Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane

By Phyllis Kaberry

First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Women of the Grassfields

A Study of the Economic Position of Women in Barmenda, British Cameroons

By Phyllis Kaberry

This classic ethnography examines the social and economic position of women in Bamena, British Cameroons, in 1944. The field study was prompted by the conditions...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa

A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns

By Abner Cohen

Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 1960s among the Hausa migrants, a people of the Yoruba area (then the western region of the Federation of...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Stone Age Economics

By Marshall Sahlins

Stone Age Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu

By Audrey Richards

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the...

Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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For the Love of Women

Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

By Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members...

Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Maasai of Matapato

A Study of Rituals of Rebellion

By Paul Spencer

When first published in 1988, this classic study was the first to relate the dynamics of the Maasai age organisation to tensions within the family....

Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Samburu

A Study in Geocentracy

By Paul Spencer

Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film

By E.D Lewis

Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He...

Published October 30th 2003 by Routledge.

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Time, Space and the Unknown

Maasai Configurations of Power and Providence

By Paul Spencer

Uncertainty is an everyday aspect of existence for the Maasai of East Africa. They take ritual precautions against mystical misfortune in their small and dispersed...

Published October 9th 2003 by Routledge.

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