San Readings

John Borneman Caring for and Being Cared for: Displacing marriage, kinship, gender and sexuality from The Ethics of Kinship

Janet Carsten The substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth: Feeding, personhood, relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi (1995)

Katherine Charsley Unhappy Husbands: Masculinity and migration in transnational Pakistani marriages

Joel Robbins

Rethinking Gifts and Commodities: Reciprocity, recognition, and the morality of exchange

Becoming Sinners

Clifford Geertz The Interpretation of Cultures

Helena Ragone Chasing the Blood Tie: Surrogate mothers, adoptive mothers and fathers (1996)

Marshall Sahlins

the one about not eating dogs and incest

Poor Man, Rich Man, Big Man, Chief: Political types in Melanesia and Polynesia (1963)

Sian Lazar 'This is Not a Parade, Its a Protest March: Intertextuality, citation and political action on the streets of Bolivia and Argentina

Holly Wardlow Wayward Women: Sexuality and agency in a New Guinea Society

Rupert Stasch Korowai Treehouses and the everyday representation of time, belonging and death

Franz Boas The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology (1896)

E.E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropology: past and present, the Marett Lecture (1950)

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown On Social Structure (1940)

Lila Abu-Lughod

The Romance of Resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women (1990)

Luke Freeman Why are Some People Powerful (2007)

Keith H. Basso Portraits of 'the Whiteman': Linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache

Daniel Miller Appropriating the State on the Council Estate (1988)

J. Hill Covert Racist Discourse: Metaphors, mocking, and the racialization of historically Spanish-speaking populations in the United States (2008)