Anthropology

This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in the Bamako kafu, or state (located in contemporary Mali in West Africa), primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Brazil ranked second only to the United States in the number of reported cases of AIDS.

This innovative introduction to the anthropological study of religion challenges traditional categories and assumptions, arguing that too many of them reflect ethnocentric perspectives long discarded by contemporary anthropologists.

This book is about the choices black French citizens make when they move from Martinique and Guadeloupe to Paris and discover that they are not fully French.

This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in the Bamako kafu, or state (located in contemporary Mali in West Africa), primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature.

This book chronicles an ethnographic teams involvement over a span of fifteen years with the people of a poor, largely Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City.

Originally published in 1951 this book analyses the social values and institutions involved in the establishment and maintenance of marital relationships.

Originally published in 1951 this book analyses the social values and institutions involved in the establishment and maintenance of marital relationships.

Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society was studied in detail and its implications explored.

Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society was studied in detail and its implications explored.

Originally published in 1962, this study discusses the changes in the life of the Ovimbundu from the time of their caravan trade in slaves, rubber, and ivory down to the more recent period when the organization of their chiefdoms was influenced by the Catholic missions, Portuguese administration and wage labour.

Originally published in 1966, this book brings together papers dealing with the emergence and development of elites in sub-Saharan Africa among social categories ranging from farmers and women market traders through foremen and merchants to administrators and managers in government and industry.

Originally published in 1964, this book analyses the unique type of social stratification which is more akin to a social class system in Monrovia, Liberia's capital.

Originally published in 1958 this book presents a straight-forward and vivid picture of Adamawa Province in Nigeria.

Originally published in 1958 this book presents a straight-forward and vivid picture of Adamawa Province in Nigeria.

This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China.

This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China.

Originally published in 1960, this is a details study of the successive forms of government in the Hausa chiefdom of Zaria in Northern Nigeria.

Originally published in 1960, this is a details study of the successive forms of government in the Hausa chiefdom of Zaria in Northern Nigeria.

Originally published in 1964, this is a detailed ethnographic record and sympathetic study of Ambo beliefs and activities.

Originally published in 1964, this is a detailed ethnographic record and sympathetic study of Ambo beliefs and activities.

Originally published in 1964 this book made available for the first time David Tait's writings on the Konkomba with whom he lived and worked for 5 years.

Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers.

Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers.

Originally published in 1949, this is the first of 2 volumes studying the Bantu tribes inhabiting the westernmost part of Kenya.

Originally published in 1956, this second volume of the Bantu of North Kenya (Kavirondo) discusses the traditional Bantu economy, as well as 20th century developments as a result of Western contact.

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series brings together the most important psychoanalytic papers in the journal's eighty-year history in a series of accessible monographs.

El presente volumen reúne nuevas versiones de ocho ensayos de Dieter Ingenschay, publicados por primera vez entre 2011 y 2023 (algunos de ellos en alemán), en los que ofrece una visión personal en torno a las articulaciones del yo –autorial o ficcional– sexodisidente en las literaturas hispanoamericanas.

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series brings together the most important psychoanalytic papers in the journal's eighty-year history in a series of accessible monographs.

Originally published in 1959, this book includes detailed accounts of Nyakyusa traditions of origin, osmology and moral values, often in direct quotations from informants, while part of the book is devoted to a description of Christian missions, the growth of African churches and the conflict between pagan and Christian ethics and practices.

Originally published in 1957, analyses the rituals celebrated by groups of kinsmen on the occasion of births, marriages and deaths within the age villages of the Nyakyusa.

Originally published in 1965, this is a study of Christian secessionist sects in the southern Province of Nyasaland (Malawi).

In today's global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dominant forms.

In today's global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dominant forms.

Violins: Local Meanings, Globalized Sounds examines the violin as an object of meaning in a variety of cultural and historical contexts, and as a vehicle for introducing anthropological issues.

Violins: Local Meanings, Globalized Sounds examines the violin as an object of meaning in a variety of cultural and historical contexts, and as a vehicle for introducing anthropological issues.

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups.

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups.

Nationality and Ethnicity in an Israeli School: A Case Study of Jewish-Arab Students explores the intersection of ethnicity, nationality, and social structure which is experienced through schooling and its effects on the performance of disadvantaged students.

Nationality and Ethnicity in an Israeli School: A Case Study of Jewish-Arab Students explores the intersection of ethnicity, nationality, and social structure which is experienced through schooling and its effects on the performance of disadvantaged students.

First published in 1999.

First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school.

Published in 1938, this book contains the autobiographies of Ngidulu, Bugan Nak Manghe and Kumiha, three tribespeople from the Ifuagos province in the Phillippines.

First published in 1908, this volume emerged in the midst of the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone.

This book presents an ethnography of dispute processing by non-state forums and actors in rural India.

Published in 1999.

Published in 1999.

Focusing on issues relating to gender, gender relations, and discrimination, this book provides nuanced insight into the experiences of young Latina women and their teachers in a North American middle school.