Servants of the Goddess

C J Fuller

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 47
• The Minaksi Temple is one of the largest, most celebrated and most popular Hindu temples in India. Situated in the ancient south Indian city of Madura... Lees meer

Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia

Robert John Foster

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 96
• This study describes and interprets the ritual activity that follows upon death in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea. Robert J. Foster shows how the... Lees meer

Education and Identity in Rural France

Deborah Reed-Danahay

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 98
• Drawing on an ethnographic study of a remote community in the Auvergne, Dr. Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the operation of the Fren... Lees meer

The New Racism in Europe

Jeffrey Cole

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 107
• Immigration is among the most contested issues in Western Europe. Studies commonly focus on political activity and the plight of minorities, but this ... Lees meer

The Huli Response to Illness

Stephen Frankel

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 62
• Dr Frankel's study of the rapid transformation of traditional medical care among the Huli of New Guinea by Western treatments strikingly combines the ... Lees meer

Actions, Norms and Representations

Ladislav Holy, Milan Stuchlik

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 45
• The verbal statements of the actors and the researchers' own observations of their behaviour constitute two basic kinds of data which every anthropolo... Lees meer

Quiet Days in Burgundy

Marc Abélès

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 79
• This ethnographic study of political life in the department of Yonne, in the Burgundy region, explores a still richly Balzacian provincial world. The ... Lees meer

Mangrove Man

David Lipset

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 106
• The Murik of Papua New Guinea conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. Men have political power, but their claim to sustain ... Lees meer

Day of Shining Red

Gilbert Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 27
• Anthropologists, in studying other cultures, are often tempted to offer their own explanations of strange customs when they feel that the people invol... Lees meer

The Roads of Chinese Childhood

Charles Stafford

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 97
• Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification th... Lees meer

The Architecture of Memory

Joelle Bahloul

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 99
• Recalling how they lived in a single house that was occupied by several Jewish and Muslim families, in the generation before Algerian independence, Jo... Lees meer

People of the Zongo

Enid Schildkrout

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 20
• Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of ... Lees meer

Honor and Grace in Anthropology

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 76
• Little has been written about honour in the social sciences and almost nothing about grace. Yet honour has caused more deaths than the plague and grac... Lees meer

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

Roy a Rappaport

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 110
• This book argues that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches, it is a comprehensive analysis of... Lees meer

A Place of Their Own

Ray Abrahams

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 81
• Based on field research in eastern Finland not far from the Russian border, this book is an account of the main features of rural society in the area.... Lees meer

The Sacred Void

David Parkin

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 80
• In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, ne... Lees meer

In the Society of Nature

Philippe Descola

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 93
• The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the env... Lees meer

The Roads of Chinese Childhood

Charles Stafford

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 97
• Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification th... Lees meer

Identity Through History

Geoffrey M White

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 83
• For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of col... Lees meer

Belonging in the Two Berlins

John Borneman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 86
• Belonging in the two Berlins is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War. Taking the practices of everyda... Lees meer

Ecology and Exchange in the Andes

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 41
• For centuries Andean civilization and ecology has afforded a special fascination for European travellers and officials. In this volume, eight writers ... Lees meer

The Cultural Relations of Classification

Roy Ellen

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 91
• Roy Ellen has studied the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than twenty years. He is a major figure in ethnobiology, the branch of anthropol... Lees meer

Kinship and Class in the West Indies

Raymond T Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 65
• Is a family system that permits freedom to enter, dissolve, and re-enter sexual unions, that tolerates high illegitimacy rates, and allows a large pro... Lees meer

The Trading Crowd

Ellen Hertz

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology | nr. 108
• In 1992, an explosion of "stock fever" hit Shanghai. Ellen Hertz's anthropological study sets the stock market and its players in the context of Shang... Lees meer