Adam Kuper

Adam Kuper, whose most recent book is The Reinvention of Primitive Society, is a professor of anthropology at Brunel University.

In the LRB Archive:

• Putting things in boxes: Margaret Mead · 24 May 2007

  • To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead edited by Margaret Caffrey and Patricia Francis

• Like Cutting a Cow: ritual killings in southern Africa · 6 July 2006

  • Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis by Colin Murray and Peter Sanders

• Clueless: police rituals · 21 April 2005

• Off the Verandah: Malinowski’s Papuan peregrinations · 7 October 2004

  • Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist 1884-1920 by Michael Young

• Men’s Work: Lévi-Strauss · 24 June 2004

  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Formative Years by Christopher Johnson

• Man Who Burned: James Brooke · 12 December 2002

  • White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke by Nigel Barley

• Clever, or even Clever-Clever: Edmund Leach · 23 May 2002

  • Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life by Stanley Tambiah
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. I: Anthropology and Society by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. II: Culture and Human Nature by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw

• Some Flim-Flam with Socks on Laurens van der Post · 3 January 2002

  • Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post by J.D.F. Jones

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