Anthropology - Soc Sci

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Published in 1998, this book breaks new ground by drawing together eminent academics from a variety of disciplines including; anthropology, history, law, linguistics, politics, psychology and sociology, to examine the way in which issues of identity have impacted on society and the way in which chan..

Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture...

The popular appeal of the ballad is perennial, and few literary genres give so much pleasure to so many kinds of people. This anthology, first published in 1973, is drawn from the richest ballad tradition in Britain, that of the Northeast of Scotland. It provides a fresh and original choice of songs..

A Scottish Ballad Book Pbdirect..

A Sociobiology Compendium..

For the past twenty to thirty years, control theories of crime have been at the center of theoretical development in criminology. Key to the control theory perspective is the notion that crime is an inherently individual act, and its explanation requires that we focus on the characteristics of indiv..

This multi-genre book follows the complex web of daily life of four schoolgirls, who actively connect their artistic lives both inside and outside of classrooms using photography...

This volume examines the effects of rural depopulation as a process on the structure of family and kinship within one small rural area, analysing the spatial relationships of social and economic change...

A World Full of Women..

Takes a cross-cultural approach to the study of womenA World Full of Women, 6/e, combines descriptive ethnography, gender theory, and international statistics to present a comprehensive picture of the lives of women. Readers will better comprehend and contextualize women’s issues and experiences in ..

In this work, Elizabeth Burns Coleman analyses art from an Australian Aboriginal community to interpret Aboriginal claims about the relationship between their art, identity and culture, and how the art should be protected in law. This is an issue equally relevant to North American debates about the ..