This comprehensive survey of contemporary thought in biological, social and cultural
anthropology sets the foundation for their future development and integration. The principal …

Collective action theory, as formulated in the social sciences, posits rational social actors
who regularly assess the actions of others to inform their own decisions to cooperate. In …

" The authors combine an excellent state-of-the-art review of the literature in world-systems
analysis with a vigorous presentation of their own quite coherent views. This book is a major …

The societies of the European Bronze Age produced elaborate artifacts and were drawn into
a wide trade network extending over the whole of Europe, even though they were …

The concept of ideology has figured centrally in recent accounts of the fundamental social
transformation sweeping Europe from the mid-fifth to second millennia BC. In particular …

The use of world-systems theory to explain the spread of social complexity has become
accepted practice by both historians and archaeologists. Gil Stein now offers the first …

An up-to-date and critical analysis of how archaeologists study past societies, Archaeologies
of Complexity addresses the nature of contemporary archaeology and the study of social …

With these words Michel Foucault opened his famous study of sexual identity based on the
memoirs of Herculine Barbin (Foucault 1980), also known as Alexina, Camille, and Abel. It is …

This paper proposes that social identities can be studied through the cultural construction of
appearance, since this is a powerful visual mediation of identities and is a component in the …

In the history of the human species, there is no more significant transition than the
emergence and institutionalization of inequality. Yet strangely, until recently, this critical …