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Evolution, Order and Complexityby Elias Kahlil; Kenneth Boulding
Routledge 1996; US$ 200.00This volume of essays explores the relationship between the natural and social worlds using general system theory. more...
Exploring Bordersby Michael Cole; Giuseppe Mantovani
Routledge 2000; US$ 27.50Highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. The emphasis is placed on the differences across and between cultures and the depths to which these can go. more...
Comparative Youth Cultureby Mike Brake
Routledge 1985; US$ 55.95Mike Brake suggests that subcultures develop in response to social problems which a group experiences collectively, and shows how individuals draw on collective identities to define themselves. more...
Anthropological Critique of Developmentby Mark Hobart
Routledge 1993; US$ 49.95Challenges the utopian view of Western knowledge as uniquely successful in its application to economic and social development. The contributors offer an enthographic critique using case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. more...
Telling Sexual Storiesby Ken Plummer
Routledge 1994; US$ 53.95This book explores the rites of a sexual story-telling culture and examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions that have given rise to them. more...
Critically Modernby Bruce M. Knauft
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 17.55"Critically Modern makes a critical intervention in one of the great debates of the moment. It offers a variety of rich and fascinating empirical analyses of 'modern' phenomena from diverse societies, and contributes a powerful (and largely missing) voice to the growing literature on globalization and modernity outside anthropology." -- Charles Piot "In these essays theory and ethnography are presented in ways that make them mutually enriching. The volume should appeal to scholars across the entire range of disciplines that deal with modernity and/or globalization." -- Edward LiPuma Are there multiple ways of... more...
Taking Humour Seriouslyby Jerry Palmer
Routledge 1993; US$ 33.95An examination of the role humour plays in many different types of society. Palmer surveys the different approaches to its study - from Freud to anthropology, from literary criticism to biology. more...
Gender, Agency and Changeby Victoria Goddard
Routledge 2000; US$ 49.95People create new opportunities and conditions in response to change, and these responses are influenced by gender and age. This collection examines responses to development and social and political change through this prism of gender. more...
Nonzeroby Robert Wright
Knopf Publishing Group 2001; US$ 12.99In his bestselling The Moral Animal , Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next. In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny , Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from stone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering such surprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the useful stability of... more...
Lesser Gods of the Saharaby Jeremy Keenan
Frank Cass 2004; US$ 52.95A thoroughly studied series of eight essays that capture the key changes that have occurred amongst Algeria's Tuareg - the nomadic, blue-veiled warlords of the Central Sahara - in the 40 years since the country's independence in 1962. more...