Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. Ho...

This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social a...

Mary Douglas was one of the most regarded anthropologists of the 20th Century. This is a collecti...

This is the first collection of Franz Steiner's keynote papers on comparative economics and the c...

Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newl...

Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newl...

This is the first collection of Franz Steiner's keynote papers on comparative economics and the c...

Tiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon ...

Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cam...

Written in the last two decades of her life, Cultures and Crises finds Mary Douglas developing an...

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of cent...

This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europ...