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African Railwaymen
This was the first anthropological monograph to have dealt at length with the labour force of a major East African industry. It is a study of the African employees of the East …
Dominant Languages
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the relations between power and language. Many societies are 'multilingual' throughout their history, but there is often a …
Ideologies and Institutions in Urban France
In this book, based on intensive fieldwork in a major French provincial city (Lyon), Grillo shows how an anthropological perspective enhances our understanding of institutional …
Discourses of Development
Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers think development entails and how …
Pluralism and the Politics of Difference
Is a plural, polyethnic, democratic society possible? Starting with Ernest Gellner's observation that `culturally plural societies worked well in the past', but `genuine cultural …