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Adam Kuper

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

Selected bibliography

  • The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth (2005)
  • Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account (2000)
  • Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School (1996)
  • The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity (1994)
  • The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion (1988)
  • Wives for Cattle: Bridewealth and Marriage in Southern Africa (1982)
  • Kalahari Village Politics: An African Democracy (1970)

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