After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthrop ...
Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject and this book inc ...
Discover true self-confidence. This book is a manual for the attainment of spiritual knowledge. It opens new perspectives on the essential tasks of li ...
Contributors to this volume take issue with the ‘idealist’ approach in which land and landscape – place and space – are read as purely expressive and ...
Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into ...
Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into ...
Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Gol ...
In a wide-ranging and original study of Claude Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic thought, Boris Wiseman demonstrates not only its centrality within his oeuvre ...
Skya rgya is a farming village in Amdo. While Tibetans largely welcome the material benefits that have been brought to them by the march of modernity, ...
This text traces the history of Tamil migration, from the economic migrants of the 1960s onwards. The author draws unnerving parallels between the sta ...
Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field that studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cul ...
In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of T ...
These case studies from five continents use ethnography and history to challenge the sweeping claims of sociology’s world culture theory (neo-institut ...
The law is a symbolic construction and therefore rests on a variety of undertakings. What gives law its meaning is, for some, ideology, and for others ...
Content: Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1. Electrochemical Methods for the Environmental -- Analysis of Trace Elements Biogeochemist ...
This book examines the usefulness of electrochemical methods for understanding complex natural biogeochemical processes. It describes techniques devel ...
Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships ...
The first ever book in Sindhi on Evolution.
La dottrina darwiniana dell’evoluzione è ciò che più si avvicina a un laico «principio di fede» del mondo moderno. Ora, l’evoluzione come fatto non è ...
