ABSTRACT

This is the only encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology to cover fully the many important areas of overlap between anthropology and related disciplines. This work also covers key terms, ideas and people, thus eliminating the need to refer to other books for specific definitions or biographies.
Special features include:
* over 230 substantial entries on every major idea, individual and sub-discipline of social and cultural anthropology
* over 100 international contributors
* a glossary of more than 600 key terms and ideas.

chapter |4 pages

The structural study of symbolism

chapter |4 pages

adoption and fostering

chapter |2 pages

Early ethnography

chapter |6 pages

Religions and philosophy

chapter |5 pages

Studies of Bantu-speaking peoples

chapter |10 pages

Africa: West

chapter |1 pages

Other models

chapter |5 pages

alliance

chapter |1 pages

Continuities in the American tradition

chapter |1 pages

Disciplinary history

chapter |5 pages

Americas: Central

chapter |6 pages

Americas: Latin America

chapter |13 pages

Anthropogenecism

chapter |7 pages

Arctic

chapter |1 pages

The challenge of the region

chapter |5 pages

Asia: South

chapter |10 pages

Techno-economic adaptations

chapter |3 pages

biological anthropology

chapter |2 pages

Human genetics

chapter |17 pages

Human ecology

chapter |2 pages

cannibalism

chapter |5 pages

capitalism

chapter |2 pages

Caribbean

chapter |5 pages

Postwar developments

chapter |3 pages

cattle complex

chapter |14 pages

Passive object or active subject?

chapter |11 pages

classification

chapter |7 pages

Universals and innate knowledge

chapter |8 pages

community

chapter |3 pages

Methods of comparison

chapter |3 pages

complementary filiation

chapter |9 pages

Regions, nations and globalization

chapter |4 pages

cosmology

chapter |6 pages

Crow-Omaha systems

chapter |1 pages

culture

chapter |3 pages

Prehistory: from Herder to Boas

chapter |7 pages

After Boas

chapter |2 pages

culture and personality

chapter |5 pages

Untenable assumptions

chapter |22 pages

Methods to discover meaning

chapter |4 pages

discourse

chapter |7 pages

dreams

chapter |3 pages

Fieldwork

chapter |1 pages

The market ideal

chapter |2 pages

Locality

chapter |2 pages

Uncertainty, rationality and pragmatism

chapter |1 pages

Models, markets and communities

chapter |1 pages

education

chapter |2 pages

Practical mastery and formal learning

chapter |2 pages

Education and power

chapter |1 pages

environment Meanings

chapter |4 pages

Materialism, idealism, and holism

chapter |5 pages

essentialism

chapter |3 pages

Constructivist theories

chapter |3 pages

ethnopsychiatry Origins and history

chapter |5 pages

The mechanism of psychological healing

chapter |5 pages

Ethnicity and nationalism

chapter |1 pages

Europe: North

chapter |4 pages

The anthropology of Northern Europe

chapter |5 pages

The Mediterranean as a culture area

chapter |4 pages

Anti-evolutionist interlude

chapter |5 pages

Why evolution?

chapter |14 pages

Exchange and economy

chapter |8 pages

fieldwork

chapter |9 pages

fishing

chapter |4 pages

formalism and substantivism

chapter |4 pages

The development of field research

chapter |26 pages

functionalism

chapter |5 pages

ghost dance

chapter |5 pages

Gypsies

chapter |2 pages

Converging disciplines

chapter |21 pages

Structural history

chapter |2 pages

Social structure and ideology

chapter |15 pages

identity

chapter |14 pages

inequality

chapter |2 pages

Kinship and biology

chapter |1 pages

Unilineal descent

chapter |2 pages

Groups and categories

chapter |6 pages

Asymmetric exchange

chapter |3 pages

kula

chapter |6 pages

land tenure

chapter |1 pages

Anthropologists versus linguists

chapter |7 pages

Language in context

chapter |2 pages

Anthropological jurisprudence

chapter |2 pages

Legal pluralism

chapter |3 pages

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

chapter |6 pages

Beyond explanation

chapter |2 pages

mana

chapter |13 pages

Formal models

chapter |9 pages

The printed media

chapter |4 pages

memory

chapter |11 pages

Some exemplary methods

chapter |8 pages

millennial movements, millenarianism

chapter |1 pages

The modern and the modernizing

chapter |1 pages

Modernism

chapter |1 pages

Modernity

chapter |3 pages

money

chapter |2 pages

Morgan, Lewis Henry

chapter |13 pages

museums

chapter |4 pages

nationalism

chapter |22 pages

Culture

chapter |1 pages

African models of social structure

chapter |14 pages

Religion

chapter |5 pages

person

chapter |2 pages

pilgrimage

chapter |2 pages

play

chapter |7 pages

plural society

chapter |20 pages

The ‘clash of cultures’

chapter |4 pages

The literature

chapter |4 pages

power

chapter |4 pages

preference and prescription

chapter |2 pages

primitive mentality

chapter |2 pages

property

chapter |3 pages

psychoanalysis

chapter |3 pages

psychological anthropology

chapter |10 pages

Re-defining mind

chapter |32 pages

rationality

chapter |16 pages

resistance

chapter |9 pages

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

chapter |4 pages

Shamanism and postmodernism

chapter |20 pages

slavery

chapter |9 pages

sociobiology Evolutionary origins

chapter |1 pages

State formation

chapter |2 pages

Beyond the search for origins

chapter |2 pages

structuralism

chapter |7 pages

Intellectual structures

chapter |1 pages

Decoding symbols

chapter |4 pages

Core symbols and cultural systems

chapter |6 pages

syncretism

chapter |16 pages

technology Techniques and representations

chapter |1 pages

Lineages of urban anthropology

chapter |3 pages

Theoretical accomplishments

chapter |8 pages

violence

chapter |5 pages

work

chapter |38 pages

Biographical appendix

Adam, Leonhard

chapter |47 pages

Glossary

chapter |38 pages

Name index

chapter |13 pages

Peoples and places index

chapter |27 pages

Subject index