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  • The Craft of Social Anthropology

    by A.L. Epstein ...
    In social anthropology, as in other branches of science, there is a close relationship between research methods and theoretical problems. Advancing theory and shifts in orientation go hand in hand with the development of techniques and mutually influence one another. If the development of modern social anthropology owes much to its established tradition of fieldwork, it is also clear that the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Ethos and Identity

    Three Studies in Ethnicity

    by A.L. Epstein, Alan Merriam ...
    Ethos and Identity asks the ever-puzzling question: What is ethnicity and how is it to be explained? In a new introduction to this work, Athena Leoussi describes Epstein's response to this challenging age-old query, and demonstrates why this classic volume is of continuing importance.Originally published thirty years ago, Ethos and Identity still fascinates the twenty-first century reader. Epstein ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on ... Read more

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  • Jurisprudence

    by Suri Ratnapala ...
    The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence ... Read more

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  • Legal Anthropology

    An Introduction

    by James M. Donovan ...
    Legal Anthropology: An Introduction offers an initial overview of the challenging debates surrounding the cross-cultural analysis of legal systems. Equal parts review and criticism, James M. Donovan outlines the historical landmarks in the development of the discipline, identifying both strengths and weaknesses of each stage and contribution. Legal Anthropology suggests that future progress can be ... Read more

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  • Order and Dispute: An Introduction to Legal Anthropology

    by Simon Roberts ...
    Classic resource in the modern study of legal anthropology, this acclaimed book is now available in an updated, expanded Second Edition. There are many societies that survive in a remarkably orderly fashion without the aid of judges, courts and police. Roberts contends that legal theory has become too closely identified with our own arrangements to be of use in understanding other legal systems. ... Read more

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  • The Constitutional State

    by N.W. Barber ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    The Constitutional State provides an original analytical account of the state and its associated constitutional phenomena. It presents the state as a form of social group, consisting of people, territory and institutions bound together by rules. The institutions of the state make a distinctive and characteristic claim over the people of the state, who, in turn, have a distinctive and ... Read more

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  • A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays

    by Bronislaw Malinowski ...
    This vintage text contains three essays by Bronislaw Malinowski on the theory of functionalism. The first essay stipulates that anthropology can be viewed in a scientific manner, and offers insights into culture, human nature, and the ideal object of study. The other essays in this collection further explore functionalism and analyse the work and influence of Sir James Frazer on the field of ... Read more

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  • Legal Systems and Incest Taboos

    The Transition from Childhood to Adolescence

    by John R. Commons, Yehudi A. Cohen ...
    The goal of this book is to investigate why there are two distinct notions of liability in the legal and ethical systems of different societies; the relationship between two sets of criteria of liability and the individual's evolution from childhood adolescence. The specific ways in which different societies cope with the transition from childhood to adolescence are important because a sense of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • A Companion to Applied Philosophy

    Edited by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee, David Coady ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of ... Read more

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  • The Emotional Construction of Morals

    by Jesse Prinz ...
    Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. In the first half of the book, Jesse Prinz defends the hypothesis that morality has an emotional foundation. ... Read more

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  • Adam Smith's Economics

    Its Place in the Development of Economic Thought

    by Maurice Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Adam Smith
    The conventional received opinion of Adam Smith as an isolated figure, the founder of ‘modern’ economics, is thoroughly mistaken and misleading. This is the central premise of this book, first published in 1988, in which the author argues that by placing Smith’s work in its historical context, we discover profound continuities between Smith’s work and that of his predecessors, and his ... Read more

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