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Choice and Change
This volume in honour of Professor Mair reflects the range of her interests, and those of the Department in which she taught, in many areas of social anthropology, for it reports on research in Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean, on the tensions between tradition and modernity, between the individual and society, deviance and conformity, stability and conflict. The ambiguities of social change and the choices thus presented to individuals are examined in all the essays and issues of modem politics and development dominate most of them.
Choice and Change
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Colonialism and Change
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Primitive Government
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African Marriage and Social Change
First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Anthropology and Development
Essay explaining the potential contribution of social and cultural anthropology to economic and social development in developing countries - in the light of traditional family life style, and social structure of nomads and peasant farmers, discusses customary law governing land title, land reform, land improvement, and income generating activities of rural women; investigates roots of economic disparity, informal sector entrepreneurship, resettlement due to dam construction, slum clearance and urbanization, etc. Bibliography.
Creative Lives and Works
Creative Lives and Works: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the five conversations in this volume, are part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences, the sciences to the performing and visual arts. The current volume on five of England’s foremost social anthropologists is the second in the series of several such books. These conversations and talks are interlaced with rich ethnography and interpretations of distant civilizations and t...
