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While much has been written about the work of Malinowski, little is known about his personal life. These letters, available for the first time, offer an insight of the man not just as teacher and scientist but as a husband, father and friend.
By utilising a mixture of styles - narrative and life history, ethnographic observation and the diary kept by Mohammed, a Swahili peasant, this book grapples with issues raised by personal narratives, authorial authority and reflexivity.
In 1944 Skultans left Latvia as a refugee. In 1990 she returned for the first time. This book is both a personal account of a homecoming, and an anthropology of a nation trying to come to terms with its past and facing an uncertain future.
This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day.
The volume presents the diary of one of the great anthropologists at a crucial time in his career. Malinowski's major works grew out of his findings on field trips to New Guinea and North Melanesia from 1914-1918.
Haraway, one of the most highly regarded theorists in America, discusses her intellectual development and influences, the role of Catholicism in her thinking and how her ethical stands have mirrored issues in her personal life.
A biography of scientific thinker Joseph Banks, placing his work in the context of eighteenth-century Britain.
An account of the "adventures" of a Yorkshireman, first published in 1911, of his early life as a sailor, participation in the Matabele War, and his largely succesful attempts to unite the Kikuyu tribe.
An examination of the work of Henry Fairfield Osborn, whose great scientific concern was to link human origins to racial hierarchies. A product of conflicting paradigms, the author suggests that Osborn's empirical quest was inextricably linked to his hope of salvation.
Robin Fox, one of the preeminent anthropologists of our time, takes us on an exuberant personal, intellectual and cultural journey through the 1930s to the 1970s
Casting new light on scholarly understandings of the connections between politics, witchcraft and AIDS in South Africa, this biography reconstructs the life... Læs mere
This study offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By... Læs mere