Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain 9780520390348, 2022027199, 2022027200, 9780520390324, 9780520390331, 0520390342

Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain 0520390326, 9780520390324

Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empi

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Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain 9780520390348

Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empi

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Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in Neoliberal Kenya 9780226764597

These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African so

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The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society 9781785336928

As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse

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The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. 600-800 0582772923, 9780582772922

The Britain of 600-800 AD was populated by four distinct peoples; the British, Picts, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. They spoke

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Beyond Anthropology: Society and the Other 9780231878968

An inquiry into the history of the different conceptions of difference in the West from the sixteenth to early twentieth

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Mass Observers Making Meaning: Religion, Spirituality and Atheism in Late 20th-Century Britain 9781350274495, 9781350274525, 9781350274501

What do people believe about death and the afterlife? How do they negotiate the relationship between science and religio

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Colonial Development and Population in Taiwan 9781400877010

An unusual view of an agrarian region in the process of development by a colonial power. Taiwan (or Formosa), when it re

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Britain and Germany in Africa Imperial rivalry and colonial rule

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Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa 9781788315203, 9781350134560, 9781786736192

Conceived as both a vehicle to national prestige and as a civilizing mission, the second French colonial empire (1830–19

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