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Quiet Days in Burgundy
This ethnographic study of political life in the department of the Yonne, in the Burgundy region, explores a still richly Balzacian provincial world. The author, a French …
The Roads of Chinese Childhood
Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in …
The Cultural Relations of Classification
Ethnobiology is concerned with the social and cultural transformation of biological knowledge. Roy Ellen, who has worked among the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than …
Fifteen Generations of Bretons
This study traces the effects of economic changes on a community of Breton peasants followed over fifteen generations.
Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society
Among the Berti of Northern Darfur (Sudan), as among many Muslim societies, the formal religious practices are predominantly the concern of men, while local, unorthodox customary …
Age Class Systems
This study of age class systems provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems.
From Blessing to Violence
Structural Models in Anthropology
Hage and Harary present a comprehensive introduction to the use of graph theory in social and cultural anthropology.
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
In this study Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies.
Australian Kin Classification
This study aims to resolve the century-old debate about the nature of Australian aboriginal societies.
The Bedouin of Cyrenaica
Emrys Peters studied the Bedouin of Libya for more than thirty years. The handful of articles published during his lifetime were widely admired and are still essential reading for …
Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt
This study of Egyptian popular culture provides fresh and vital insights into the long struggle of modern Egypt to define its identity. Armbrust examines Egyptian television, …