Marilyn Strathern 
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected [PDF ebook] 
Relatives are Always a Surprise

This new study delivers a detailed analysis of the efforts being made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. After an initial discussion of the ”southern model’ …

This book presents a set of conversations with five former Governors of Reserve Bank of India (from 1992 onwards) on the topic of financial inclusion. Two key aspects are introduced in the conversati …

What is imprinting and what role does it play in the early development of the individual? What is its theoretical importance for understanding the mechanisms of instinct and learning? What is its sig …

With the discovery of conditioned reflexes by I. P. Pavlov, the possibilities for experimenting, following the example set by the classical, exact sciences, were made available to the behavioral scie …

This is Volume IV in a series of twenty-two on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1947, in this study is an attempt to sum up the lessons offered by co-operative communities of …

First published in 1997 , Dorothy Atkinson collects testimonies of the personal perspectives of people with learning disability in order to rediscover the histories of people with learning disabiliti …

This book demonstrates that mobility in Europe is not a synonym for European mobility, showing how certain mobile individuals are more likely to develop an explicitly European identity than others. T …

Violence directed at victimized groups because of their real or imagined characteristics is as old as humankind. Why, then, have ‘hate crimes’ only recently become recog-nized as a serious social pro …