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Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series
112 primary works • 112 total works
Book 1
The Political Organization of Unyamwezi (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 1)
R.G. Abrahams
3.4 avg. rating · 5 Ratings
Book 2
Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 2)
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
4.71 avg. rating · 7 Ratings
Book 3
Kalahari Village Politics: An African Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 3)
Adam Kuper
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 4
The Rope of Moka: Big-men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Andrew J. Strathern
3.43 avg. rating · 7 Ratings
Book 5
The Majangir: Ecology and Society of a Southwest Ethiopian People (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 5)
Jack Stauder
4 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 6
Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 6)
Jane Bunnag
4 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 7
Contexts of Kinship: An Essay in the Family Sociology of the Gonja of Northern Ghana (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 7)
Esther N. Goody
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 8
Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 8)
Christine Oppong
3 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 9
Elite Politics in Rural India: Political Stratification and Political Alliances in Western Maharashtra (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 9)
Anthony T. Carter
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 10
Women and Property in Morocco: Their Changing Relation to the Process of Social Stratification in the Middle Atlas (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 10)
Vanessa Maher
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 11
Rethinking Symbolism
Dan Sperber
3.73 avg. rating · 33 Ratings
Book 12
Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 12)
Alan Macfarlane
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 13
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 14
Spirits of Protest: Spirit-Mediums and the Articulation of Consensus among the Zezuru of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 14)
Peter Fry
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 15
World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 15)
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
3.88 avg. rating · 8 Ratings
Book 16
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Pierre Bourdieu
4.06 avg. rating · 1672 Ratings
Book 17
Production and Reproduction: A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 17)
Jack Goody
4.17 avg. rating · 6 Ratings
Book 18
Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology
Maurice Godelier
3.71 avg. rating · 21 Ratings
Book 19
The Fate of Shechem or the Politics of Sex: Essays in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 19)
Julian Pitt-Rivers
5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 20
People of the Zongo: The Transformation of Ethnic Identities in Ghana (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 20)
Enid Schildkrout
4 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 21
Casting out Anger: Religion among the Taita of Kenya (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 21)
Grace Gredys Harris
3.33 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 22
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 23
Australian Kin Classification (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 23)
Harold W. Scheffler
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 24
The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology)
Stephen Hugh-Jones
3.8 avg. rating · 5 Ratings
Book 25
Nomads of South Siberia: The Pastoral Economies of Tuva
Sevyan Vainshtein
3.67 avg. rating · 6 Ratings
Book 26
From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology)
Christine Hugh-Jones
4.25 avg. rating · 4 Ratings
Book 27
Day of Shining Red (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 27)
Gilbert N. Lewis
3.5 avg. rating · 4 Ratings
Book 28
Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers: Reindeer Economies and their Transformations (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 28)
Tim Ingold
3.6 avg. rating · 5 Ratings
Book 29
Wood-Carvers of Hong Kong: Craft Production in the World Capitalist Periphery
Eugene Cooper
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 30
Minangkabau Social Formations: Indonesian Peasants and the World-Economy (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 30)
Joel S. Kahn
4 avg. rating · 4 Ratings
Book 31
Patrons and Partisans: A Study of Politics in Two Southern Italian Comuni (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 31)
Caroline White
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 32
Muslim Society
Ernest Gellner
3.79 avg. rating · 39 Ratings
Book 33
Why Marry Her?: Society and Symbolic Structures (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 33)
Luc De Heusch
4.5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 34
Chinese Ritual and Politics (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 34)
Emily Martin Ahern
3.25 avg. rating · 4 Ratings
Book 35
Parenthood and Social Reproduction: Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 35)
Esther N. Goody
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 36
Dravidian Kinship
Thomas R. Trautmann
3 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 37
The Anthropological Circle: Symbol, Function, History (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 37)
Marc Augé
3.71 avg. rating · 7 Ratings
Book 38
Rural Society in Southeast India (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 38)
Kathleen Gough
3 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 39
The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 39)
Jean E. Jackson
4 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 40
Karl Marx Collective: Economy, Society and Religion in a Siberian Collective Farm (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 40)
Caroline Humphrey
4 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 41
Ecology and Exchange in the Andes (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 41)
David Lehmann
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 42
Traders Without Trade: Responses to Change in Two Dyula Communities (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 42)
Robert Launay
4 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 43
The Political Economy of West African Agriculture (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 36)
Keith Hart
3.6 avg. rating · 5 Ratings
Book 44
Nomads and the Outside World
Anatoly M. Khazanov
4.06 avg. rating · 16 Ratings
Book 45
Actions, Norms and Representations: Foundations of Anthropological Enquiry (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 45)
Ladislav Holy
3.5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 46
Structural Models in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 46)
Per Hage
4.67 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 47
Servants of the Goddess: The Priests of a South Indian Temple
C.J. Fuller
5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 48
Oedipus and Job in West African Religion
Meyer Fortes
4.33 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 49
The Buddhist Saints of the Forest (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 49)
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
4 avg. rating · 9 Ratings
Book 50
Kinship and Marriage: An Anthropological Perspective
Robin Fox
3.52 avg. rating · 64 Ratings
Book 51
Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 51)
Peter Riviere
4 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 52
People and the State (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 52)
A.F. Robertson
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 53
Inequality Among Brothers: Class and Kinship in South China (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 53)
Rubie S. Watson
4 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 54
On Anthropological Knowledge: Three Essays
Dan Sperber
3.71 avg. rating · 14 Ratings
Book 55
Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest
Jacques Lizot
3.47 avg. rating · 34 Ratings
Book 56
The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya
Maurice Godelier
3.81 avg. rating · 47 Ratings
Book 57
Age Class Systems: Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 57)
Bernardo Bernardi
5 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 58
Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society: Descent, Succession and Inheritance among the Toka of Zambia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 58)
Ladislav Holy
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 59
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 59)
Frank Salomon
4 avg. rating · 6 Ratings
Book 60
Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Illustration (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 60)
Gerald M. Sider
4.33 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 61
From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina
Maurice Bloch
3.64 avg. rating · 11 Ratings
Book 62
The Huli Response to Illness (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 62)
Stephen Frankel
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 63
Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet: Land, Late Marriage, and Bastardy, 1870–1978 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 63)
Brian Juan O'Neill
4.5 avg. rating · 6 Ratings
Book 64
Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 64)
Fredrik Barth
3.82 avg. rating · 11 Ratings
Book 65
Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 65)
Raymond T. Smith
3 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 66
The Making of the Basque Nation (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 66)
Marianne Heiberg
3.67 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 67
Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
Nicholas Thomas
4 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 68
Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 68)
Pascal Boyer
3.33 avg. rating · 6 Ratings
Book 69
The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 69)
Ron Brunton
2.67 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 70
The Anthropology of Numbers (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 70)
Thomas Crump
3.14 avg. rating · 7 Ratings
Book 71
Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 71)
Simon J. Harrison
5 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 72
The Bedouin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 72)
Emrys L. Peters
3.8 avg. rating · 5 Ratings
Book 73
Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 74)
Nancy Tapper
4.5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 74
Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 73)
David Warren Sabean
3.14 avg. rating · 7 Ratings
Book 75
Fifteen Generations of Bretons: Kinship and Society in Lower Brittany, 1720–1980 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 75)
Martine Segalen
4 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 76
Honor and Grace in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 76)
J.G. Peristiany
4 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 77
The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 77)
Paul Sant Cassia
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 78
Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society: The Berti of Sudan (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 78)
Ladislav Holy
4 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 79
Quiet Days in Burgundy: A Study of Local Politics (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 79)
Marc Abélès
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 80
The Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 80)
David J. Parkin
4.5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 81
A Place of their Own: Family Farming in Eastern Finland (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 81)
Ray Abrahams
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 82
Power, Prayer and Production: The Jola of Casamance, Senegal (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 82)
Olga F. Linares
0 avg. rating · 0 Ratings
Book 83
Identity through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 83)
Geoffrey M. White
4 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 84
Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual
David N. Gellner
4 avg. rating · 8 Ratings
Book 85
Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 85)
Alan Barnard
2.67 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 86
Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 86)
John Borneman
3.67 avg. rating · 6 Ratings
Book 87
Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting: Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 87)
R.L. Stirrat
4.5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 88
Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality among the Sora of Eastern India
Piers Vitebsky
4 avg. rating · 7 Ratings
Book 89
South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 89)
Bruce M. Knauft
3.5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 90
Pathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 90)
Roland Littlewood
4.33 avg. rating · 3 Ratings
Book 91
The Cultural Relations of Classification: An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 91)
Roy F. Ellen
4 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 92
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 92)
Sara Dickey
4.5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 93
In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia
Philippe Descola
3.91 avg. rating · 22 Ratings
Book 94
Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 94)
Susan J. Rasmussen
3 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 95
People of the Sea: Identity and Descent among the Vezo of Madagascar (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 95)
Rita Astuti
4.13 avg. rating · 15 Ratings
Book 96
Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia: Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange, and Custom in the Tanga Islands (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 96)
Robert J. Foster
4 avg. rating · 1 Ratings
Book 97
The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 97)
Charles Stafford
4.5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 98
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 98)
Deborah Reed-Danahay
3.5 avg. rating · 2 Ratings
Book 99
The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937–1962 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 99)
Joëlle Bahloul
3.71 avg. rating · 17 Ratings
Book 100
Contesting Culture: Discourses of Identity in Multi-Ethnic London
Gerd Baumann
3.59 avg. rating · 22 Ratings