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This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice.

This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography.

Explores issues of self-help, development and education among the Kamba of Kitui District.

Malta's independence was achieved despite a confusion of internal conflicts. The author examines the importance of the cults of saints and the bitter rivalry between them. Both in its description of village festive and political life and in the analysis of conflicts and factions, this book is a contribution to political anthropology.

Through a range of ethnographic case studies focusing on the Portuguese recovery after the economic crisis, this book begins a conversation about the experience of recuperation and repair.

Provides an analysis of communication and society in Pahang, West Malaysia. This work focuses on the role of communication in the process of economic development and on administration. It is useful for students of Southeast Asian societies, rural sociology, network studies, economic development, political education and the mass media.

A monograph analyzing and comparing two development schemes started in Lesotho. This book presents the factors making for success or failure, particularly in the fields of politics, economics, and communication. It is an analysis dealing with problems common to introduced social change and development.

Provides an analysis of the political organization of the traditional government of the Malay Sultans before the introduction of British rule in 1874.

Relates the evolution and the structure of the Cambodian Chinese community to the evidence from other overseas Chinese communities, and moves on to a comparison between overseas Chinese social organization and the organization of cities in China. Cambodia, the overseas Chinese, and traditional China all stand illuminated.

Provides an account by a social anthropologist of a Polynesian ritual cycle. This single-volume includes a theoretical introduction, and supplies postscripts to some of the chapters comparing the performances of 1928-29 with those witnessed by Professor Firth on his second visit to Tikopia in 1952.

Illness is a matter of concern in every society. This study of the occurrence, recognition and explanation of illness amongst the Gnau makes use of its author's dual training in medicine and anthropology to show why, and in what respects these people of a forest village turn to their religious and magical knowledge in the distress of illness.