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Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense
Sundt fedt & dræberfedt
Udo Erasmus er i den internationale fedtdebat" kendt som en af de største kapaciteter på fedtforskningsområdet, og denne bog ("FATS HAT HEAL, FATS THAT KILL") er solgt i kæmpeoplag …
Blood Will Out
Unique in focus and international in scope, this book brings together 10 essays about the material, metaphorical, and symbolic importance of blood. An interdisciplinary study that …
Ghosts of Memory
Ghosts of Memory provides an overview of literature on relatedness and memory and then moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject, exploring the subtle and complex …
Cultures of Relatedness
Our understanding of what makes a person a relative has been transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements and gender relations, and by new reproductive technologies. We …
After Kinship
This innovative book takes a look at the anthropology of kinship and the comparative study of relatedness. Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology …
British Academy Lectures 2013-14
This volume publishes texts from the British Academy's 2013 and 2014 lecture programmes, which were posted to the online Journal of the British Academy in 2014. The subjects …
About the House
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, …
British Academy Lectures, 2015-16
This volume publishes lectures from the 2015 and 2016 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2016. The subjects covered include: Islam and the Great War in the Middle …
Ghosts of Memory
Ghosts of Memory provides an overview of literature on relatedness and memory and then moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject, exploring the subtle and complex …
The Heat of the Hearth
Janet Carsten offers a vivid and original investigation of nature and kinship in Malaysia, based on her own experience of life as a fister daughter in a family on the island of …
Blood Work
What is blood? How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power? In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it …