Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a number ...

In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but ...

Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of ...

What view of man did the French Revolutionaries hold? Anyone who purports to be interested in the "Rights of Man" could be expected to see this question ...

One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. ...

Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations ...

Demographic study and the idea of a "population" was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social ...

Studies of the military that deal with the actual experience of troops in the field are still rare in the social sciences. In fact, this ethnographic ...

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This ...

Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is ...