Böcker i Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology-serien

An analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all societies and at all times.

How humor is used in religious rituals in three Mayan communities.

The first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.

This revised edition offers an updated appraisal of what neoliberal politics and economics mean in the lives of marketwomen in the nineties, based on new fieldwork conducted in 1997.