The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology

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Part 1. Orientations. Orientation in anthropology / Gísli Pálsson -- Culture / Elizabeth F. Vann -- Power / Lesley Gill -- Postmodernism / Lamont Lindstrom -- Political economy / Josiah McC. Heyman -- Methodology / Andre Gingrich -- Part 2. Elements. Elements: assessing the historical core of anthropology / Caroline Humphrey -- The anthropology of kinship: the kinship of anthropology / Barbara Bodenhorn -- Economy / Bill Maurer -- Border politics / Barbara Yngvesson -- Anthropology of religion: the return of the repressed? / Simon Coleman -- Exchange / Chris A. Gregory -- Part 3. Issues. Issues in sociocultural anthropology since the sixties / Bruce M. Knauft -- Gender and sexuality / Susan Brownell and Niko Besnier -- Development / Marc Edelman -- Ethnicity: from boundaries to frontiers / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- The anthropology of migration / Katy Gardner -- Consumption: from cultural theory to the ethnography of capitalism / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld -- Environment / Melissa A. Johnson -- Globalization in anthropology / Jonathan Friedman -- Material culture: ancestries and trajectories in material culture studies / Paul Basu -- Part 4. Regions. Regions in anthropology / Jane I. Guyer -- Postcolonial societies: Melanesia / Martha Macintyre -- Africanist anthropology / Dorothea Schulz -- Postsocialist societies: Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / Douglas Rogers and Katherine Verdery -- South Asia and the stakes of social theory / Veena Das -- Amazonia / Beth A. Conklin -- Critical anthropologies of the United States / Jeff Maskovsky -- Europe / Andrés Barrera-González, Melissa L. Caldwell, Monica Heintz, and Anna Horolets -- Part 5. Context. Contexts and consequences in anthropology / Don Brenneis -- Short-haired women and long-haired men: funding research in sociocultural anthropology / Deborah Winslow and Kristin Küyük -- Applied and public anthropology in the United States and the United Kingdom / Jeanne Simonelli and Jonathan Skinner -- Related disciplines / David Mills -- Ethics: practices, principles, and comparative perspectives / Rena Lederman.