Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

by NigelRapport (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
Edition: 3
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 15 Jul 2014

ISBN 10: 0415834511
ISBN 13: 9780415834513

Author Bio
Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing are both Professors of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Nigel Rapport is the author of numerous books on anthropology, including Transcendent Individual: Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology (1997) and, with Anthony P Cohen, Questions of Consciousness (1995). Both are published by Routledge. Joanna Overing is the author of many publications on Amazonia and on anthropological theory. She is the editor of the volume Reason and Morality (Routledge, 1985), and also, with Alan Passes, of The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia (Routledge: 2000).