Routledge encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology

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This new edition of the highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology provides a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. Combining anthropological theory and ethnography, it includes substantial entries, short biographies of important figures in anthropology, and glossary items. The new entries reflect major changes in anthropology in the past decade: subdisciplines like medical anthropology have become more central to mainstream work in the discipline; recent work includes issues of gender and sexuality, and anthropology's new ethnographic engagement with the central institutions of modernity like finance and science. Anthropology is now an unequivocally global discipline, so the second edition explores other traditions of anthropological work (Japanese anthropology, Latin American anthropology) as well as the processes of globalization itself. Authoritative entries have been commissioned from among the world's leading anthropologists. Alphabetically organized, the main entries contain clear, concise and provocative explanations of key anthropological themes and ideas, as well as surveys of the most important ethnographic regions and regional traditions of ethnographic research. Each major entry contains cross-references and a list of further reading. Read more... Content: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; EDITORIAL BOARD; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; LIST OF ENTRIES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTIONS BY AUTHOR; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX; GLOSSARY; NAME INDEX; PEOPLES AND PLACES INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX. Introduction -- How to use this book -- List of contributors -- Analytical table of contents -- Contributions by author -- Biographical appendix -- Glossary -- Aboriginal Australia -- Acknowledgements -- Adoption and fostering -- Aesthetics -- Affect -- Africa: East -- Africa: Nilotic -- Africa: Southern -- Africa: West -- Age -- AIDS -- Alliance -- American anthropology -- Americas: Central -- Americas: Latin America -- Americas: Native North America -- Americas: Native South America (Highland) -- Americas: Native South America (Lowland) -- Ancestors -- Anthropological societies -- Archaeology -- Arctic -- Art -- Asia: Central -- Asia: East -- Asia: South -- Asia: Southeast -- Avunculate -- Belief -- Big Man -- Biological anthropology -- Boas, Franz -- Body -- British anthropology -- Buddhism -- Canadian anthropology -- Cannibalism -- Capitalism -- Cargo cult -- Caribbean -- Caste -- Cattle complex -- Children and childhood -- Chinese anthropology -- Christianity -- Citizenship -- Civil society -- Class -- Classical studies -- Classification -- Cognatic society -- Cognition -- Colonialism -- Community -- Compadrazgo -- Comparative method -- Complementary filiation -- Complex society -- Componential analysis -- Conception -- Consumption -- Cosmology -- Cosmopolitanism -- Counterinsurgency -- Crow-Omaha systems -- Cultural materialism -- Cultural studies -- Culture -- Culture and personality -- Dance -- Death -- Dedication -- Descent -- Development -- Diaspora -- Diffusionism -- Discourse -- Divination -- Dreams -- Dual organization -- Dutch anthropology -- Ecological anthropology -- Economic anthropology -- Editorial board -- Education -- Emic and etic -- Emotion -- Engagement -- Enlightenment anthropology -- Environment -- Essentialism -- Ethics, anthropological -- Ethics, anthropology of -- Ethnicity -- Ethnography -- Ethnopsychiatry -- Ethnoscience -- Europe: Central and Eastern -- Europe: Northern -- Europe: Southern -- Evolution and evolutionism -- Exchange -- Factions -- Family -- Fashion -- Feminist anthropology -- Feudalism -- Fieldwork -- Film -- Finance -- Fishing -- Folklore -- Food -- Formalism and substantivism -- French anthropology -- Friendship -- Functionalism -- Gay and lesbian anthropology -- Gender -- Genealogical method -- Genetics, anthropology of -- Genocide -- German and Austrian anthropology -- Ghost dance -- Gossip -- Great and little traditions -- Gypsies -- Hinduism -- History and anthropology -- History of anthropology -- Honour and shame -- House -- Household -- Human rights -- Hunting and gathering societies -- Identity -- Ideology -- Incest -- Indian anthropology -- Indigenous knowledge -- Indigenous peoples -- Individualism -- Inequality -- Islam -- Japan -- Japanese anthropology -- Joking and avoidance -- Kingship -- Kinship -- Kula -- Land tenure -- Landscape -- Language and linguistics -- Latin American anthropology -- Law -- Lèvi-Strauss, Claude -- Literacy -- Literature -- Magic -- Malinowski, Bronislaw -- Mana -- Markets -- Marriage -- Marxism and anthropology -- Mass media -- Material culture -- Medical anthropology -- Memory -- Menstruation -- Methodology -- Middle East and North Africa -- Migration -- Millennial movements, millenarianism -- Missionaries -- Mode of production -- Modernism, modernity and modernization -- Money -- Morgan, Lewis Henry -- Multiculturalism -- Multi-sited ethnography -- Museums -- Music -- Myth and mythology -- Names and naming -- Nationalism -- Nature and culture -- Neoliberalism -- Network analysis -- Nomadism -- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) -- Number -- Nutrition -- Occidentalism -- Oral literature -- Oratory -- Orientalism -- Pacific: Melanesia -- Pacific: Polynesia -- Pastoralists -- Patrons and clients -- Peasants -- Person -- Pharmaceuticals -- Photography -- Pilgrimage -- Place -- Play -- Plural society -- Poetics -- Political anthropology -- Political economy -- Pollution and purity -- Possession -- Postmodernism -- Potlatch -- Power -- Preface to the second edition -- Preference and prescription -- Primitive communism -- Primitive mentality -- Property -- Psychoanalysis -- Psychological anthropology -- Race -- Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. -- Rationality -- Reflexivity -- Refugees -- Regional analysis and regional comparison -- Relatedness -- Relationship terminology -- Relativism -- Religion -- Reproductive technologies -- Resistance -- Rite of passage -- Ritual -- Russian and Soviet anthropology -- Sacred and profane -- Sacrifice -- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- Scandals, anthropological -- Scandinavian anthropology -- Science -- Science and technology studies (STS) -- Settlement patterns -- Sex and sexuality -- Shamanism -- Sharecropping -- Slavery -- Social structure and social organization -- Socialization -- Society -- Sociobiology -- Sociology -- South African anthropology -- Sovereignty -- State -- Structuralism -- Symbolic anthropology -- Syncretism -- Taboo -- Technology -- Text -- Time and space -- Totemism -- Tourism -- Transhumance -- Translation -- Transnationalism -- Urban anthropology -- Violence -- Visual anthropology -- War, warfare -- Well-being and happiness -- Witchcraft and sorcery -- Work -- World system -- Youth. Abstract: An encyclopedia that provides description and analysis of the terms, concepts and issues of social and cultural anthropology. Read more...