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.

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.

This account of an East African religion as it was during the 1950s discusses a variety of issues in the study of religion within the context of case materials and other field data. The Taita people of southern Kenya called their religion Butasi after its central act w... 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.

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.

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.

Among the Berti of Northern Darfur Sudan as among many Muslim societies the formal religious practices are predominantly the concern of men while local unorthodox customary rituals are performed mainly by women. It is usual to dismiss such local popular practices... 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.

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.