Anthropology from House of Our Own Books

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Berghahn Books, 2008. This is a political history of the emergence of social anthropology as an intellectual discipline in Britain between the 1930s and 1960s; it examines the role that institutions and resources of the British and Imperial state played in forstering the autonomy of the new social science; it tells the story of a… Read more about this item

Oxford, England, U.K.: Berg, 2004. This book contains the author's three lectures on Kinship and Social Organization delivered in 1913 at the London School of Economics and first published the following year, and his article The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Inquiry published in 1910 in The Sociological Review; also included are an introduction by Raymond Firth and two commentaries on… Read more about this item

London, England, U.K.: Bloomsbury, 2013. This is a collection of essays, originally delivered as papers at an interdisciplinary conference on Dress, Popular Culture, and Social Action in Africa at Northwestern University in 2009, and focused on dressed bodies and questions of agency and power; the essays are divided into four sections: Dressed Bodies and Power; Material Culture, Visual Recognition, and… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. This is a very large two-volume boxed set of color photographs of African rituals, based on ten years of field work across East, West, and Southern Africa; the authors' intent was to create a visual exploration of the meaning and power of traditional rituals and ceremonies they had witnessed before they… Read more about this item

Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1993. This is a collection of essays that explore the development of British anthropology in the period 1880 to 1920 when it involved not just the study of custom but also included archaeology, physical anthropology, and philology; they reveal how the emergence of new approaches of the 1920s and 1930s and the triumph of social… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Australia: Hyland House, 1997. This collection of letters sheds light on race, social conditions, and Aboriginal culture in central Australia and documents a crucial period in the history of anthropology; Gillen, the Station Master and Special Magistrate in Alice Springs, met Baldwin Spencer, Professor of Biology at the University of Melbourne, during the 1894 Horn Expedition to Central Australia;… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1998. In this book the authors explore the cultural and political implications of Africa's linguistic diversity (white pictorial covers with blue & orange lettering, photo of authors on the back; very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a… Read more about this item

London, England, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1967. First published in 1956, this is the third printing of the author's third and final volume on the Nuer, a Nilotic people who inhabit the Nile Valley of South Sudan, whose study he began with field work in 1930; includes photographs and other illustrations (black cloth with gold lettering on spine has very… Read more about this item

Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1966. Originally published in 1904, this is a facsimile edition (not print-on-demand) of a classic work of Australian anthropology, based on forty years of explorations of central Australia and investigations of the social organization, customs, and beliefs of the indigenous Australians (pictorial cover, pages very slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. This is a collection of papers by experts from four fields of anthropology, cultural, linguistic, biological,, and archaeological, that challenges the resurgence of reductive theories of human biological and social life; it presents evidence to contest these theories and to provide an account of the complexity and variability of the human condition… Read more about this item

Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007. This is the first comprehensive history of modern Australian social anthropology that examines the forces that shaped and framed the formation of a distinctive anthropological practice; it reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology as an academic discipline in Australia, which required anthropologists to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Originally published in 1912, this was the first major ethnographic account of the Sudan; it combines the local history of the province with the history of different ethnic groups and genealogies of the indigenous population; the author was the deputy inspector of Kordofan province from 1906 to 1912 and combined his… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Rand McNally & Company, 1971. This book is a collection of original theoretical essays on various topics related to socialization, the process by which individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, and disposition that enable them to participate effectively in social interaction; following an introduction by the editor, the twenty-nine essays are divided into four sections: Theoretical Approaches to… Read more about this item

Orlando, FL, U.S.A.: Academic Press, 1984. This book contains a selection of papers from the Third International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies held in Bad Homburg, Germany, in 1983; these papers combine archaeolgy, history, and ethnography to explore the relationship between prehistoric and living hunter gatherer societies; they look for both continuity in these societies through time and for… Read more about this item

Houston, TX, U.S.A.: Rothko Chapel, 1988. This book examines the factors behind ethnic strife that is prevalent in the social and political life of many third world countries; the essays bring together and compare similar ethnic struggles in areas where postcolonial nation-states have been created or revived, principally Latin America and Oceania; forward by Stanley Tambiah and afterward by Benedict… Read more about this item