Anthropology - Soc Sci

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Political Anthropology..

Modern political anthropology began in 1940 with the first systematic comparative studies of how primitive societies maintained law and order. The focus was on government and the presence or absence of state institutions...

This first full-length study on the history of Iranian anthropology, this book charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century within the context of Iranian society and politics...

Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society..

Meticulously documents cultural values and beliefs, dietary practaices, and the nutritional and health status of mothers in Indian squatter settlements...

Provides results of a landmark qualitative study of how lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts and manage institutional homophobia and heterosexism...

This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which humans and human societies aspire to confront and deal with death, or even seek to outlive it, as it were...

The first resource to focus specifically on oral history practices with immigrant narrators, this book provides the tools to effectively plan and execute an oral history project in an immigrant community and includes case studies, additional resources, and templates of important oral history process..

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Nicola Bulled’s in-depth ethnographic account of how HIV prevention messages are selected, transmitted, and reacted to by young adults in the AIDS-torn population of Lesotho provides a crucial example of the importance of a culture-centered approach to health communication...

This comprehensive introduction demonstrates the theoretical perspectives and concepts that are applied to primate behavior, and explores the relevance of non-human primates to understanding human behavior. Using a streamlined and student-friendly taxonomic framework, King provides a thorough overvi..