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World Conqueror and World Renouncer
World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity (political organization) in Thailand. The …
Women and Property in Morocco
This is a study of the effects of 'modernization' on the social and economic world of women in Morocco. Vanessa Maher suggests that three systems of social stratification modify …
Why Marry Her?
This collection of essays on the themes of social organization, kinship and religion provides an excellent guide for English-speaking scholars to the understanding of French …
Varieties of Javanese Religion
Java is famous for its combination of diverse cultural forms and religious beliefs. Andrew Beatty considers Javanese solutions to the problem of cultural difference, and explores …
Tradition as Truth and Communication
Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its …
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 …
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 …
Traders Without Trade
The word dyula means 'trader' in the Manding language. It is also the name of certain Manding-speaking ethnic minorities in parts of northern Ivory Coast, who, for centuries before …
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 Sacred Void
In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological …
The Rope of Moka
In the Mount Hagen area of central New Guinea, warfare has been replaced since the arrival of the Europeans by a vigorous development of moka, a competitive ceremonial exchange of …
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 …