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1st Edition

The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology

Edited By James G. Carrier, Deborah B. Gewertz Copyright 2013
658 Pages
by Routledge

658 Pages
by Routledge

658 Pages
by Routledge
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he Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology presents a state of the art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and future. It will provide the ultimate source of authoritative, critical descriptions of all the key aspects of the discipline as well as a consideration of the general state of the discipline at a time when there is notable uncertainty about its... Read more
General IntroductionPART 1: ORIENTATIONSIntroduction1. Culture2. Power 3. Postmodernism4. Political economy5. MethodologyPART 2: ELEMENTSIntroduction6. Kinship7. Economy8. Politics9. Religion10. ExchangePART 3: ISSUESIntroduction11. Gender12. Development13. Ethnicity14. Migration15. Consumption16. Environment17. Globalisation18. Material Culture and ArtPART 4: REGIONSIntroduction19. Melanesia20. Africa21. Post-Socialist societies22. South Asia23. Amazonia24. The WestPART 5: CONTEXTIntroduction25. Research funding26. Enrolment and employment27. Applied & public anthropology28. Related disciplines29. EthicsBibliographyIndex

Biography

James G. Carrier is Hon. Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University, UK and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana, USA . He is editor of Meanings of the Market (1997), and co-editor with Daniel Miller of Virtualism (1998).Deborah B. Gewertz is G. Henry Whitcomb Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College, USA.

This book warrants praise from the outset as the gargantuan task it represents does exactly what it sets out to do making it both a pleasure to peruse but also a vitally important and erudite addition to an anthropologist’s library... The terrain covered in this handbook is considerable, from chapters discussing Amazonia to South Asia, environment to sexuality, border politics to methodologies... A dialogue by the discipline with the discipline and one worth engaging. - LSE Review of Books - James Cuffe, University College Cork
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