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(P/B) FIFTY KEY ANTHROPOLOGISTS
Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by an international range of expert contributors, represent the diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic theorists and more recent anthropological thinkers. Names discussed include: Clifford Geertz, Bronislaw Malinowski, Zora Neale Hurston, Sherry B. Ortner, Claude L?vi-Strauss, Rodney Needham, Mary Douglas, Marcel Mauss. This accessible A-Z guide contains helpful cross-referencing, a ...
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(P/B) IRREGULAR CONNECTIONS (080328036X)
Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons argue that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex, including debates about prostitution, homosexuality, divorce, premarital relations, and hierarchies of gender, class, and race. Because sex is the most private of ac...
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