Books in the Changing Culture Series series

This 1976 study examines the Nayars of Kerala who are famous in anthropological circles because, unusually, they trace descent through the female line and, in the past, had a marriage system in which women were allowed several husbands simultaneously. Dr Fuller situates his analysis in its historical context throughout.

The Western Isles of Scotland appear to the popular imagination as romantic and remote islands where the inhabitants cling to an archaic culture which is barely integrated into modern industrial society. In this book Judith Ennew dispels such myths and confronts the social problems of an economically depressed region without denying its unique cultural aspects.

In this book, C. M. Hann traces the development of the Tazlar community in the post-war period and assesses the influence of the cooperative on its social, economic and political life. This detailed study of a community sheds light on the general mechanisms of social and economic control in state-socialist societies

Dr Benson sets the circumstances that confront interracial families within the context of wider British attitudes about race, colour and miscegenation as they developed over time. The book explores how people in London thought and felt about race, colour and social identity during the 1970s.

Judith Okely challenges popular accounts of Gypsies which suggest that they were once isolated communities, enjoying an autonomous culture and economy now largely eroded by the processes of industrialisation and western capitalism.

Dr Abrahams first lived and worked among the Nyamwezi of west-central Tanzania in the last years of British rule, and he revisited their area in 1974-5 and 1978. This book is based largely on these later visits and traces the nature of developments since his earlier work and publications on the people.

On the conclusion of the Second World War, Finland was obliged to cede its northeasternmost territory of Petsamo to the Soviet Union. The contemporary organization of the consequently resettled Skolt Lapp community in the larger of the resultant 'reservations', the Sevettijarvi area, is the subject of this 1976 study.