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.

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.

This edited collection attempts to revive a unified anthropological approach to the study of sex and gender hierarchies. Seventeen distinguished contributors - from cultural anthropology physical anthropology archaeology and anthropological linguistics - have produce... 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.

For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compel... Lees meer.

When Ladislav Holy precipitately left Czechoslovakia for the UK in 1968 he was already one of the leading anthropologists in Central Europe. In the following decades he made important field studies in Africa. Since 1986 he has been engaged in research in the Czech Repub... Lees meer.

This is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. Nancy Tapper presents both male and female perspectives and includes detailed case studies and historical and statistical material. Bartered Brides is a detailed study of m... Lees meer.

This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanj v r district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the author in 1951 3. Differing from the usual village study Gough s work traces the history of the villages over the past... Lees meer.

Now reissued in paperback with a new preface. The Highlands societies of Papua New Guinea which have been studied intensively by numerous anthropologists since the 1950s have been widely described as egalitarian and as characterised by achieved leadership. The Melanes... Lees meer.