Throughout the northern circumpolar tundras and forests and over many millennia human populations have based their livelihood wholly or in part upon the exploitation of a single animal species the reindeer. Yet some are hunters others pastoralists while today tradit... Lees meer.

Interdisciplinary analysis of human growth in past populations. Studies of dental and skeletal growth and development have often been treated as independent disciplines within the literature. Human Growth in the Past first published in 1999 brings together these tw... Lees meer.

The Hadza an ethnic group indigenous to northern Tanzania are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer populations. Archaeology shows 130 000 years of hunting and gathering in their land but Hadza are rapidly losing areas vital to their way of life. This book offers a... Lees meer.

These essays by anthropologists and anthropological linguists draw on material from speech communities in three continents to raise fundamental questions about the ways in which interrogative and politeness forms are used in day-to-day social interaction. The authors... Lees meer.

This is a modern ethnography of the Murik a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea. This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River... Lees meer.

The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of new highly seasonal savannah habitats. However until recently our understanding of the possible impact of seasonality on this shift has been limited because we have little general knowledge of h... Lees meer.

The essays in this collection look at how the Japanese see themselves and others in a variety of contexts and challenge many Western assumptions about Japanese society. Through their own experiences and observations of Japanese life the authors explain how the Japane... Lees meer.

Questions of ethnicity religion cultural change and the African national identity are probed in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi Ghana. Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity religion cultural change and the African national identity in this... Lees meer.

All societies are differentiated by age. But in some this differentiation takes the form of institutionalized formally graded age classes the members of which share an assigned structural age if not necessarily the same physiological age. The nature of formal age... Lees meer.

The Vezo a fishing people of western Madagascar are known as the people who struggle with the sea . Dr Astuti explores their identity showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a way of doing rath... Lees meer.

Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminate nature of life. Questioning Misfortune is very much within this tradition. Based on a long-term study of adversity and its social causes in Bunyole eastern Uganda it... Lees meer.

The Khoisan are a cluster of southern African peoples including the famous Bushmen or San hunters the Khoekhoe herders in the past called Hottentots and the Damara also a herding people. Most Khoisan live in the Kalahari desert and surrounding areas of Botswana... Lees meer.

Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger women are sometimes possessed by spirits called the people of solitude . The evening curing rituals of the possessed featuring drumming and song take place before an audience of young men and women who jok... Lees meer.

Among the people of Avatip a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual cosmology an... Lees meer.

In the last twenty years immigration has become one of the most contested issues in Western Europe. The arrival of Africans Asians Eastern Europeans and others in Italy has reversed earlier trends of emigration. Debate political activity and violence have raised que... Lees meer.