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.

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.

In the Mount Hagen area of central New Guinea warfare has been replaced since the arrival of the Europeans by a vigorous development of moka a competitive ceremonial exchange of wealth objects. The exchanges of pigs shells and other valuables are interpreted as actin... Lees meer.

Plasticity refers to the ability of many organisms to change their biology or behaviour to respond to changes in the environment particularly when these are stressful. Humans are perhaps the most plastic of all species and hence the most variable. This book reflects... Lees meer.

Every year there are over 1.6 million violent deaths worldwide making violence one of the leading public health issues of our time. And with the 20th century just behind us it s hard to forget that 191 million people lost their lives directly or indirectly through co... 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.

Human behavioral ecology HBE applies the principles of evolutionary theory and optimisation to the study of human behavioural and cultural diversity. Among other things HBE attempts to explain variation in behaviour as adaptive solutions to the competing life-history... Lees meer.

The dwarf and mouse lemurs of Madagascar are two very species-rich lemur genera yet there is a relative paucity of information on this primate family in published literature. In this first ever treatment of the Cheirogaleidae international experts are brought together... 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.