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  • The Gift

    Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Translated by Ian Cunnison ...
    The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (French: Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques) is a 1925 essay by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange.-Print ed. ... Read more

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  • The Nuer:

    A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People

    In 1930, anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard journeyed deep into the Sudanese savanna to uncover the mysteries of the nomadic Nuer tribes - this book presents his compelling discoveries.The harsh dry plains of the Sudan cannot sustain sufficient agriculture for the tribes; to thrive, the Nuer move their camps in accordance with the seasons. At the core of daily life are cattle whose milk and meat ... Read more

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  • African Political Systems

    African Political Systems is a foundational work in the field of anthropology and political science, edited by Meyer Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. First published in 1940, the book offers a comparative study of governance structures across various African societies, challenging earlier Western assumptions about political organization in non-Western cultures.Through a series of in-depth case ... Read more

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  • The Moulids of Egypt

    Egyptian Saint’s Day Festivals

    A fascinating and highly original contribution to the study of Egypt’s religious folklore.First published in Cairo during World War II, The Moulids of Egypt is a study of moulids, the popular Egyptian religious festivals celebrated by both Muslims and Christians in the first half of the twentieth century. The book talks in detail about the secular side of moulids, where sports, games, theatres, ... Read more

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  • The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    This description of the political system of the Anuak is part of the results of two expeditions by the author to East Africa in 1940. Although Anuak country had been visited in 1855 by the Maltese Andrea Debono and Philippe Terranuova D'Antonio and by several other European travellers thirty to forty years ago, the Italian Bottego (1897),the French missions under De Bonchamps (1897) and Faivre ... Read more

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  • Social Anthropology

    Social Anthropology explains and illustrates the methods of modern anthropology, tracing its development from pre-nineteenth-century philosophical speculations and the empirical work of explorers, missionaries and colonial servants, up to the second half of the twentieth century.First published in 1951. ... Read more

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  • African Political Systems

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1940 and this edition in 1987, this book is a comparative study of African political institutions. It describes different types of social organisation that are found in a number of African societies and analyses the principles underlying these traditional forms of government.The volume represents the results of field studies carried out by trained investigators in a number of ... Read more

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    This classic work of anthropology explores the transitional stages of an individual's life and the societal rituals involved.Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark book explores how the life ... Read more

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    by Amin Maalouf ...
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    Series series Routledge Classics
    Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. ... Read more

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  • Beyond Nature and Culture

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    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, ... Read more

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