Central as kinship has been to the development of British social anthropology, this is the first
attempt by an anthropologist to situate ideas about English kinship in a cultural context …

These essays, written at the time when the Bill for Human Fertilization and Embryology Act
(1990) was going through Parliament, touch on the British debate (on in vitro fertilization …

As well as being a major anthropological study of the Marakwet, Space, Text and Gender
strikingly illustrates how the idea of a cultural text can aid the analysis of ethnographic …

European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries
thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to …

Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural
Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the …

Falar sobre a família como foco de intervenção exige aprofundar a discussão sobre o que é
uma família e como ela pode servir ou não de recurso em programas de intervenção; exige …

The deleterious effects of mental fatigue (MF) on athletes have been carefully studied in
various sports, such as soccer, badminton, and swimming. Even though many researchers …

In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger
directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock …

The deleterious consequences of mental fatigue (MF) on athletes in diverse sporting
domains have been subject to extensive inquiry. However, the efficacy of interventions to …

Para analisar o sistema familiar dos negros do Recôncavo da Bahia, Nordeste do Brasil, é
preciso compreender a construção cultural da organização e das relações sociais, bem …