The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE Introduction PART I: ORIENTATIONS Orientations in Anthropology 1 Culture 2 Power 3 Postmodernism 4 Political Economy 5 Methodology PART II: ELEMENTS Elements: Assessing the Historical Core of Anthropology 6 The Anthropology of Kinship: The Kinship of Anthropology 7 Economy 8 Border Politics 9 Anthropology of Religion: The Return of the Repressed? 10 Exchange PART III: ISSUES Issues in Sociocultural Anthropology since the Sixties 11 Gender and Sexuality 12 Development 13 Ethnicity: From Boundaries to Frontiers 14 The Anthropology of Migration 15 Consumption: From Cultural Theory to the Ethnography of Capitalism 16 Environment 17 Globalization in Anthropology 18 Material Culture: Ancestries and Trajectories in Material Culture Studies PART IV: REGIONS Regions in Anthropology 19 Postcolonial Societies: Melanesia 20 Africanist Anthropology 21 Postsocialist Societies: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union 22 South Asia and the Stakes of Social Theory 23 Amazonia 24 Critical Anthropologies of the United States 25 Europe PART V: CONTEXT Contexts and Consequences in Anthropology 26 Short-haired Women and Long-haired Men: Funding Research in Sociocultural Anthropology 27 Applied and Public Anthropology in the United States and the United Kingdom 28 Related Disciplines 29 Ethics: Practices, Principles, and Comparative Perspectives INDEX