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  • - Volume 54
    von Wazir-Jahan Karim
    71,00 €

    The Ma' Betisek are a group of aborigines who live on the mangrove coastal area of Selangor in peninsular Malaysia. This study is mainly focused on the Ma' Betisek communities on Carey Island, off the west coast of Selangor and in particular three villages - Sungei Sialang, Sungei Mata and Sungei Bumbun.

  • von Maurice Bloch
    64,00 €

    This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography.

  • - A Study of the Gnau, New Guinea Volume 52
    von Gilbert Lewis
    71,00 €

    Illness is a matter of concern in every society. This study of the occurrence, recognition and explanation of illness amongst the Gnau makes use of its author's dual training in medicine and anthropology to show why, and in what respects these people of a forest village turn to their religious and magical knowledge in the distress of illness.

  • - The Moral Use of Knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru
    von Fernando Santos-Granero
    67,00 €

    Presents an exploration of the moral use of knowledge among the Amuesga of Central Peru.

  • - Political Leadership and Economic Change Volume 53
    von Abbas Mohamed
    65,00 €

  • - A Survey of a Gold Coast Village
    von W. H. Beckett
    65,00 €

  • - A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway
    von Gutorm Gjessing
    64,00 €

  • - Revised Edition
    von J. M. Gullick
    65,00 €

    Provides an analysis of the political organization of the traditional government of the Malay Sultans before the introduction of British rule in 1874.

  • von Rosemary Firth
    65,00 €

  • von Isaac Schapera
    63,00 €

  • - Volume 41
    von Derek Freedman
    65,00 €

    The Iban or the Sea Dayaks of Sarawak have probably been the best known of the indigenous peoples of Borneo. There was little information on their methods of agriculture and their social system. This book studies the shifting cultivation and cognatic kinship organization. The field work on which this is based was undertaken from 1949 to 1951.

  • - Essays in a Comparative Perspective
    von Andre Beteille
    71,00 €

  • - Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa
    von Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders & Bwire Kaare
    64,00 €

    Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to reimagine and transform the world. This work provides a framework with which to evaluate previous ethnographic material on Africa.

  • - A Study Of Kachin Social Structure
    von E. R. Leach
    61,00 €

  • - An Anthropological Account of Alienation and Social Reproduction
    von P. Steven Sangren
    64,00 €

    Explores the links between individuals, families, communities, and the state in China through ritual and myth.

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    55,00 €

    Anthropology seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. This title contains essays that explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work and genocide, and our personal fears and desires.

  • - The Abstract Labour of German Management Consultants
    von UK.) Stein & Felix (University of Edinburgh
    64,00 €

  • - Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital
    von UK) Hull & Elizabeth (SOAS University of London
    65,00 €

  • - A Panara Ethnography
    von Elizabeth Ewart
    71,00 €

  • von Yan Yunxiang
    65,00 €

    China presents an alternative model of social transformation in the age of globalization; therefore, its path to development may have particular implications for the developing world. This work reveals how individual agency has been on the rise since the 1970s and how this has affected everyday life and Chinese society more broadly.

  • - Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth Volume 68
     
    72,00 €

    This volume provides an international analysis of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their personal, social and cosmological contexts.

  • - Essays and Diagrams
    von Alfred Gell
    66,00 €

    Collects the author's writings. This title demonstrates his theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of anthropological enquiry. It is suitable for art historians, sociologists and geographers, and includes ideas about exchange, representation, aesthetics, and spatial and temporal processes.

  • von Alan J.A. Elliott
    70,00 €

  • - Fukien and Kwantung
    von Maurice Freedman
    71,00 €

    Takes the argument set out in "Lineage Organization in South-Eastern China" a step further. This book incorporates some of Professor Freedman's field data. The author seeks to analyse certain crucial institutions of Chinese society within the framework of contemporary anthropological theory.

  • von Lucy P. Mair
    53,00 €

    Contains fourteen lectures and essays dealing with mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics discussed are land tenure, chieftainship, 'clientship', messianic movement, witchcraft, and 'race, tribalism and nationalism'.

  • - Selected Papers in Anthropology
    von Maurice Bloch
    65,00 €

    A collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility.

  • von E. R. Leach
    67,00 €

    A collection of essays from Edmund Leach, one of the original voices in the social anthropological tradition.

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