This is a book about social differentiation and distinction in one of the ethnically and politically most complex regions of the world, dealing with crucial iss

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of br

A small tribe of Neanderthals find themselves at odds with a tribe comprised of homo sapiens, whose superior intelligence and agility threatens their doom.

The text examines the changing historical discourses of social differentiation and distinction in one of the most ethnically and politically complex regions of

Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, w