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Recommend a book on tribes from around the world

ElleEm · 2011-02-28 17:05:13

I love watching programmes on tribes, particularly Human Planet at the minute. I would love to learn more about different tribes from around the world so does anyone have any reading recommendations?

28-02-2011 6:05pm

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I love watching programmes on tribes, particularly Human Planet at the minute. I would love to learn more about different tribes from around the world so does anyone have any reading recommendations?

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Depends on what you're looking for, this is usually used as a textbook on introductory social anthropology courses;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Places-Large-Issues-Introduction/dp/0745317723

It discusses core concepts in anthropology chapter by chapter, and gives a decent outline of the disciplines history of thought (i.e. you get a chapter on kinship, class, religion as structures, with reference examples drawn from field studies).

I'm not sure where you might look for more descriptive works - are you thinking more national geographic style journalism?

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