This comprehensive survey of contemporary thought in biological, social and cultural
anthropology sets the foundation for their future development and integration. The principal …

BACKGROUND" If the broad problem in political anthropology is to understand the origin
and variety of inequality, that in legal anthropology is to understand the mainte-nance of …

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human
beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural …

Landscape and temporality are the major unifying themes of archaeology and social‐
cultural anthropology. This paper attempts to show how the temporality of the landscape …

In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every
day. But in Nigeria's" cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back …

The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists,
librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe …

Women in the Third World provides an up-to-date general account and review of research
on the roles and status of women in contemporary Third World societies. The book focuses …

Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, Ann Brower Stahl reconstructs the daily lives
of Banda villagers of west central Ghana, from the time that they were drawn into the Niger …

Shea butter (butyrospermin parkii) has been produced and sold by rural West African
women and circulated on the world market as a raw material for more than a century. Shea …

Peasants are an ambiguous social category. They are difficult to define and their political
behavior defies most generalizations. Nevertheless, social scientists, many working outside …