'Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Reihe von Fallstudien, die die Nutzung der Literalität in trad...

Die zentrale Frage dieses Buches: wie kam es, daß sich etwa ab 300 nach Christus bestimmte allgem...

Der Übergang von der Mündlichkeit zur Schriftlichkeit und die Ablösung verschiedener Schriftsyste...

A survey of democratic institutions and republics reveals the aristocratic origins of democracy.

This book assesses the impact of writing on human societies, both in the Ancient Near East and in...

Defining lies as statements that are intended to deceive, this book considers the contexts in whi...

An examination of the importance of writing on the development of different societies.

This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different tradition...

Continuing the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Developmen...

The focus of this book is on the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its...

A provocative, wide-ranging study which challenges our assumptions about Eastern 'backwardness'.

Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential cri...

This 1979 text addresses the strong criticism of dominant theories in large areas of Western soci...

An original and innovative study of the pre-eminently social character of human ecological relati...

Whilst the fundamental significance of the spoken language for human interaction is widely acknow...

The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the ...

The focus of this book is on the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its...

One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central histori...

In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly i...

Addresses a core historical question: does the European Renaissance deserve its status at the hea...

In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, r...

The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have ...

Both biologists and social scientists have much to say about human behaviour. Yet attempts to com...

In this book, the author provides a detailed analysis of kinship, household and family relations ...

Social scientists, when making their studies of the structure of family groups, have often observ...

This book is a critique of the experiments of recent years that tried to teach language to apes. ...

In these insightful 1973 papers two leading authorities make a wide-ranging review of ideas and m...

Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their head. What had pre...

Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes ...

This book is an attempt to see the development of domestic institutions, the family, marriage, co...

Explores the ethnic separatisms and 'neo-nationalisms' that threatened to undermine the fragile s...

David Lane provides a contextual understanding of Lenin's writings and their relevance to contemp...

This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europ...

This collection brings together Emrys Peters' major writings on the Bedouin of Libya.

This collection brings together Emrys Peters' major writings on the Bedouin of Libya.

Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in t...

Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists' and their theories in anthropol...

A collection of specially commissioned essays dealing with general aspects of kinship, family and...

If faraway peoples have different ideas from our own, is this because they have different mentali...

Current theories and views on the differences in the 'mind' of human societies depend very much o...

Reviewing the course of English population history from 1066 to the eighties, this book challenge...

Originally published in 1967 (second edition) presents an account of the life and social organisa...

Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Gh...

Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects of traditional African social ...

A landmark exploration of the role of metals across Europe and Asia from the Bronze Age to the In...

This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history. F...

A subversive thinker draws out the historical significance of the most intimate corners of our li...

The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human...