One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthrop...

Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestig...

The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernization, as reflected in the changing nature of we...

Recalling the way they lived in a single Algerian house that was occupied by several families, Je...

The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the ...

This is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and t...

Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spi...

The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of customs which go beyond those ...

Little has been written about honour in the social sciences and almost nothing about grace. Yet h...

One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthrop...

Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on th...

Dr Frankel's study of the rapid transformation of traditional medical care among the Huli of New ...