In the village of Elmdon in north-west Essex, members of certain families are distinguished from ...

Categories of analysis in the social sciences include the binary pair 'nature' and 'culture', as ...

After Nature is a timely account of fundamental constructs in English kinship at a moment when de...

The question of 'equality' between the sexes has long been of long-standing interest among anthro...

With contributions from leading academics from a range of study areas such as anthropology, polit...

The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this colle...

An examination of the contexts in which people make different orders of knowledge as a prelude to...

Available with a new Preface, Marilyn Strathern's seminal book challenges the routine ways in whi...

How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities about so...

In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates ...

In Commons and Borderlands a leading social anthropologist examines early twenty-first-century in...

In 1971 Marilyn Strathern provided what has now become a classic ethnographic text, Women In Betw...