Anthropology - Soc Sci

This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology...

This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company...

In an era of rapid change for Africa, this nomadic tribe clings to its traditional way of life. This book examines their society, and provides the first full published description of human life in the area...

Three of the Europe’s leading paleoanthropologists and physical scientists outline here—in student friendly language—the revolutionary changes in the science of studying of human origins and the amazing findings those tools have produced...

This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands...

This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands...

This is the first collection of Radcliffe-Brown's work chosen to represent his books as well as his essays. It includes some classic pieces, and also one or two lesser-known items...

The Social Anthropology of the Nation-State..

This book examines an orderly and relatively tranquil society, a small Israeli town settled by new immigrants, which is run by public agencies who pour in their resources to maintain the inhabitants...

This book examines an orderly and relatively tranquil society, a small Israeli town settled by new immigrants, which is run by public agencies who pour in their resources to maintain the inhabitants...

In a wide-ranging analysis covering popular culture, policy, and underlying social structures, this book shows how drug addicts are socially constructed as useless burdens on society and who benefits from that portrayal...