AT THE MARGINS OF ACADEMIA

Over the course of a long career as a teacher and researcher Brian Morris has created a substantial body of engaging and insightful writings-from social anthropology and ethnography to politics history and philosophy-that have made these subjects accessible to the layperson without sacrificing analytic rigor. The present book offers a collection of his insightful essays on topics that are usually of marginal interest to academic anthropologists in that they cover such topics as medical herbalism the ethnobiological system of hunter-gatherers and specifically the relationship of folk classification and empirical knowledge to the wider culture and symbolism of both foraging and agrarian societies.