Second edition, with a new introduction by the authors. The authors are anthropologists who explore Austen's novels through theories of kinship, social organization, and culture. They argue her realism is in fact a form of social analysis. They take the body of Austen's work as ethnography of diverse social realities rathar than praise of a strictly ordered society. Originally published in 1990 and republished in 1999. Reading Austen as anthropologist is just as relevant in the 21st century as it was in the 20th. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1999. Paper. NEW. $37.00