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...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31999-7 (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...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32000-9 (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...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32009-2 (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...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32010-8 (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...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32011-5 (Routledge)

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A Moral Critique of Development

In Search of Global Responsibilities

Edited by Anta Kumar Giri, Philip Quarles van Ufford

Recent critiques of international development practice, affecting aid organizations such as Oxfam, Action Aid and the Red Cross, have attacked the motives of those heading...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27626-9 (Routledge)

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Participating in Development

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge

Edited by Alan Bicker, Johan Pottier, Paul Sillitoe

Development has too often failed to deliver on its promises to poor nations. The policies imposed from above by international agencies and state bodies...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25869-2 (Routledge)

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The Best of Anthropology Today

Edited by Jonathan Benthall

The articles in this influential journal placed it in the thick of a turbulent period for anthropology. Reacting to current research interests and launching what...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26256-9 (Routledge)

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Between Anthropology and Literature

Edited by Rose De Angelis

This collection suggests that the disciplines of literature and anthropology are not static entities but instead fluid sites of shifting cultural currents and academic interests....

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28714-2 (Routledge)

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Anthropology, by Comparison

Edited by Richard G. Fox, Andre Gingrich

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26054-1 (Routledge)

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