Adam Kuper

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Adam Kuper is affiliated with the following schools: London School of Economics, Brunel University London, University College London, Makerere University, University of the Witwatersrand, Leiden University, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Adam Jonathan Kuper is a South African anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology. In his works, he often treats the notion of "culture" skeptically, focusing as much on how it is used as on what it means.

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The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion (1988) (400)
Culture: The Anthropologists' Account (2001) (390)
The Social Science Encyclopedia (1986) (292)
Anthropology and anthropologists : the modern British school (1983) (263)
Wives for Cattle: Bridewealth and Marriage in Southern Africa (1983) (255)
The Bantu-Speaking Peoples of Southern Africa (1975) (206)
The return of the native. Commentaries. Author's reply (2003) (193)
LINEAGE THEORY: A CRITICAL RETROSPECT (1982) (184)
Strategy for Development (1977) (181)
The dictionary of anthropology (1998) (180)
Anthropologists and anthropology: The British school, 1922-1972 (1973) (125)
Only connect (1994) (124)
The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth (2005) (114)
Symbolic dimensions of the Southern Bantu homestead (1980) (99)
Culture, identity and the project of a cosmopolitan anthropology (1994) (93)
Affinity as a Value: Marriage Alliance in South India, with Comparative Essays on Australia. (1984) (72)
Lithoko: Sotho Praise Poems (1974) (55)
Rainmaking Rites of Tswana Tribes (1971) (50)
The man and the myth (1990) (49)
If memes are the answer, what is the question? (2001) (49)
The Concept of Indigeneity (2006) (47)
CA ✩ FORUM ON ANTHROPOLOGY IN PUBLIC The Return of the Native 1 by (2003) (45)
NATIONALIST HISTORIANS IN SEARCH OF A NATION THE ‘NEW HISTORIOGRAPHY’ IN DAR ES SALAAM (1970) (42)
The ‘House’ and Zulu Political Structure in the Nineteenth Century (1993) (41)
Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa (1977) (39)
Take out Hunger: Two Case Studies of Rural Development in Basutoland (1970) (38)
The social structure of the Sotho-speaking peoples of Southern Africa (1975) (37)
Kalahari Village Politics: An African Democracy (1972) (36)
The social anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown (1977) (35)
Anthropology and anthropologists (1983) (35)
Among the Anthropologists: History and Context in Anthropology (1999) (34)
Anthropologists unite! (2011) (32)
The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformation of an Illusion. (1990) (31)
Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England (2009) (30)
Incest, cousin marriage, and the origin of the human sciences in nineteenth-century England. (2002) (29)
South Africa and the Anthropologist (1988) (28)
REGIONAL COMPARISON IN AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGY (1979) (27)
The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity (1994) (25)
W.H.R. Rivers (1979) (24)
Gluckman's Village Headman (1970) (24)
A Structural Approach to Dreams (1979) (23)
Changing the subject: about cousin marriage, among other things (Huxley Lecture, Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 Dec 2007) (2008) (23)
Kgalagari masters and Bushman serfs: some observations (1966) (22)
The Anthropologists' Account (2000) (22)
Command or Consensus: the development of Transkeian local government (1977) (21)
Post‐modernism, Cambridge and the great Kalahari debate (2007) (20)
Indigenous people: an unhealthy category (2005) (19)
Who Should Know What? Social Science, Privacy and Ethics (1983) (19)
Social Anthropology and the ‘Bantu Expansion’ (1978) (17)
The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine: The rise and fall of Maine's patriarchal society (1991) (17)
Alternative histories of British social anthropology (2005) (17)
Tribal Innovators: Tswana Chiefs and Social Change 1795–1940 . By I. Schapera. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 43. London: Athlone Press, 1970. Pp. x+278, bibl., ill. £3.00. (1971) (16)
Psychology and anthropology: the British experience (1990) (15)
Coming of age in anthropology? (1989) (14)
Politics in Leadership: A Comparative Perspective (1979) (14)
The Kgalagara and Jural Consequences of Marriage (1970) (13)
Traditions of kinship, marriage and bridewealth in southern Africa (2016) (12)
Fieldwork and footnotes: Studies in the history of European anthropology (1997) (12)
Mind in the heart of darkness: value and self-identity among the Tawana of Southern Africa (1979) (12)
The dream of Irma's injection: a structural analysis. (1982) (12)
Durkheim's Theory of Primitive Kinship (1985) (12)
Rank and Preferential Marriage in Southern Africa: The Swazi (1978) (11)
An Interview with Edmund Leach (1986) (11)
Anthropologists and the History of Anthropology (1991) (10)
Family, Fertility, and Economics [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (10)
Bridewealth and marriage in southern africa (1982) (10)
Divided Community: A Study of Social Groups and Racial Attitudes in a South African Town. (1972) (10)
After the two cultures (1989) (9)
The Bambi syndrome (1993) (9)
Western Coloured Township: Problems of an urban slum (1976) (9)
Lexical Reconstruction: The Case of the Proto-Athapaskan Kinship System (2010) (9)
Inequality: Social Stratification Reconsidered (1975) (8)
The anthropologist's vocation in South Africa (1986) (8)
South African Anthropology: An Inside Job (1999) (8)
The Kgalagadi in the Nineteenth Century (1969) (8)
‘‘Today We Have Naming of Parts’’: The Work of Anthropologists in Southern Africa (2020) (8)
Radcliffe-Brown, Junod and the Mother's Brother in South Africa (1976) (8)
Fourie and the Southern Transvaal Ndebele (1978) (8)
Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork. (1984) (8)
Radcliffe-Brown And Rivers: a correspondence (1988) (8)
What Really Happened to Kinship and Kinship Studies (2003) (7)
THE ‘NEW HISTORIOGRAPHY’ IN DAR ES SALAAM: A REJOINDER (1971) (7)
Culture Area or Political System? (1976) (7)
Fraternity and endogamy. The House of Rothschild (2001) (7)
Patrick McAllister (ed.), Culture and the Commonplace: anthropological essays in honour of David Hammond-Tooke . Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1997, 400 pp., ISBN 0 521 59370 0. (1999) (7)
The academic frontier: History and social anthropology in South Africa (1997) (7)
Isaac Schapera – a conversation (Part 1: South African beginnings) (2001) (7)
Commentary: a Darwin family concern. (2009) (6)
Determinants of Form in Seven Tswana Kinship Terminologies (1978) (5)
Zulu Kinship Terminology over a Century (1979) (5)
The structure of dream sequences (1983) (5)
Anthropology: Scope of the Discipline (2017) (5)
Envisioning power. Ideologies of dominance and crisis . By Eric R. Wolf. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. 310 pp. Pb.: $ 15.16. ISBN 052 0215 826. - (2001) (4)
The Man in the Study and the Man in the Field Ethnography theory and comparison in social anthropology (1980) (4)
How Peculiar are the Venda (1979) (4)
The work of customary courts: some facts and speculations (1969) (4)
Comparison and contextualization: reflection on South Africa (2002) (4)
the historians' revenge (1985) (3)
Book Review: Africa: Afrikaner and African Nationalism: South African Parallels and Parameters (1968) (3)
Racial science (1993) (3)
The Kinship Factor in Ngologa Politics (1969) (3)
The Mind of Lewis H. Morgan [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (3)
Machiavelli in precolonial Southern Africa (2007) (3)
Among the anthropologists (1999) (3)
Letter to Lévi-Strauss (2013) (3)
Ancestors: Henry Maine and the constitution of primitive society (1985) (3)
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE (2016) (3)
Change of Life at the ASA (1983) (2)
Rainmaking Rites of Tswana Tribes. By I. Schapera. Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum; Cambridge: African Studies Centre, 1971. Pp. 144, bibl., ill., maps. £1·25. (1972) (2)
Isaac Schapera (1905–2003): his life and times (2007) (2)
Reply to Moore (2007) (2)
Meyer Fortes: The Person, the Role, the Theory (2016) (2)
A philosopher among the Crow (2008) (2)
THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ANTHROPOLOGY (2010) (2)
Science and Native Problems: How to Understand the Bantu (1986) (2)
Aspects of administration in Western Botswana (1970) (2)
Genetic prison population (2003) (1)
Social Anthropology and Law (1978) (1)
The bell curve revisited (1994) (1)
The History of the Social Sciences Since 1945: Social Anthropology (2010) (1)
The New Men and the Universities in East Africa (2009) (1)
The social structure of the Sotho-speaking peoples of Southern Africa (1975) (1)
Deconstructing anthropology: First Annual Stephen F. Gudeman Lecture (2019) (1)
Botswana: resources and development (1972) (1)
e-Publishing in the humanities and social sciences (2006) (1)
O filósofo e os Crow (2008) (1)
African-Omaha: a review article (1982) (1)
Afterword: the usual suspects (2001) (1)
Isaac Schapera — a conversation Part 2: The London years (2002) (1)
Special section: Three lectures on the future of anthropology in Europe* (2007) (1)
A Watershed in South African Precolonial Studies (1997) (1)
Sir Henry Maine: A Study in Victorian Jurisprudence. (1989) (1)
Comparison and contextualization (2002) (1)
White Farmers and Black Labour-tenants: a Study of a Farming Community in the South African Province of Natal. By J. B. Loudon. Cambridge: African Studies Centre (Afr. Soc. Res. Docum., 1), 1970. Pp. 135, bibl. £1·25. (1972) (1)
Nationalist Historians in Search of a Nation (2019) (1)
The Matabele Journals of Robert Moffat. 1829–1860 . Edited by J. P. R. Wallis. Salisbury: National Archives of Rhodesia, 1976. 2 vols. Pp. xv, 382; 295, ill., maps. Rh.$16.50 (hard); Rh.$12.00 (paperback). (1978) (0)
社会科学百科全书 = THE SOCIAL SCIEN ENEYCLO PEDIA (1989) (0)
Darwin and Cousin Marriage in England (2017) (0)
Anthropological imperialism (1995) (0)
Transforming Kinship in Kashgar (2018) (0)
7. The Bourgeois Intellectuals (2009) (0)
Back Matter (1996) (0)
[Book review]: A philosopher among the Crow (2008) (0)
KINSHIP: SOME RECENT BOOKS ROBERTPARKIN (2013) (0)
Savage reversals (1998) (0)
Lévi-Strauss comes to Africa, speaking English (1970) (0)
Africa . Edited by Phyllis M. Martin and Patrick O'Meara. Bloomington, London: Indiana University Press, 1977. Pp. xxii, 482, ill., figs., maps, bibl. $20. (1979) (0)
Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa . By Robert Ross. Cambridge: University Press, 1976. Pp. xiii, 194, table, maps, bibl. £5·75. (1978) (0)
RECENT WRITING ON SOUTHERN AFRICA (1974) (0)
Drs. Stone and Kuper Reply (1983) (0)
The Bushmen as underclass (1994) (0)
Cousin Marriage Among the Thembu? A Research Problem (1981) (0)
Great Britain: Functionalism at home. A question of theory (1980) (0)
Obituary: Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) (2009) (0)
For Men and Elders: Change in the Relations of Generations and of Men and Women among the Nyakyusa-Ngonde People 1875–1971 (1978) (0)
3. The Science of Incest and Heredity (2009) (0)
Documenting the Great Kalahari Debate (1993) (0)
1. The Romance of Incest and the Love of Cousins (2009) (0)
5. Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect (2009) (0)
Reviews of Books (1989) (0)
The Western front (1998) (0)
Reviews of Books (1989) (0)
Lithoko: Sotho Praise Poems . By M. Damane and P. B. Sanders. The Oxford Library of African Literature. 1974. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Pp. 289. £6·50. (1976) (0)
Civilization, Culture, and Race: Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century (2019) (0)
The death of Piet Retief (2007) (0)
A question of culture? Europe and Islam (2005) (0)
An end and a beginning (2014) (0)
CA✩ FORUM ON ANTHROPOLOGY IN PUBLIC (2003) (0)
A. Barnard, Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa. A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples (1993) (0)
Prologue: Darwin’s Marriage (2009) (0)
Gordon D. Gibson, Thomas J. Larson, Cecilia R. McGurk, The Kavango Peoples, Studien zur Kulturkunde 56, Wiesbadan: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1981, 284 pp. (1983) (0)
Take out Hunger: Two Case Studies of Rural Development in Basutoland. By Sandra Wallman. L.S.E.Monographs No. 39. London: Athlone Press, 1969. Pp. xii + 178, bibl., map. £1.80. (1971) (0)
8. The Bloomsbury Version (2009) (0)
1 The Durkheimian Tradition : Radcliffe-Brown ’ s ‘ Conversion ’ (2006) (0)
Custom and Government in the Lower Congo. By Wyatt MacGaffey. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1970. Pp. xv + 321, bibl., ill., maps. £4·75. (1972) (0)
Anthropologists And the BiBle (2016) (0)
Marett Memorial Lecture 2012: Anthropologists and the Bible (2012) (0)
Culture and identity politics (2006) (0)
Road rage and obesity (2003) (0)
Ethnology: Content and Context of Zulu Folk-Narratives. Brian M. du Toit (1978) (0)
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, networks, and the making of culturalknowledge in Central Africa, by Lyn Schumaker. Durham, NC and London: Duke UniversityPress, 2001. xii + 376 pp. $19.95 paperback. ISBN 0‐8223‐2673‐6(paperback) (2003) (0)
Philosopher among the Indians (2016) (0)
Coda: The End of the Line (2009) (0)
Diamond, Jared. The world until yesterday: what can we learn from traditional societies? 512 pp., maps, figs, bibliogr. London: Allen Lane, 2012. £20.00 (cloth) (2013) (0)
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009): Obituary (2009) (0)
Reply to Tooker (1993) (0)
The Anthony Wilkin Student's Proposed Expedition To Western Australia, 1909–1910 (1986) (0)
Politics in leadership: a comparative perspective. Ed. William A. Shack and Percy S. Cohen. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1979. xxi, 296p., bibl., £10.00 (1981) (0)
6. Difficulties with Siblings (2009) (0)
Seminar SAW Rethinking Practice and Culture in the History of Science (2016) (0)
Medical anthropology (1978) (0)
A Note on Ruling Generations and Historical Time in Botswana (1971) (0)
2. The Law of Incest (2009) (0)
4. The Family Business (2009) (0)
Of rats and psychology students (1999) (0)
Critical applied anthropology: Urban unemployment and rural productivity in Jamaica* (1974) (0)
Book Review:Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers. Richard B. Lee, Irven DeVore (1977) (0)
Isaac Schapera, 1905-2003 (2005) (0)
Crab Antics: The Social Anthropology of the English-Speaking Negro Societies of the Caribbean (1974) (0)

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