, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV, and Charles I--acclaimed historian Paul Strathern tells the vivid story of this paradoxical age...... more

Unearthly Powers (2019), Alan Strathern set out a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between religion and...... more

Unearthly Powers (2019), Alan Strathern set out a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between religion and...... more

The Kindness Economy is a powerful new force for change in business that will benefit not just socie... more

, Rabelais, van Eyck, and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of how this "Other Renaissance" played as...... more

chemistry and the role of one man’s dream. In this elegant, erudite, and entertaining book, Paul Strathern unravels the quixotic...... more

The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family-a world of saints, corrupt popes, and deprave... more

By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain them... more

lives they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of this key concept and...... more

This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres... more

By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain them... more

In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between language in particular and...... more

Strathern unravels the quixotic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements....... more

For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology... more

anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized...... more

Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the...... more

, Taiwan, and Scotland, and Ireland, Stewart and Strathern show how fieldwork in apparently different areas can lead to...... more

This work is to honour Professor Peter M. Allen, a seminal figure in the foundation and development ... more

Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrate... more

Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrate... more

Leonardo da Vinci, Niccol Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia--three iconic figures whose intersecting li... more

both Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- both of the University of Pittsburgh -- bring together a number of interests...... more

In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte, only twenty-eight, set sail for Egypt with 335 ships, 40,000 soldiers, ... more

Now reissued in paperback with a new preface. The Highlands societies of Papua New Guinea, which hav... more

various families, work patterns and community activities, Marilyn Strathern provides an understanding of the characteristics...... more

The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collecti... more

When the Portuguese arrived on the shores of Sri Lanka in 1506, they opened an era in which religiou... more

What is terror? What are its roots and its results -- and what part does it play in human experience... more

In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for... more

Marilyn Strathern takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society--anthropologists using relationships to uncover...... more

Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world’s great writers. He...... more

Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world’s great writers. He...... more

Marilyn Strathern takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society--anthropologists using relationships to uncover...... more

Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world’s great writers. He...... more

This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres... more

Available with a new Preface, Marilyn Strathern’s seminal book challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists...... more

Available with a new Preface, Marilyn Strathern’s seminal book challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists...... more

In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for... more

How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial an... more

How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial an... more

More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by government departments, companies or ... more

Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and sor... more

Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and sor... more

How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The cont... more

Strathern s questioning of this process addresses the challenge that notions of property ownership pose to the expected flow of...... more

The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring do... more

These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in ente... more

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in ... more

This book considers in depth the emergent theme of concerns over bodily fluids in health and wellnes... more

In Derrida in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Derrida’s life and ideas, and explains...... more

Do audit cultures deliver greater responsibility, or do they stifle creative thought? We are all inc... more