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Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane

2nd Edition

By Phyllis Kaberry

First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31999-7 (Routledge)

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Women of the Grassfields

A Study of the Economic Position of Women in Barmenda, British Cameroons, 2nd Edition

By Phyllis Kaberry

This classic ethnography examines the social and economic position of women in Bamena, British Cameroons, in 1944. The field study was prompted by the conditions…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32000-9 (Routledge)

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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa

A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns, 2nd Edition

By Abner Cohen

Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 1960s among the Hausa migrants, a people of the Yoruba area (then the western region of the Federation of…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32009-2 (Routledge)

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Stone Age Economics

2nd Edition

By Marshall Sahlins, Marshall Sahlins

Stone Age Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32010-8 (Routledge)

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The Maasai of Matapato

A Study of Rituals of Rebellion, 2nd Edition

By Paul Spencer, Paul Spencer

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31723-8 (Routledge)

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The Samburu

A Study in Geocentracy, 2nd Edition

By Paul Spencer

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31725-2 (Routledge)

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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu, 2nd Edition

By Audrey Richards

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32011-5 (Routledge)

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Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film

By E.D Lewis

Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32774-9 (Routledge)

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Gender in Transnationalism

Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women

By Ruba Salih

A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, Gender in Transnationalism highlights women's construction of 'home' between Morocco and Italy as a…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26703-8 (Routledge)

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Globalizing Japan

Ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America

By Harumi Befu, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis

Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28566-7 (Routledge)

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