A provocative, wide-ranging study which challenges our assumptions about Eastern 'backwardness'.

This book is an attempt to see the development of domestic institutions, the family, marriage, co...

In this book, the author provides a detailed analysis of kinship, household and family relations ...

This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europ...

Both biologists and social scientists have much to say about human behaviour. Yet attempts to com...

Defining lies as statements that are intended to deceive, this book considers the contexts in whi...

This collection brings together Emrys Peters' major writings on the Bedouin of Libya.

This 1979 text addresses the strong criticism of dominant theories in large areas of Western soci...

Social scientists, when making their studies of the structure of family groups, have often observ...

Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential cri...

The focus of this book is on the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its...

An original and innovative study of the pre-eminently social character of human ecological relati...