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Resources and Population
In many areas of the world destruction of natural resources and the rapid growth of populaton are among the most important problems facing individuals and governments. This book, …
Individual and Society in Guiana
The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In …
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Outline of a theory of practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, …
Fish People
Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society
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 …
Minangkabau Social Formations
In this anthropological investigation of the nature of an underdeveloped peasant economy, Joel S. Kahn attempts to develop the insights generated by Marxist theorists, by means of …
Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean
The subject of Vassos Argyrou’s study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present …
The Trading Crowd
In 1992, there was an explosion of ‘stock fever’ in Shanghai. ‘From the moment I set foot in Shanghai until my last day there, people from all walks of life wanted to talk to me …
The Anthropology of Numbers
Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and …
Parenthood and Social Reproduction
Over the last twenty years, Esther Goody has made extensive studies of traditional and contemporary patterns of education and child-rearing in West Africa. In this book she …
Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite
A study of conjugal and kin relationships in a group of urban, educated West Africans, Akan Senior Civil Servants in Accra. As well as representing a contribution to the growing …
The Making of the Modern Greek Family
This 1991 study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the …