The account of the author's life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the ...

Through the concept of "social navigation," this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in West Africa. Social navigation offers a perspective ...

In Theses on Feuerbach , Marx writes, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is to change it." This collection examines ...

Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, was one of the most important figures in post-war French anthropology. He is well-known for his early work on India ...

Western societies draw crucially on concepts of the 'individual' in constructing their images of the ethnic group and nation and define these in terms ...

Although modernity's understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both ...

How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946 ...

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short-lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related ...

In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist ...

Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a 'modern' identity. These young men and women see ...