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The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. …
Provides an account of how bodily (or incorporated) practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions.
This text analyzes ritual kinship, patron-client relations and friendship, looking at them as mechanisms of social exchange, examining their impact on the institutional structures …
Defining lies as statements that are intended to deceive, this book considers the contexts in which people tell lies, how they are detected and sometimes exposed, and the …
Explores the ethnic separatisms and 'neo-nationalisms' that threatened to undermine the fragile stability of the world order in the early 1980s.
This book considers the contexts in which people tell lies and explores the consequences.
In a variety of past and present social contexts, this work analyzes the term "family" as well as notions of dwelling-place, descent, marriage, the relative roles of husband and …
Focuses on the reality of the experience of old age.
Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He criticizes those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural …
A study of the pre-eminently social character of human ecological relations.