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Since its first publication in English in 1954, <I>The Gift</I>, Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure, has...

<p>In August 2003, the world gained access to a remarkable new voice: a blog written by a 25-year-old Iraqi woman living in Baghdad, whose identity remained concealed for her...

<DIV>In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called <i>travestis</i> in Po...

New Yorker writer William Finnegan spent time with families in four communities across America and became an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in these beautifully rendered...

This re-examination of the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea, the people described in Malinowski’s classic ethnographic work of the early 20th century, provides a balanced view of t...

<p> This classic paperback is available once again--and exclusively--from Harvard University Press. </p><p> This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member o...