Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “adam kuper”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Museum of Other People

    From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

    by Adam Kuper ...
    **A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology museums“A provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution . . . the argument [Kuper] makes in The Museum of Other People is important precisely because just about no one ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Reinvention of Primitive Society

    Transformations of a Myth

    by Adam Kuper ...
    The Invention of Primitive Society, Adam Kuper’s best selling critique of ideas about the origins of society and religion that have been much debated since Darwin, has been hugely influential in anthropology and post-colonial studies.This topical new edition, entitled The Reinvention of Primitive Society, has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of new research in the field. It ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Reinvention of Primitive Society

    Transformations of a Myth

    by Adam Kuper ...
    Series series Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology
    Adam Kuper’s iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of “primitive society” is a western myth. The “primitive” is imagined as the opposite of the “civilised”. But this is a protean myth. As ideas about civilisation change, so the image of primitive society must be adjusted.By way of fascinating account of classic texts in anthropology, ancient history and law, Kuper reveals how this ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Museum of Other People

    From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

    by Adam Kuper ...
    Narrated by Marisa Calin ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 12 min

    **A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology museums“A provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution . . . the argument [Kuper] makes in The Museum of Other People is important precisely because just about no one ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Social Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown

    Edited by Adam Kuper ...
    This is the first collection of Radcliffe-Brown's work chosen to represent his books as well as his essays. It includes some classic pieces, and also one or two lesser-known items. Radcliffe-Brown was a pioneer who established structural, sociological anthropology, in the face of the entrenched traditions of ethnology and social evolutionism. First published in 1977. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Social Science Encyclopedia

    Edited by Adam Kuper, Jessica Kuper ...
    The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists, librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe it as a classic. This third edition has been radically recast. Over half the entries are new or have been entirely rewritten, and most of the balance have been substantially revised.Written by an international team of ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Conceptualizing Society

    Edited by Adam Kuper ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the postmodernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view that no theory could possibly do justice to the insights and complex descriptions of ethnography. In ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Fundamentals of Sociology

    by P. Gisbert ...
    F"Fundamentals of Sociology is an introduction to the definition, methods and fundamental concepts of sociology. The book prepares the ground for the study of the origins and structures of society and social groups in correlation with other social sciences. In doing so the author looks into the most important facet of social structure—social institutions—which in their varied forms act as agents ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology

    Edited by Alan Barnard, Jonathan Spencer ...
    Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. Combining anthropological theory and ethnography, it includes 275 substantial entries, over 300 short biographies of important figures in anthropology, and nearly 600 glossary items. The fully revised and expanded ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • History and Theory in Anthropology

    by Alan Barnard ...
    Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Symbolic Construction of Community

    by Anthony P. Cohen ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as ... Read more

    Was $80.99 USD Now $71.99 USD

  • Social Anthropology

    by E.E. Evans-Pritchard ...
    Social Anthropology explains and illustrates the methods of modern anthropology, tracing its development from pre-nineteenth-century philosophical speculations and the empirical work of explorers, missionaries and colonial servants, up to the second half of the twentieth century.First published in 1951. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD