Discusses the significance of totemism among primitive peoples and its interpretation by anthropologists and philosophies.

"The best study of our times that I know. . . . Of all the books that I have read in the last 20 years, it is by far the one that has taught me the most."--Le Figaro Future Shock is about the present.

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The book is beleived to have been intended to portray conditions at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, but Capellanus wrote it most likely several years later."--Back cover.

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume, the first comprehensive English language translation of Maurice Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge.

"The contemporary benchmark from which to look back and look forward in the continuing inquiry about American character.

This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others.

"Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally admired scholar, aims in this book to salvage the good name of the Enlightenment so that its ideas can once more inspire humane thought and action.