The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making eating and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will... Lees meer.

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Drawing on new anthropological approaches John Winkler considers the lives of men and women in Ancient Greece. For centuries classical scholars have intensely debated the position of women in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power or were the... Lees meer.

In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex gender and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human... Lees meer.

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion -- in this case Pentecostalism -- cannot be understood sim... Lees meer.

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender... Lees meer.

The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performanc... Lees meer.

The Lao discusses culture and village life in Laos exploring topics of kinship and family gender relations households religion livelihood strategies and ethnicity. In particular it highlights the effects of recent development projects on the relative power of men... Lees meer.

Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge brings feminist anthropology up to date highlighting the theoretical sophistication that characterizes recent research. Twelve essays by outstanding scholars written with the volume s concerns specifically in mind range across th... Lees meer.

What can the lived experiences of performing artists in Java Indonesia tell us about the production and negotiation of gender and local identity. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malang East Java author Christina Sunardi demonstrates ways individual... Lees meer.

This biography of the Polish British anthropologist Maria Czaplicka 1884 1921 is also a cultural study of the dynamics of the anthropological collective presented from a researcher-centric perspective. Czaplicka together with Bronis aw Malinowski studied anthropolo... Lees meer.

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Focusing on cultural change and the socio-political movements in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu this book uses both anthropological and historical analysis to examine the way the relationship between gender and Christianity has shaped processes of social change.... Lees meer.

This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family gender and kinship in Australia which informs modern kinship and gender at large. Allon Uhlmann charts the cultural basis that... Lees meer.

The Chambri of Papua New Guinea are well known as being the Tchambuli of Margaret Mead s influential work Sex and Temperament in which she described them as a people among whom in contrast to Western society women dominated over men. In this book however Frederi... Lees meer.