Anthropology - Soc Sci

Crucial to the world history of folkloristics is this key study, first published in 1992, of the development of folklore study in the Soviet Union. Nowhere else has political ideology been so heavily involved with folklore scholarship. Professor Howell has examined in depth the institutional develop..

The Development of Soviet Folkloristics Pbdirect..

The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals..

First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The Dugum Dani..

Marshalling new scientific evidence on the musculoskeletal system, this book provides an accessible guide to training that balances athletic performance and bone health over the life span, with information essential for exercise physiologists, endurance athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and coaches...

Combining theoretical papers and case studies from leading scholars, this book demonstrates how the topic of ethics goes to the heart of anthropology and raises the debatable question of why, and for whom, the anthropological discipline functions...

One of the major works of twentieth-century anthropological theory, written by one of the discipline’s most important, complex, and controversial figures...

Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book emphasize the developmental or time dimension of the family, analysing it as a process...

This volume investigates ideas, beliefs and sentiments in relation to social organization...

This volume investigates ideas, beliefs and sentiments in relation to social organization...

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru...