Anthropology - Soc Sci

An illuminating introduction to the methods and problems of social anthropology, this book draws on a wide range of illustrations, including Raymond Firth's own experiences in New Zealand, Malaya and the Solomon Islands...

What makes an elite? This authoritative new volume examines elite groups in power across Europe, North America, Mexico, Peru, Indonesia and Africa to answer this question fully at a time of their increasing dominance...

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This book examines the origins and development of human forms of organized violence from an anthropological and archaeological perspective. Kim and Kissel argue that human warfare is qualitatively different from forms of lethal, intergroup v..

Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th ce..

The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying is the definitive reference source for death, dying and related concepts. It will prove an essential resource for teachers, researchers, professionals and all those with a lay interest in mortality...

Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice this book offers an original perspective on what is probably the best-known issue of the late twentieth century...

Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice this book offers an original perspective on what is probably the best-known issue of the late twentieth century...

First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols...

First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols...

This first book to systematically examine the ethical implications of the AIDS pandemic for Africa, addresses such questions as the relationship between AIDS and poverty, the responsibility of the developed world to respond to the African, the morality of private companies profiting from AIDS drugs,..

While ethnicity has become a blunt and overused concept in the anthropological vocabulary it is finding increasing currency in public language and thought. The author does not attempt to define the term but rather to understand its public life...