Old Modes of Production and Capitalist Encroachment: Anthropological Explorations in Africa 1136139869, 9781136139864

Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases 9780226257242

Modes of Uncertainty offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and a

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Feminism and Materialism: Women and Modes of Production 041575223X, 9780415752237

These original essays are planned to provide a coherent basis for an understanding of women's social and historical

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Anthropological Explorations in Gender: Intersecting Fields 9780761994855, 0761994858, 9788170369622, 8170369622

"In Anthropological Explorations in Gender, Leela Dube addresses a range of interrelated themes in a study of gende

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Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa: Anthropological Perspectives 9781782382874

Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropol

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Economic and Political Reform in Africa: Anthropological Perspectives 0253010934, 9780253010933

What are the local effects of major economic and political reforms in Africa? How have globalized pro-market and pro-dem

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Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration: Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion 9781785337161

What does it mean to “fit in?” In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the di

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Funerals in Africa: Explorations of a Social Phenomenon 9780857452061

Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Wherea

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The Failure of Capitalist Production 9781849646208, 9780745332390, 9781849646192

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Health and Care in Old Age in Africa 9780367074388, 9780429020759

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Other Ways of Growing Old: Anthropological Perspectives 9780804766180

As anthropologists, we offer this book about aging in a wide variety of human societies in the hope of its making three

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