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Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures
Routledge 1996; US$ 42.95This collection of original essays explores the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range. Topics cove- red include anthropology, history, literature. more...
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis
Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 57.95In Anthropology and Psychoanalysis the contributors, both practising anthropologists and psychoanalysts, explore in detail the interface between the two disciplines and locate this within the history of both anthropology and psychoanalysis. In particular, they deal with the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology to psychoanalysis... more...
Purity and Danger
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 21.95In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from... more...
Understanding Rituals
Routledge 1992; US$ 44.95Within any society, rituals create, maintain and transform cultural identity and social relations. Daniel de Coppet presents six different contributions on how to understand ritual within the frame of contemporary social anthropology. more...
Material Cultures
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 65.95This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the Philippines and Northern Ireland. Material culture and consumption studies have undergone something of a renaissance recently. This study provides an up-to-date... more...
Reason and Morality
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95This clear, critical examination makes Hegels arguments fully accessible. Hegel 's system is considered as a whole and examines the wide range of problems that it was designed to solve. more...
World of Goods
Routledge 1996; US$ 52.95In this pioneering work, a leading anthropologist and an economist join forces to suggest that people use goods as a means of communicating with each other and illustrate how we can better understand the way this affects society. more...
Recasting Ritual
Routledge 1998; US$ 44.95Recasting Ritual, uses worldwide case studies to explore how ritualized action changes in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. more...
Locality and Belonging
Routledge 1998; US$ 47.95Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the relationship between identity and territory with case studies from Indonesia, Zanzibar, Argentina, South Africa and the UK. more...









