Search Results

ENGLISH

Bridewealth And Dowry

by Jack (University Of Cambridge) Goody e S. J. Tambiah

29,74€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 In these insightful papers, first published in 1973, two leading authorities make a wide-ranging review of ideas and materials on bridewealth and dowry. The authors analyse the two institutions in the contexts of Africa, with its preponderance of bridewealth, and South Asia, where dowry is the commoner institution.
ENGLISH

Questions And Politeness - Strategies In Social Interaction

by Esther N. Goody

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 These essays draw on material from speech communities in three continents to raise fundamental questions about the ways in which interrogative and politeness forms are used in day-to-day social interaction. The authors suggest that interrogative and politeness forms have universal features which make them efficient for certain strategies of interaction.
ENGLISH

The Developmental Cycle In Domestic Groups

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 This 1958 book demonstrates how the changing structure of the domestic group may be seen to explain otherwise obscure elements of the particular society.
ENGLISH

Succession To High Office

by Jack Goody

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies. Jack Goody's introduction spells out the main ways in which systems of succession to office differ, and assesses the problem each system solves and the dilemmas it creates. This is followed by four case studies.
ENGLISH

Aspects Of Caste In South India, Ceylon And North-West Pakistan

by E. R. Leach

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 When this book was originally published in paperback in 1971, one of the most debated themes in Indian sociology was the meaning of the term caste. At one extreme was the argument that caste cannot be isolated from its religious matrix; on the other, that it is a rigid form of social class hierarchy. This book tested these two hypotheses against the data.
ENGLISH

Inequality In New Guinea Highlands Societies

by Andrew Strathern

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Strathern's illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Guinea is now reissued with a new preface. The five papers in this volume seek to set these inequalities into a context of long-term and recent social changes that aim to develop schemes of analysis which will permit discussion of the societies over extended periods of time.
ENGLISH

Marriage In Tribal Societies

44,61€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Continuing a policy of devoting a whole issue to a single topic, the third volume of the series Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology deals with aspects of marriage in tribal societies.
ENGLISH

From Craft To Industry - The Ethnography Of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 The essays in this volume focus on two themes: the centrality of the production of and trade in cloth in the emergence of market activity; and the nature of the industrialization process. The core of the book is formed by four detailed ethnographic studies of the development and current organization of cloth production for the market, in different parts of the world.
ENGLISH

Councils In Action

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 A collection of seven papers by social anthropologists on the processes of decision-making in councils.
ENGLISH

Bridewealth And Dowry

by Jack Goody e S. J. Tambiah

18,86€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 In these insightful 1973 papers two leading authorities make a wide-ranging review of ideas and materials on bridewealth and dowry.
ENGLISH

Max Weber: Selections In Translation

by Max Weber

45,06€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Selected extracts from Max Weber's writings which reflect the full range of his concerns.
ENGLISH

Thinking - Readings In Cognitive Science

57,46€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This is a volume about the scientific study of thinking: its possibility, its part state and its future prospects.
ENGLISH

Caste Ideology And Interaction

57,46€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 The four papers collected here and published in 1982 are all concerned with caste ideology and caste interaction in different locales of South Asia.
ENGLISH

Grillparzer: A Critical Introduction

by W. E. Yates

5,15€

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This 1972 text provides the student of German literature and European drama with a general introduction to Grillparzer's work.
ENGLISH

An African Popular Literature - A Study Of Onitsha Market Pamphlets

by Emmanuel (University Of Nigeria) Obiechina

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This 1973 text was the first study of that phenomenon of the African literary scene, Onitsha market literature. Dr Obiechina asks what we can learn from the Onitsha authors about social change in Nigeria - how do they reconcile the traditional rural community and the aggressive individualistic urban society with alien values?

DIDN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?

Browse by the menu categories.

Check the search criteria in help .

Finally, if needed, use the we'll search for you .