Der Übergang von der Mündlichkeit zur Schriftlichkeit und die Ablösung verschiedener Schriftsyste...

Die zentrale Frage dieses Buches: wie kam es, daß sich etwa ab 300 nach Christus bestimmte allgem...

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and...

This book is an attempt to see the development of domestic institutions, the family, marriage, co...

In this book, the author provides a detailed analysis of kinship, household and family relations ...

This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europ...

Both biologists and social scientists have much to say about human behaviour. Yet attempts to com...

Defining lies as statements that are intended to deceive, this book considers the contexts in whi...

Emrys Peters studied the Bedouin of Libya for more than thirty years. The handful of articles pub...

This 1979 text addresses the strong criticism of dominant theories in large areas of Western soci...

Social scientists, when making their studies of the structure of family groups, have often observ...

In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly i...