - Kin, State, Nation
    by John Borneman
    £51.99

    This is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War. Borneman shows how ideas of kin, state, and nation were constructed through processes of mirror imaging and misrecognition. Using linguistics and narrative analysis he compares the autobiographies of two generations of Berlin's residents with the official versions prescribed by the two German states.

  • by Thomas Crump
    £34.49

    Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. This detailed anthropological study examines how people from a wide range of cultures and historical backgrounds use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, linguistical and psychological implications, the author analyses how numbers operate within different contexts.

  • - Kinship and Society in Lower Brittany, 1720-1980
    by Martine Segalen
    £39.99

    Following a community of Breton peasants over fifteen generations, Martine Segalen traces the effects of economic changes on family life and analyses the strategies of marriage alliance and inheritance which were used to shore up social hierarchies. She thus reveals the importance of kinship networks in social intercourse, both today and in the past.

  • - Land, Late Marriage, and Bastardy, 1870-1978
    by Brian Juan O'Neill
    £50.99

    Based both on extensive fieldwork and detailed study of local records, O'Neill offers a different perspective to the traditional image of northern Iberian mountain settlements.

  • - Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age
    by Bernardo Bernadi & Bernardo Bernardi
    £35.49

    Bernardo Bernardi, one of the pioneers of the anthropological study of age class systems, provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems by analysing cross-culturally their common features and the pattern of their differences, and showing that they serve a general purpose for the organization of society and for the distribution and rotation of power.

  • - History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina
    by Maurice Bloch
    £36.49

    The author provides a detailed description and analysis of the Merina circumcision ritual today, offers an account of its history, and discusses the significance of his analysis for anthropological theories of ritual in general.

  • - A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand
    by Jane Bunnag
    £29.99

    Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This is a systematic anthropological study of monastic organization and monk-layman interaction in a purely urban context in the countries where Theravada Buddhism is practised, namely, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Laos and Thailand.

  • by Jacques Lizot
    £22.99

  • - Class and Kinship in South China
    by Rubie S. Watson
    £29.99

    Using historical documents and evidence gathered in the field, Rubie Watson provides a social history of the 600-year-old Chinese lineage village of Ha Tsuen in the New Territories of Hong Kong, and demonstrates the crucial role that the lineage played in the evolution of the community from a few scattered households in the fourteenth century into a regional power from the 1700s onwards.

  • - A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation
    by Peter Riviere
    £29.99

    In this book, Peter Riviere employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid and amorphous, are in fact much more highly structured than they first appear, and he identifies certain common patterns of social organization that result from sets of individual choices and relationships.

  • - Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya
    by Maurice Godelier
    £39.99

    Godelier discusses both the power that certain men (the Great men) have over others through their control of war, shamanism, hunting, and rites of initiation, as well as the extraordinary power and domination that men in general exert over women.

  • - Foundations of Anthropological Enquiry
    by Ladislav Holy & Milan Stuchlik
    £29.99

    The nature of social reality, and its availability to the observer, remains a fundamental methodological problem for the social anthropologist. In this book the authors argue that the difference between these two kinds of data is not merely a casual difference in the way in which the information comes to the anthropologist.

  • by Frank Harary & Per Hage
    £35.49

    Structural analysis in the social sciences has an extensive history. Frequently, however, it has been undertaken largely on the basis of intuition and common sense alone. In this book Per Hage and Frank Harary reveal the deeper insights into social and cultural structures that can be obtained through the application of graph theory.

  • by Keith Hart
    £38.99

    West Africa's agriculture has, for 150 years, been heavily geared toward export, yet the region is one of the world's poorest. Keith Hart examines this question, focusing particularly on how this situation has affected the indigenous peoples of West Africa.

  • - Symbol, Function, History
    by Marc Auge
    £29.99

    Anthropology is both outside of history and within it. Histories of anthropology tend to summarise particular authors' intellectual differences; but, as Marc Auge argues in this book, first published in English in 1982, these differences may be intrinsically derived from intellectual divisions within anthropology as obvious as they are irreconcilable.

  • - Reindeer Economies and their Transformations
    by Tim Ingold
    £29.99

    In this book, drawing on ethnographic material from North America and Eurasia, Tim Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations between hunting, pastoralism and ranching, each based on the same animal in the same environment, and each viewed in terms of a particular conjunction of social and ecological relations of production.

  • - Society and Symbolic Structures
    by Luc de Heusch
    £29.99

    This collection of essays on the themes of social organization, kinship and religion provides an excellent guide for English-speaking scholars to the understanding of French structuralist thought. Upon publication, this was the first time that Luc de Heusch's important book Pourquoi l'epouser? (Editions Gallimard, 1971) had appeared in English.

  • by Gilbert Lewis
    £31.99

    Anthropologists, in studying other cultures, are often tempted to offer their own explanations of strange customs when they feel that the people involved have not given a good enough reason for these customs. The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of customs which go beyond those offered by the people themselves runs through this book.

  • - A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain
    by Jack Goody
    £20.49

    Examines development of domestic institutions, the family, marriage, conjugal roles, in relation to changes in the mode of productive activity, specifically the change from hoe to plough agriculture. In contrasts Africa, on the one hand, to Asia and Europe, on the other.

  • - A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background
    by S. J. Tambiah
    £36.49

    World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity (political organization) in Thailand.

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