This study, a history of the kind of people who are supposed to have one, challenges the fashionable view that so-called primitives live in a timeless present.
An ethnographic interpretation of the life of the Ilongots, a group of 3,500 hunters and horticulturists in Northern Luzon, Philippines, analyzes their social l
Exposing the inadequacies of old conceptions of static cultures and detached observers, the book argues instead for social science to acknowledge and celebrate
This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just th
This book brings together material on headhunting from several Southeast Asia societies, examines its cultural contexts, and relates them to colonial history, v