In this critical analysis of British kinship theory, Mary Bouquet challenges the claim that
kinship is of limited significance to the structure of English society. She reveals the …

A must-read guide to conducting qualitative field research in the social sciences Doing Field
Projects: Methods and Practice for Social and Anthropological Research delivers a thorough …

There is some disagreement among teaching anthropologists in Britain about whether
fieldwork for undergraduates should be encouraged. This paper discusses some of the …

This volume has come about through a very anthropological habit of comparison. The
meetings of the Teaching Anthropology Network of EASA initially dwelt on the seemingly …

Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional
history in multiple ways. It is a way to lay out the felt experience of events in people's …

Often enough, Anthropology seems as an'abstract'discipline, especially when students of
other social sciences or humanities try to get acquainted with its theory, methodology or the …

Short fieldtrips offer unique opportunities to teach cultural relativism in context. Through
travel, theatrical practices can be experienced as nodes in complex social webs, where the …

A frequently heard complaint from undergraduate anthropology students is that
anthropology–a fieldwork‐based discipline–is taught in universities almost exclusively as a …