Mary Douglas was one of the most regarded anthropologists of the 20th Century. This is a collecti...

Tiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon ...

Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cam...

Counterworks argues that the apparent oppostion between strong westernizing forces and a weak con...

This is the first collection of Franz Steiner's keynote papers on comparative economics and the c...

Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newl...

Written in the last two decades of her life, Cultures and Crises finds Mary Douglas developing an...

Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. Ho...

This is the first collection of Franz Steiner's keynote papers on comparative economics and the c...

This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social a...

This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europ...

Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newl...

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of cent...

This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europ...

Franz Baermann Steiners, in Form und Bedeutung äußerst vielfältiges, theoretisches Werk erscheint...

In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of cont...

Marla C. Berns is director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Richard Fardon is professor of West Afri...

A biting satire on corruption, Xala set the standard for the new wave of African cinema. This is ...

Marla C. Berns is director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Richard Fardon is professor of West Afri...