The Dinka of the Sudan (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s

The US Divided: The Civil conflict of the Nineteen Sixties, 5th version, is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural heritage of Sixties the US. Written by way of best specialists at the era--Maurice Isserman, a historian of yankee radicalism, and Michael Kazin, a expert in social movements--this publication offers a compelling story of this tumultuous period jam-packed with clean and persuasive insights.

Understanding Scotland: The Sociology of a Stateless Nation (International Library of Sociology)

Scotland stands on the centre of sociological matters within the overdue twentieth century. instead of being a clumsy, sick becoming case, a state with no country, it really is on the centre of the discipline's postmodernist trouble. Scotland has been a part of the uk, a hugely centralized and unitary kingdom for almost three hundred years, but has survived the Union in 1707 as a particular civil society.

Kinship, Networks, and Exchange (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

The rationale of this selection of unique essays is to revitalize the learn of kinship and trade in a social community standpoint. the gathering combines reports of empirical platforms of marriage and descent with investigations of the move of fabric assets. This ebook marks the emergence of a brand new period within the research of kinship and alternate utilizing a effective blend of ethnographic substance with formal tools, one that leaves in the back of older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.