Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestig...

The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernization, as reflected in the changing nature of we...

Recalling the way they lived in a single Algerian house that was occupied by several families, Je...

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

This is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and t...

Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spi...

The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of customs which go beyond those ...

Little has been written about honour in the social sciences and almost nothing about grace. Yet h...

One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthrop...

Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on th...

Dr Frankel's study of the rapid transformation of traditional medical care among the Huli of New ...

This study of religious change and cultural fragmentation in contemporary Sri Lanka focuses on a ...

In 1992, there was an explosion of 'stock fever' in Shanghai. 'From the moment I set foot in Shan...

This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep r...

Neapolitan scholar Italo Pardo has produced a thoughtful and original account of the moral life o...

Dr Tambiah describes the religious practices and beliefs of the people of a remote village in nor...

Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Tur...

The Amerindian peoples of Guiana have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the t...

Goody concentrates on interrelationships between political and domestic institutions in a bilater...

Drawing on an ethnographic study of a remote community in the Auvergne, Dr. Reed-Danahay challeng...

Based on field research in eastern Finland not far from the Russian border, this book is an accou...

The theme of this book is the analysis of the changes that have occurred in the kinship patterns ...

In the last twenty years, immigration has become one of the most contested issues in Western Euro...

Meyer Fortes (1906 1982) was one of the foremost anthropologists of this century, who for many ye...

The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who...

The book is an integrated account of a Northwest Amazonian society, which elucidates the structur...

In 1992, an explosion of 'stock fever' hit Shanghai. Ellen Hertz's anthropological study sets the...

Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblemati...

Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and...

Roy Ellen has studied the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than twenty years. He is a ...

This is the most comprehensive book on Javanese religion since Geertz's famous study of 1960.

This anthropological account of a Catholic community in East Africa reveals how Catholicism came ...

Originally published in 1949, this book takes the analysis of Tale social structure further. It s...

A comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance and a study of its main componen...

Examines why West Africa's agriculture has been heavily geared toward export, yet the region is o...

Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and...

In this book Tim Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations between hunting, pa...

The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual.

An ethnographic account, examining specific situations of friction, conflict and co-operation bet...

One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and res...

In the Mount Hagen area of central New Guinea, warfare has been replaced since the arrival of the...

In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be rewo...

Continuing a policy of devoting a whole issue to a single topic, the third volume of the series d...

This book explores the extensive family and kinship ties of West Indians in Jamaica and Guyana.

South coast New Guinea has long been a focus of ethnographic attention, with its varied cultures,...

This innovative study presents an account of the interaction of people from different ethnic back...

One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthrop...

Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Tur...