The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology

by Carrier, James G.; Gewertz, Deborah B.

• ISBN13: 9781474283465
• ISBN10: 1474283462
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781000181494
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-03-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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 foundations, composition and direction.

Divided into five core sections, the Handbook: examines the changing theoretical and analytical orientations that have led to new ways of carrying out research; presents an analysis of the traditional historical core and how the discipline has changed since 1980; considers the ethnographic regions where work has had the greatest impact on anthropology as a whole; outlines the people and institutions that are the context in which the discipline operates, covering topics from research funding to professional ethics.

Bringing together leading international scholars, the Handbook provides a guide to the latest research in social and cultural anthropology. Presenting a systematic overview - and offering a wide range of examples, insights and analysis - it will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students in anthropology as well as cultural and social geography, cultural studies and sociology.

Author 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.

Table of Contents

General Introduction

PART 1: ORIENTATIONS
Introduction
1. Culture
2. Power
3. Postmodernism
4. Political economy
5. Methodology

PART 2: ELEMENTS
Introduction
6. Kinship
7. Economy
8. Politics
9. Religion
10. Exchange

PART 3: ISSUES
Introduction
11. Gender
12. Development
13. Ethnicity
14. Migration
15. Consumption
16. Environment
17. Globalisation
18. Material Culture and Art

PART 4: REGIONS
Introduction
19. Melanesia
20. Africa
21. Post-Socialist societies
22. South Asia
23. Amazonia
24. The West

PART 5: CONTEXT
Introduction
25. Research funding
26. Enrolment and employment
27. Applied & public anthropology
28. Related disciplines
29. Ethics

Bibliography
Index