Stanley J. Tambiah discusses the life of Edmund Leach (1910-1989), one of Britain's foremost soci...

The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who...

World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the rela...

Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrat...

Bridewealth and dowry have certain obvious similarities in that they both involve the transmissio...

In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies engage global and lo...

Dr Tambiah describes the religious practices and beliefs of the people of a remote village in nor...

The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the ...

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Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrat...