What is terror? What are its roots and its results -- and what part does it play in human experie...

Building on an incipient tendency to make comparisons between Indonesian and Melanesian cultural ...

A comparative analysis of notions of personhood and embodiment in African and Melanesian societies.

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses...

A comparative analysis of notions of personhood and embodiment in African and Melanesian societies.

Strathern's illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Gu...

For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in...

More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by government departments, companies ...

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of th...

This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive gen...

Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and ...

In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between 'langu...