Shamans and Elders

Caroline Humphrey

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• This work is a ground breaking study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. Lavishly illustrated and containing a wealth of new informa... Lees meer

History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia

Sigrid Rausing

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Located in the world of a former collective farm in Estonia, Sigrid Rausing's book describes the changing identity of the Swedish speaking minority in... Lees meer

Riches and Renunciation

James Laidlaw

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• The Jains of India are a flourishing and prosperous community, but their religion is focused on the teaching and example of ascetic renouncers, whose ... Lees meer

A Failure of Treatment

Gilbert Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• This book is a study of a serious illness in a New Guinea village. It records the failure of local treatments and Western medicine, and of a communal ... Lees meer

The Pastoral Continuum

Paul Spencer

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Spencer presents the definitive study of the ways of life of the cattle-herding peoples of East Africa, drawing on many years of research. This region... Lees meer

Personal States

Catherine Alexander

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Charting how Turkish people - both within and outside the state bureaucracy - attempt to personalise the impersonality of the state, this elegant, nua... Lees meer

Arabesk Debate

Martin Stokes

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• This social anthropological account of music in Turkey is based on an ethnographic study of popular musicians in Istanbul. Stokes discusses the state ... Lees meer

Exchange in Oceania

Per Hage, Frank Harary

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• In their previous book, Structural Models in Anthropology , Hage and Haray used graph theory, a branch of pure mathematics, to develop a family of mod... Lees meer

Inside the Cult

Harvey (University Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University L

• Paperback | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• The millenarian cult of Pomio Kivung in Papua New Guinea looks forward to the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return ... Lees meer

Born and Bred

Jeanette Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Born and Bred is an ethnography of Bacup in the north-west of England. At the heart of the cotton industry in the nineteenth century, this Lancashire ... Lees meer

Changing Inner Mongolia

David Sneath

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about that region, the vast steppeland of northern China. Th... Lees meer

The Archetypal Actions of Ritual

Caroline Humphrey, James Laidlaw

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Humphrey and Laidlaw present a new and radical general theory of ritual by drawing on an ethnographically rich account of the ritual worship of the Ja... Lees meer

Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• The anthropology of art is a fast-developing area of intellectual debate and academic study. This beautifully illustrated volume is a unique survey of... Lees meer

Anthropology and History in Franche-Comté

Robert Layton

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Layton's study of continuity and change in rural France and his comparisons with other European regions, make possible a reinterpretation of the eight... Lees meer

Irish America

Reginald Byron

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Few writers have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generati... Lees meer

Living on Mangetti

Thomas Widlok

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• This book is an anthropological case study of the little-known "Bushman" of Northern Namibia. They are still a gathering people, not only living on ma... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Landscape

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her s... Lees meer

Age, Marriage, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Ragusa

David Rheubottom

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• This book combines the insights of history and anthropology with innovative techniques such as computer simulation to investigate the relationships be... Lees meer

Contested Hierarchies

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• In this book, six anthropologists pool their knowledge of the three ancient Newar cities of Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Bhaktapur, and of other settlemen... Lees meer

Of Mixed Blood

Peter Gow

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• This book is an ethnography of the native people of the Bajo Urubamba river in Peruvian Amazonia. Gow attempts to account for the fact that the people... Lees meer

A Market Out of Place?

Pernille Hohnen

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• This book focuses on the seamy side of market economy in Lithuania and shows how a "market" only becomes established by people, sacrifices, and contes... Lees meer

Dancing Through Time

Borut Telban

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Dancing Through Time presents a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East ... Lees meer

Organizing Jainism in India and England

Marcus (Lecturer, Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Ant

• Hardcover | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Although the Jains have a religious history spanning two-and-a-half millennia Western scholars have shown little interest in them until recently. Draw... Lees meer

A Place Apart

Kirsten (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, U

• Hardcover | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• This is an anthropological study of the Icelandic world. It explores the features of Icelandic society, culture, tradition and ideology in the 20th ce... Lees meer