SeriesCambridge Studies in Social Anthropology

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Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by S. J. Tambiah 37 copies2
Kalahari Village Politics: An African Democracy by Adam Kuper 4 copies3
The Rope of Moka: Big-men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen New Guinea by Andrew Strathern 16 copies4
The Majangir - Ecology and Society of a Southwest Ethiopian People by Jack Stauder 2 copies5
Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Jane Bunnag 8 copies6
Contexts of kinship; an essay in the family sociology of the Gonja of Northern Ghana by Esther N. Goody 2 copies7
Marriage among a matrilineal elite; a family study of Ghanaian senior civil servants by Christine Oppong 5 copies8
Women and Property in Morocco: Their Changing Relation to the Process of Social Stratification in the Middle Atlas by Vanessa Maher 12 copies10
Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal by Alan Macfarlane 2 copies12
Mediterranean Family Structures by J. G. Peristiany 6 copies13
Spirits of Protest: Spirit-Mediums and the Articulation of Consensus among the Zezuru of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) by Peter Fry 1 copy14
World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background by S. J. Tambiah 29 copies15
Production and Reproduction: A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain by Jack Goody 35 copies17
The Fate of Shechem or the Politics of Sex: Essays in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Julian Pitt-Rivers 7 copies19
People of the zongo : the transformation of ethnic identities in Ghana by Enid Schildkrout 4 copies20
Casting Out Anger: Religion Among the Taita of Kenya by Grace Gredys Harris 5 copies21
Australian Kin Classification by Harold W. Scheffler 7 copies23
The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia by Stephen Hugh-Jones 10 copies24
From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia by Christine Hugh-Jones 16 copies26
Day of Shining Red (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Gilbert Lewis 9 copies27
Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers: Reindeer Economies and their Transformations by Tim Ingold 12 copies28
Wood-Carvers of Hong Kong: Craft Production in the World Capitalist Periphery by Eugene Cooper 0 copies29
Patrons, partisans, and palace intrigues : the court society of colonial Mexico, 1702-1710 by Christoph Rosenmüller 3 copies31
Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner 47 copies32
Chinese Ritual and Politics by Emily Martin Ahern 7 copies34
Parenthood and social reproduction : fostering and occupational roles in West Africa by Esther N. Goody 2 copies35
Dravidian Kinship by Thomas R. Trautmann 3 copies36
The Political Economy of West African Agriculture by Keith Hart 10 copies36
Rural Society in Southeast India by Kathleen Gough 3 copies38
The fish people : linguistic exogamy and Tukanoan identity in northwest Amazonia by Jean E. Jackson 5 copies39
Karl Marx Collective: Economy, Society and Religion in a Siberian Collective Farm by Caroline Humphrey 7 copies, 1 review40
Ecology and Exchange in the Andes (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by David Lehmann 2 copies41
Traders Without Trade Trade: Responses to Change in Two Dyula Communities by Robert Launay 1 copy42
Actions, Norms and Representations: Foundations of Anthropological Enquiry (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Ladislav Holy 3 copies45
Structural Models in Anthropology by Per Hage 13 copies46
Servants of the goddess : the priests of a south Indian temple by C. J. Fuller 5 copies47
The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah 30 copies49
Individual and society in Guiana : a comparative study of Amerindian social organization by Peter Rivière 9 copies51
On Anthropological Knowledge: Three Essays by Dan Sperber 39 copies54
The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya by Maurice Godelier 42 copies56
Strategies and norms in a changing matrilineal society : descent, succession, and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia by Ladislav Holý 3 copies58
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms by Frank Salomon 5 copies59
Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Illustration by Gerald M. Sider 10 copies60
From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina by Maurice Bloch 17 copies61
The Huli Response to Illness by Stephen Frankel 10 copies, 2 reviews62
Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea by Fredrik Barth 10 copies, 1 review64
Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana by Raymond T Smith 6 copies65
Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse by Nicholas Thomas 6 copies67
Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse by Pascal Boyer 11 copies, 1 review68
The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia by R Brunton 2 copies69

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Edited by Meyer Fortes and Jack GoodySeventy volumes published between 1967 and 1990. Continued by Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural AnthropologyThe following works were originally published outside the series and are not included:number 11, Rethinking symbolism by Dan Sperber;number 16, Outline of a theory of practice by Pierre Bourdieu;number 18, Perspectives in Marxist anthropology by Maurice Godelier;number 25, Nomads of South Siberia : the pastoral economies of Tuva by S. I. Vaĭnshteĭn;number 33, Why marry her? : society and symbolic structures by Luc de Heusch;number 37, The anthropological circle : symbol, function, history by Marc Augé;number 44, Nomads and the outside world by A.M. Khazanov;number 48, Oedipus and Job in West African religion by Meyer Fortesnumber 50, Kinship and marriage : an anthropological perspective by Robin Fox;number 54, On anthropological knowledge : three essays by Dan Sperber; [But original publication was in French as Le Savoir des Anthropologues by Hermann, Paris, 1982. Published in English, with revisions, for this series by Cambridge University Press and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1985]number 55, Tales of the Yanomami : daily life in the Venezuelan forest by Jacques Lizot;number 57, Age class systems : social institutions and polities based on age by Bernardo BernardiLT is missing:number 1, The political organization of Unyamwezi by R. G. Abrahams;number 5, The Majangir; ecology and society of a southwest Ethiopian people by Jack Stauder;number 9, Elite politics in rural India : political stratification and political alliances in Western Maharashtra by Anthony T. Carter;number 22, Rituals of the Kandyan state by H. L. Seneviratne;number 30, Minangkabau social formations : Indonesian peasants and the world economy by Joel S. Kahn;number 52, People and the state : an anthropology of planned development by A.F. Robertson;number 53, Inequality among brothers : class and kinship in South China by Rubie S. Watson;number 63, Social inequality in a Portuguese hamlet : land, late marriage, and bastardy, 1870-1978 by Brian Juan O’Neill;number 66, The making of the Basque nation by Marianne Heiberg (English, Unclassified)

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