Bücher von Robert Launay

Robert Launay is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University . He is the author of Traders Without Trade: Responses to Change in Two Dyula Communities , Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town , which won the Amaury Talbot Prize, and numerous articles on the anthropology of Islam and Muslim societies in West Africa . He has written extensively on both the contemporary and early history of anthropology, and is completing a new book, Savages, Despots, and Romans: The Urge to Compare and the Origins of Anthropology .