Brian Morris undifferentiated
Biographic Data
| ID | 9307263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Morris undifferentiated |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian Morris |
| FAMILY NAME | undifferentiated |
| SIGNATURE | UNDIFFERENTIATED B M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography
The Power of Animals: An Ethnography
The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and often overlook the vast number of roles that they may play within a culture and in social life more generally: their use in medicine, folk traditions and rituals. This comprehensive and very readable study focuses on Malawi people and their rich and varied relationship…
Insects and Human Life
This pioneering book looks at the importance of insects to culture. While in the developed West a good deal of time and money may be spent trying to exterminate insects, in other cultures human-insect relations can be far more subtle and multi-faceted. Like animals, insects may be revered or reviled - and in some tribal communities insects may be the only source of food available. How people respond to, make use of, and relate to insects speaks v…
Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and the State: Three Essays
An Environmental History of Southern Malawi: Land and People of the Shire Highlands
Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction
This important textbook provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion, focusing on more recent classical ethnographies. Comprehensive, free of scholastic jargon, engaging, and comparative in approach, it covers all the major religious traditions that have been studied concretely by anthropologists - Shamanism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and its relation to African and Melanesian religions and contemporary Ne…
Who Decides What: The Citizen's Handbook
The Power of Animals: An Ethnography
The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and often overlook the vast number of roles that they may play within a culture and in social life more generally: their use in medicine, folk traditions and rituals. This comprehensive and very readable study focuses on Malawi people and their rich and varied relationship…
Who Decides What: The Citizen's Handbook
Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction
This important textbook provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion, focusing on more recent classical ethnographies. Comprehensive, free of scholastic jargon, engaging, and comparative in approach, it covers all the major religious traditions that have been studied concretely by anthropologists - Shamanism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and its relation to African and Melanesian religions and contemporary Ne…
An Environmental History of Southern Malawi: Land and People of the Shire Highlands
Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and the State: Three Essays
Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography
The Power of Animals: An Ethnography
The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and often overlook the vast number of roles that they may play within a culture and in social life more generally: their use in medicine, folk traditions and rituals. This comprehensive and very readable study focuses on Malawi people and their rich and varied relationship…
Insects and Human Life
This pioneering book looks at the importance of insects to culture. While in the developed West a good deal of time and money may be spent trying to exterminate insects, in other cultures human-insect relations can be far more subtle and multi-faceted. Like animals, insects may be revered or reviled - and in some tribal communities insects may be the only source of food available. How people respond to, make use of, and relate to insects speaks v…
Anthropology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · History (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social anthropology (2 works)