Anthropology and History in Franche-Comte

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

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

Dualism and Hierarchy

Gregory Forth

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Society in the Keo region of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores reveals a pervasive pairing of villages, clans, and other groups. This work studi... 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

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

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

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

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

The Heat of the Hearth

Janet Carsten

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Janet Carsten offers an original and very personal investigation of the nature of kinship in Malaysia, based upon her own experience as a foster daugh... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Migrants, Local Lives

Katy Gardner

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Katy Gardner looks at the 'sendi... Lees meer

Inside the Cult

Harvey (University Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University L

• Hardcover | 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

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

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

Waiting for Wolves in Japan

John Knight

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• A Japanese conservationist group has launched a campaign for the reintroduction of the wolf in Japan, arguing that the wolf would be the savior of upl... Lees meer

Sea Hunters of Indonesia

R H Barnes

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Sea Hunters of Indonesia is a comprehensive study of the coastal community of Lamalera, whose traditional ways of life make it unique. One is an unusu... Lees meer

Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia

David G Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• This is a first-hand account of a reindeer-herding collective in the remote Taimyr peninsula of Siberia. The author gives an intimate description of t... 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