ABSTRACT

Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field.

Now fully updated, this third edition includes entries on:

  • Material Culture
  • Environment
  • Human Rights
  • Hybridity
  • Alterity
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Ethnography
  • Applied Anthropology
  • Gender
  • Cybernetics

With full cross-referencing and revised further reading to point students towards the latest writings in Social and Cultural Anthropology, this is a superb reference resource for anyone studying or teaching in this area.

part |461 pages

Agent and Agency

chapter |9 pages

Agent and Agency

chapter |9 pages

Alterity

chapter |6 pages

Applied Anthropology

chapter |12 pages

Auto-Anthropology

chapter |10 pages

Body

chapter |6 pages

Children

chapter |9 pages

Classification

chapter |12 pages

Code

chapter |8 pages

Cognition

chapter |4 pages

Common Sense

chapter |6 pages

Community

chapter |16 pages

Consciousness

chapter |10 pages

Contradiction

chapter |4 pages

Conversation

chapter |11 pages

Cosmopolitanism

chapter |11 pages

Culture

chapter |14 pages

Cybernetics

chapter |10 pages

Discourse

chapter |11 pages

Environment

chapter |6 pages

Epistemological Pluralism

chapter |8 pages

Ethnomethodology

chapter |4 pages

Feminism

chapter |12 pages

Fieldwork

chapter |6 pages

Form and Content

chapter |12 pages

Gender

chapter |9 pages

Home and Homelessness

chapter |11 pages

Human Rights

chapter |8 pages

Humanism

chapter |10 pages

Hybridity

chapter |9 pages

Individualism

chapter |6 pages

Interpretation

chapter |13 pages

Kinship

chapter |8 pages

Liminality

chapter |10 pages

Literariness

chapter |9 pages

Materiality

chapter |10 pages

Movement

chapter |13 pages

Myth

chapter |9 pages

Narrative

chapter |4 pages

Network

chapter |13 pages

Ontology

chapter |10 pages

Post-Modernism

chapter |9 pages

Power

chapter |7 pages

Reflexivity

chapter |8 pages

Rural Idyll

chapter |12 pages

Science

chapter |12 pages

Social Interaction

chapter |12 pages

Society

chapter |7 pages

State

chapter |6 pages

Time

chapter |9 pages

Tourism

chapter |7 pages

Urbanism

chapter |8 pages

Violence

chapter |6 pages

Visuality

chapter |11 pages

World-View

chapter |7 pages

Writing