No one working in Africa today or studying Africa in any discipline whatever can afford to ignore the anthropological literature. It has long been the foundational background for a variety of African studies. However, there has never been a succinct historical description of the way the Africanist field has evolved in anthropology, together with a broad bibliographical guide. This book supplies that basic information. But it does more It reviews the field as a controversial history of ideas. African studies in anthropology throw light on the way Anglo-Europeans and Americans have conceived...
No one working in Africa today or studying Africa in any discipline whatever can afford to ignore the anthropological literature. It has long been ...
No one working in Africa today or studying Africa in any discipline whatever can afford to ignore the anthropological literature. It has long been the foundational background for a variety of African studies. However, there has never been a succinct historical description of the way the Africanist field has evolved in anthropology, together with a broad bibliographical guide. This book supplies that basic information. But it does more It reviews the field as a controversial history of ideas. African studies in anthropology throw light on the way Anglo-Europeans and Americans have conceived...
No one working in Africa today or studying Africa in any discipline whatever can afford to ignore the anthropological literature. It has long been ...
This Reader offers a remarkable overview of the field of law and anthropology: its development, present, and potential future courses.
Edited by a preeminent anthropologist, lawyer, and pioneer in the study of law & anthropology.
Brings together classics of political thought and key contemporary work from social scientists and lawyers.
Explores historical issues and more contemporary ones such as illegal migration, human rights, gender discrimination, political corruption, and reparations for injustices committed by previous...
This Reader offers a remarkable overview of the field of law and anthropology: its development, present, and potential future courses. <...
Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major industrialists, to Harvard, to the Spanish archives where she studied the Inca political system, and to the mountain of Kilimanjaro where she studied the politics of Tanzanian socialism. This book offers a compelling tour of Moore's diverse experiences, a history of her thought as she reflects on her life and thought in the disciplines of anthropology, law, and politics. The essays range from...
Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nurember...
This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts reproduced are significant yet often neglected, and have stood the test of time. New edition of Otto Raum's 1939 study of childhood in East Africa, published in association with the International African Institute North America: Transaction Books; Germany: Lit Verlag
This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in...
