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  • Anthropology Reconsidered

    Science, Social Organization, Epistemology

    by Murray J. Leaf ...
    Anthropology Reconsidered argues that anthropology can and should be considered a genuine science of humanity. The work traces the evolution of anthropological thought from its 18th-century origins through contemporary debates, analyzing how competing epistemological traditions—empirical/skeptical versus dogmatic—have shaped theoretical approaches to social organization and kinship studies.The ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Introduction to the Science of Kinship

    by Murray J. Leaf, Dwight Read ...
    Series series Anthropology of Kinship and the Family
    In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read show how humans use specific systems of social ideas to organize their kinship relations and illustrate what this implies for the science of human social organization. Leaf and Read explain that every human society has multiple social organizations, each of which is associated with a distinct vocabulary. This vocabulary is ... Read more

    $113.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Western Religions

    Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies

    by Murray J. Leaf ...
    The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Eastern Religions

    Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies

    by Murray J. Leaf ...
    The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy

    The Community of Scholars in America

    by Murray J. Leaf ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This anthropological study of university governance organizations has four main purposes. It aims to describe the principles of effective faculty governance organizations and shared governance; to help mobilize opposition to a large and extremely well-funded system of political attacks aimed at destroying faculty governance organizations; to demonstrate the value of the theory of human social ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Human Thought and Social Organization

    Anthropology on a New Plane

    by Dwight Read, Murray J. Leaf ...
    Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species: the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism and the elaboration of our forms of social organization. The view taken in Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane is that these are intimately interconnected. To understand this connection, the book compares ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Theory of the Leisure Class - The Original Classic Edition

    by Veblen Thorstein ...
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  • Mrs. Astor Regrets

    The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach

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