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1	Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist When it was first published in 1973, with a revised edition in 1983, Adam Kuper's entertaining account of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions. As Man , the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, put it in its review of the book: His audacity in desacrilising the godlike founding fathers of our ... see all copies from $2.24! new only from $39.83!
2	Culture: The Anthropologists' Account more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist In this text, Adam Kuper pursues the concept of culture from the early 20th-century debates about its adoption by American social science under the tutelage of Talcott Parsons. What follows is the story of how the idea fared within American anthropology, the discipline that took on culture as its special subject. Here the reader sees the influence ... see all copies from $8.55! new only from $24.94!
3	The Social Science Encyclopedia more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist The new edition of this already classic reference work, which was first published in 1985 to great acclaim from social scientists, librarians and professionals, has been updated and radically recast. Ninety per cent of the entries are either new, entirely rewritten or substantially revised. The new entries cover developments in traditional fields ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $53.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist We are all Darwinians now. Yet is there a Darwinian explanation for the evolution of human nature? The great debates about human origins, cultural history and human nature confront us with two opposing - often irreconcilable - images of human beings. One view emphasizes biology, the other emphasizes culture as the foundation of human behaviour. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist Both a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how, since Darwin, anthropologists have tried to define the original form of human society. The first generation - from Henry Maine to Lewis Henry Morgan - initiated the search. By the end of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.87! \| first editions
6	Councils in Action more books like this by Audrey Isabel Richards, Adam Kuper (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of seven papers by social anthropologists on the processes of decision-making in councils. Types of council described are one community-in-council, two arena councils, an elite council, two modern local government councils and a non-council, a temporary negotiating group which nevertheless displays certain features of the council ... see all copies from $3.92! new only from $26.97! \| first editions
7	The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist "The Invention of Primitive Society", Adam Kuper's best selling critique of ideas about the origins of society and religion that have been much debated since Darwin, has been hugely influential in anthropology and post-colonial studies. This topical new edition, entitled "The Reinvention of Primitive Society", has been thoroughly revised and ... see all copies from $30.19! new only from $34.90! \| SVS
8	Anthropology/Anthropologists PB more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist A critical and historical account of British social anthropology from the mid-19th century to the present day, aimed especially at students new to the subject. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $54.94!
9	Conceptualising Society more books like this by Adam Kuper (Editor) add to wishlist The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the post-modernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view that no theory could possibly do justice to the ... see all copies from $68.62! new only from $141.74! \| SVS
10	Wives for Cattle: Bridewealth and Marriage in Southern Africa more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Kalahari Village Politics: An African Democracy more books like this by Adam Kuper, Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.80! first editions \| SVS
12	Changing Jamaica more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13	South Africa and the Anthropologist more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist see all copies from $36.64!
14	The Social Science Encyclopedia, Volume 1 more books like this by Adam Kuper (Editor), Jessica Kuper (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $46.54! new only from $136.46!
15	The Social Science Encyclopedia, Volume 2 more books like this by Adam Kuper (Editor), Jessica Kuper (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $184.91!
16	Anthropologists and Anthropology: The British School, 1922-1972 more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist see all copies from $4.43! first editions
17	Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England more books like this by Adam Kuper add to wishlist Like many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. "Incest and Influence" shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $25.90! \| SVS
18	The Social Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown more books like this by Adam Kuper (Editor) add to wishlist This is the first collection of Radcliffe-Brown's work chosen to represent his books as well as his essays. It includes some classic pieces, and also one or two lesser-known items. Radcliffe-Brown was a pioneer who established structural, sociological anthropology, in the face of the entrenched traditions of ethnology and social evolutionism. ... see all copies from $210.06! new only from $210.06!
19	L'anthropologie britannique au XXe siècle by Adam Kuper add to wishlist see all copies from $65.80! new only from $86.50!

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