Anthropology - Soc Sci

This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background...

This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background...

This collection of original articles investigates social science methodological traditions that can be ethically and epistemologically applied to the study of race and ethnicity...

Levy-Bruhl speculates about what he posited as the two basic mind-sets of mankind; "primitive" and "Western."..

‘Maori Symbolism’ is a story of a great race as told in their own Sacred Legends. And it is even more than this. It is an accurate record of the inner meaning of Life Symbolism on which the civilization of the Dark-Whites all over the world is founded. That symbolism stands for Cultivation – of the ..

Where and when did man make his first appearance on this earth? _x005F_x000D_ The object of this book is to bring before the public such further facts and values regarding the evolution of man...

The primitive mind does not differentiate the supernatural from reality, but rather uses "mystical participation" to manipulate the world. According to Bruhl, moreover, the primitive mind doesn't address contradictions...

Dr. Levy-Bruhl presents a dramatic picture of the primitives who live in a world that is capricious, unpredictable, and unstable; under the power of spirits both good and evil, to be worshipped or propitiated by ceremonies, dances, and religious rites...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens questions the political logic of foregrounding cultural collectives in a world shaped by globalization and neoliberalization. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society...

First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory, she instead uses the book to argue risk analysis from an anthropological perspective...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...