business, and kinship. Retirement dispute In January 2009 it was revealed that Brunel had reneged on an agreement to let him stay until 2010. Instead, he was forcibly retired in late 2008, just after the census date for publications submitted to the Research Assessment Exercise had passed. Kuper responded by suing the university for breach of contract. In 2011, employment laws were changed to permit phased retirements past the age of 65. This was because of changes to the 2006 Employment (Age) Regulations making mandatory retirement imposed by the employer unlawful. Selected publications Wives for Cattle: Bridewealth and Marriage in Southern Africa, (Routledge, 1982) The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion, (Routledge, 1988) The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity, (Harvard University Press, 1994) Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School, (Routledge, 3rd edn, 1996) The Social Science Encyclopaedia Adam Kuper, Jessica Kuper (eds.). (Taylor & Francis, 1996) Culture: The Anthropologists' Account, (Harvard University Press, 1999) Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England, (Harvard, 2009, ) Further reading References 1941 births Living people Anthropology educators Anthropology writers Social anthropologists South African anthropologists South African science writers Academics of Brunel University London Academic staff of Leiden University Academics of University College London People from Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand alumni Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Alumni of Parktown Boys' High School