Accessible and engaging, with unique first-hand accounts from indigenous peoples, this is a truly international introduction to social anthropology.The book uses a student-friendly approach with clear and engaging writing style. It contains two new chapters on key current issues as well as innovativ[...]

This book explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers. The articles shed light on a Japan outside officialdom, a lively Japan of tumultuous and independent thought, inefficient and aesthetic, pleasure-loving, aggressive [...]

The publication of "Other People's Worlds" nearly a decade ago offered readers the perfect introduction to cultural and social anthropology, introducing classic theoretical ideas of the key founders of cultural and social anthropology and placing them in their historical and geographical context. No[...]

Focuses on the renewal of cultural identity, especially in populations previously considered 'extinct'. The author sets out to explain the importance of ensuring the survival of these cultures. By drawing a fine picture of these cultures, he illuminates extraordinary diversity that was seriously end[...]