Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael
Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the …

Modernity promised control over nature through science, material abundance through
technology and effective government through rational, social organization. Instead of …

Well-written, broad-gauged, and just plain smart, The Right Kind of Revolution ably
synthesizes, indeed moves beyond, the scholarship on American efforts to'improve'the Third …

In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of
anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of …

" David Harrison writes very well, and presents a good, well-balanced and perceptive
appraisal of current perspectives."--" Times Higher Education Supplement" This title …

But if the designing of the future and the proclamation of ready made solutions for all time is
not our affair, then we realize all the more clearly what we have to accomplish in the present …

Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution
in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in …

This book looks at the multiple relations between the ethnographic representations of the
Montagnard ethnic groups in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and the changing historical …

In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The
Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning achievement of his sociological …

Cladistics, a method used to create a nested series of taxa based on homologous characters
shared only by two or more taxa and their immediate common ancestor, offers a means of …