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.

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.

This original study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts travellers accounts memoirs and popular literature the author shows how the distinctive forms of marriage kinship and property transmission... Lees meer.

The lives of kings poets authors criminals and celebrities are a perpetual fascination in the media and popular culture and for decades anthropologists and other scientists have participated in post-mortem dissections of the lives of historical figures. In this fi... Lees meer.

Following the publication of the book by E. R. Leach ed. Aspects of Caste in South India Ceylon and North-West Pakistan 1960 much additional information was gathered on caste hierarchies in South Asia and two major attempts were made to identify the underlying uni... 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 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.

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.