Book Search

1. Mary Douglas

   An Intellectual Biography

   By Richard Fardon

   This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century.Richard Fardon covers Douglas' family background, and the pervasive influence of her catholic faith on her writings before...

   Published April 14th 1999 by Routledge
2. Counterworks

   Managing the Diversity of Knowledge

   Edited by Richard Fardon

   Series: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge

   Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks, ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research....

   Published September 13th 1995 by Routledge
3. African Languages, Development and the State

   Edited by Richard Fardon, Graham Furniss

   This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development...

   Published November 24th 1993 by Routledge