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Every year, leading social anthropologists meet in Manchester to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject. Key Debates in Anthropology collects together the first six of these debates, spanning the period from 1988 to 1993. For each debate there are four prin... More

There have been rapid advances in anthropological knowledge on a wide variety of fronts in recent years. This Companion provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology. In bringing these three fields together, it establishes their interconnect... More

In this work Tim Ingold provides a persuasive new approach to the theory behind our perception of the world around us. The core of the argument is that where we refer to cultural variation we should be instead be talking about variation in skill. Neither genetically innate or culturally acquired, sk... More

This is the first book to explore the production and significance of lines. As walking, talking, gesticulating creatures, human beings generate lines wherever they go: here, Ingold lays the foundations for an anthropological archaeology of the line. He investigates: speech and song in the cultures o... More

There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. "Creativity and Cultural Improvisation" casts fresh, anthropological eyes on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. The book explores the ways creative agency is attributed i... More

"What is an Animal?" presents a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality which are deeply embedded in our own ways of thought. The ten closely interconnected essays raise a host of issues and debates of vital contemporary concern in archaeology and anthropology. ... More

Throughout the northern circumpolar tundras and forests, and over many millennia, human populations have based their livelihood wholly or in part upon the exploitation of a single animal species-the reindeer. Yet some are hunters, others pastoralists, while today traditional pastoral economies are b... More

Hunting and gathering peoples in the contemporary world exemplify the human predicament in two radically different ways. This book written by some of the world's leading authorities on hunting and gathering societies, offers radically new ideas on these concerns.All that is central to the dynamic pr... More

The chapters in this book set aside once and for all the view that hunter-gatherer society is unchanging and alters only in response to external impacts. Social change is without doubt inherent even at the level of the most basic human community. Such dynamics can be understood only by examining bot... More

The question addressed by this volume is how human beings have evolved as creatures who can make and use more complex tools, communicate in more complex ways, and engage in more complex forms of social life, than any other species in the animal kingdom. The topics explored include the parallels amon... More