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Vanessa Manceron
Examining social constructions and perceptions of nature.
In Wild and Wonderful, social anthropologist Vanessa Manceron investigates an understudied but indispensable scientific practice: getting to know and recognize the living worlds…
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Stephen Hugh-Jones
First published in 1967, The Giants of Asia discusses the growth of Asian nationalism and Asian power. It surveys the major Asian countries and the three major forms that Asian…
The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men’s cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones builds up a general picture of…
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This novel treatment of barter represents an original and topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology. It aims to show that barter is not just and inefficient means of…
Inspired by the seminal work of Levi-Strauss on the house as a social institution, the contributors to this volume analyse ‘house’ systems in Southeast Asia and South America, exploring the…
Irving Goldman
The societies of Vaupes region are among the most documented indigenous cultures, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict, and students and…
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