Anthropology - Soc Sci

The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience is a collection of richly textured and tremendously engaging empirical studies of cloth and clothing in colonial and post-colonial Pacific contexts...

The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Brita..

The Ballad and the Folk Pbdirect..

The Bamboo Fire..

The Baseball Glove offers students the opportunity to examine anthropological and sociological questions in an engagingly written and illustrated book that promotes hands-on interaction with a quintessential item of material culture—the baseball glove. At the same time, the book gives students the s..

This interactive, role-playing case book is an enormously rich and stimulating way of challenging students to think about the problems of development and how development experts go about trying to alleviate them. One of the most innovative and eloquent anthropologists of development, A. F. Robertson..

Offers a summary of the questions and the minefield of academic politics that surround questioning anthropology's most cherished paradigms. This title is suitable for students in human origins or biological anthropology courses...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This is the first modern biography of the Brothers Grimm, first published in 1970. It is a study of them in their background of late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Germany, and shows the position they held in their society as founders of Germanic philology, as members of the 'Göttingen Se..

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This book, by a leading scholar and writer on creative industries, reformulates our understanding of the practice of creativity in business, describing the collaboration of people, institutions, and technologies involved in creative work and the production of value...

Written by a diverse group of anthropologists, environmental researchers, environmentalists, and policy-makers, The Carbon Fix closely examines the current model for dealing with global warming—paying for carbon capture—and the negative effects this model has on rural communities, indigenous groups,..