The volume presents the diary of one of the great anthropologists at a crucial time in his career. Malinowski's major works grew out of his findings on field trips to New Guinea and North Melanesia from 1914-1918...
The volume presents the diary of one of the great anthropologists at a crucial time in his career. Malinowski's major works grew out of his findings on field trips to New Guinea and North Melanesia from 1914-1918...
This pioneering guide introduces a new trend in ethnographic research and looks at how imagework techniques explore imaginative resources to reveal unconscious knowledge about identity, belief and society...
Zachary Kingdon here provides an in-depth account of the background, origin and development of the spirit figure sculptures which emerged during colonial times among the Makonde people of Mozambique...
Recent critiques of international development practice, affecting some of the West's best known aid organisations, have attacked the motives of those heading the 'machine' of development. This book draws lessons from actual projects to propose a..
Recent critiques of international development practice, affecting some of the West's best known aid organisations, have attacked the motives of those heading the 'machine' of development. This book draws lessons from actual projects to propose a..
For the first time in one easily accessible form, Practically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Engineering, Technology and Architecture brings together over 1,100 quotes pertinent and especially illuminating to these disciplines. Here you will find profound, witty, and wise quotations from th..
In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, which they nicknamed the "Hobbit." This was no creation of T..