Anthropology
Cambridge University Press has a long-established list of prestigious publishing within the diverse field of anthropology. With internationally renowned authors such as Sir Jack Goody and Lord Garry Runciman, our list features both classic texts and cutting-edge research. Our publishing spans from physical anthropology to social and cultural anthropology, and now includes fascinating publications from the Cambridge Library Collection.
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The Spirit of Mourning
Discusses how the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, is inscribed within human bodies.
- $28.99 (Z)
Recasting Anthropological Knowledge
This collection provides an innovative and multifaceted reflection on the impact and inspiration Marilyn Strathern's scholarship has for contemporary anthropology.
- $95.00 (C)
AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa
This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. It demonstrates why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed – and possibly been counterproductive. Through the songs of female initiation, AIDS education, and wandering minstrels, the book argues that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate.
- $90.00 (C)
Social Anthropology and Human Origins
In this powerful study the distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard addresses the fundamental questions surrounding the evolution of human society.
- $27.99 (Z)
An Anthropology of Ethics
Through critical revision of Foucault's investigation of ethics, Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain.
- $29.99 (Z)
Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law
Ronald Niezen examines the impact of public opinion on the processes by which human rights are defended in international law.
- $27.99 (Z)
Myth, Ritual and the Oral
Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy.
- $24.99 (Z)
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