When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester...

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Christopher A. Gregory's Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of eco...

Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and virtuous, it ...

Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anth...

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The Owners of Kinship investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmet...

How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. D...

What do we mean when we refer to world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the tw...

Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely...