One of the first books to be published in the UK on bereavement, this ground-breaking study presents the results of a survey of widows in London.

Recent research in Africa has shown a wide range of political systems, from small societies of wandering hunters to large states of several million people. In between are many societies in which a central government is lacking.

This book is unique in its approach in that each chapter covers women in their everyday lives and the problems, which concern them.

The force of hunger in shaping human character and social structure has been largely overlooked. This omission is a serious one in the study of primitive society, in which starvation is a constant menace.

This study of politics and government among a West African people, the Banyang of the Upper Cross River, covers the end of the period of Colonial administration.

An introduction to the ethnography and human geography of non-European peoples, this book deals with the economic and social life of a number of groups at diverse levels of cultural achievement and in different regions of the world.

This volume examines the work of three distinguished anthropologists that bears on kinship and determines what theoretical models are implicit in their writings, as well as assessing to what extent their claims have been validated.

This book examines the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American anthrop- ologists in the study of kinship and social organization and how they are the direct des- cendants of the researches of Lewis Henry Morgan.

Scrutinizes the questions of conceptualization, method and history in the fields of kinship, social anthropology and structuralism. It puts forward a radical revision of the conventional approaches and criteria.

This volume examines the effects of rural depopulation as a process on the structure of family and kinship within one small rural area, analysing the spatial relationships of social and economic change.