Anthropology - Soc Sci

This book covers the life of a small Mestizo community in Columbia, with its people and institutions, its traditions in the past and its outlook on the future...

An integrated approach to understanding how people live, learn, work in and perceive their environments...

An integrated approach to understanding how people live, learn, work in and perceive their environments...

In this original and controversial 2005 book, Mahmood argues that Muslim women can show independence even while assuming traditional Islamic roles...

An exploration of how people who are concerned about globalization and consumption learn about these issues through their shopping and use that knowledge to change the status quo...

An exploration of how people who are concerned about globalization and consumption learn about these issues through their shopping and use that knowledge to change the status quo...

This book offers an accessible and up-to-date reference on primate zoonoses. Recent years have witnessed a rise in human diseases zoonotically transferred from animals, with wild primates implicated in the spread of numerous newly emerging infections. The authors go beyond simply providing an invent..

The Racing Game..

An exploration of the developments in rural life, this book takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture...

There has been much discussion in recent years about the construction of theoretical models useful in the explanation of particular areas of social organization. This volume charts that discussion and its results...

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Van Gennep was the first observer of human behaviour to note that the ritual ceremonies that accompany the landmarks of human life differ only in detail from one culture to another, and that they are in essence universal...