The SAGE handbook of social anthropology. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Social anthrolopology
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard Fardon, Olivia Harris, Trevor H.J. Marchand, Mark Nuttall, Cris Shore, Veronica Strang and Richard A. Wilson.
• Editors: Fardon, Richard
• Other Names: Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth, publisher.
• Contents: VOLUME ONE; Preface: The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth - John Gledhill and James Fairhead; Foreword: Thinking Anthropologically, About British Social Anthropology - John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff; Introduction: Flying Theory, Grounded Method - Richard Fardon; PART ONE: INTERFACES - Edited by Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson; Introduction: Anthropology's Interdisciplinary Connections - Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson; Anthropology and Linguistics - Alessandro Duranti; Anthropology and Psychology - Christina Toren; Anthropology of Biomedicine and Bioscience - Sarah Franklin; Anthropology and Art - Arnd Schneider; Anthropology, Media and Cultural Studies - Kevin Latham; Anthropology and Public Policy - Cris Shore; Anthropology and Law - Sally Engle Merry; Anthropology and History - Jane K. Cowan; Anthropology and Archaeology - Julian Thomas; Anthropology, Economics and Development Studies - Keith Hart; Anthropology and the Political - Jennifer Curtis and Jonathan Spencer; Anthropology and Religious Studies - Martin Mills; Anthropology and Museums - Brian Durrans; Anthropology and Gender Studies - Henrietta L. Moore; Anthropology and the Postcolonial - Richard Werbner; Anthropology and Literature - C.W. Watson; PART TWO: PLACES - Edited by Mark Nuttall; Introduction: Place, Region, Culture, History: From Area Studies to a Globalized World - Mark Nuttall; The Circumpolar North: Locating the Arctic and Sub-Arctic - Mark Nuttall; Replacing Europe - Sarah Green; Retroversion, Introversion, Extraversion: Three Aspects of African Anthropology - David Pratten; Refiguring the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa - Glenn Bowman; Southwest and Central Asia: Comparison, Integration or Beyond? - Magnus Marsden; South Asia: Intimacy and Identities, Politics and Poverty - Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery; Modernization and its Aftermath: The Anthropology of Japan - D.P. Martinez; The Emerging Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Emerging China - J.S. Eades; Archipelagic Southeast Asia - Roy Ellen; Australasian Contrasts - Nicolas Peterson, Don Gardner and James Urry; Australia - Nicolas Peterson; Melanesia - Don Gardner; New Zealand/Aotearoa - James Urry; Two Indigenous Americas - Kathleen Lowrey and Pauline Turner Strong; North America - Pauline Turner Strong; South America - Kathleen Lowrey; North and Latin American National Societies from a Continental Perspective - John Gledhill and Peter Wade; Migration and Other Forms of Movement - Vered Amit; The Cosmopolitan World - Nigel Rapport; The Indigenous World - Robert K. Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli; VOLUME TWO; PART THREE: METHODS - Edited by the late Olivia Harris and Veronica Strang; Introduction: Issues of Method - Richard Fardon and Veronica Strang; Fieldwork Since the 1980s: Total Immersion and its Discontents - Janet Carsten; Between Routine and Rupture: The Archive as Field Event - Tristan Platt; The Role of Language in Ethnographic Method - Susan Gal; The Ethnographic Interview in an Age of Globalization - Joshua Barker; Interpreting Texts and Performances - Karin Barber; Blurred Visions: Reflecting Visual Anthropology - Rupert Cox and Christopher Wright; Artefacts in Anthropology - Liana Chua and Amiria Salmond; Knowledge and Experimental Practice: A Dialogue Between Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies - Penelope Harvey; Twenty-first Century Ethics for Audited Anthropologists - Nayanika Mookherjee; Ethics Out of the Ordinary - Michael Lambek; Researching Zones of Conflict and War - Paul Richards; Conflicts and Compromises? Experiences of Doing Anthropology at the Interface of Public Policy - Tim Allen and Melissa Parker; From Participant-Observation to Participant-Collaboration: Some Observations on Participatory-cum-Collaborative Approaches - Paul Sillitoe; Comparative Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology Today - Andre Gingrich; PART FOUR: FUTURES - Edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand; Introduction: Anthropologies to Come - Trevor H.J. Marchand; Section 4.1: Neo-Darwinism, Biology and the Brain Sciences; Anthropology and Neo-Darwinism - Robin I.M. Dunbar; Cognition, Evolution and the Future of Social Anthropology - Harvey Whitehouse; Neuroanthropology - Greg Downey; Knowledge in Hand: Explorations of Brain, Hand and Tool - Trevor H.J. Marchand; Section 4.2: After Development: Environment, Food, Energy, Disaster; Environment and Society: Political Ecologies and Moral Futures - James Fairhead and Melissa Leach; Anthropological Encounters with Economic Development and Biodiversity Conservation - Laura M. Rival; New Directions in the Anthropology of Food - Jakob A. Klein, Johan Pottier and Harry G. West; Water, Land and Territory - Veronica Strang; The Anthropology of Disaster Aftermath - Edward Simpson; Section 4.3: Demographics, Health and the Transforming Body; Demographies in Flux - Sophie Day; New Medical Anthropology - Helen Lambert; The Anthropology of Drugs - Axel Klein; Transforming Bodies: The Embodiment of Sexual and Gender Difference - Andrea Cornwall; Section 4.4: New Technologies and Materialities; New Materials and New Technologies: Science, Design and the Challenge to Anthropology - Susanne K chler; Anthropology and Emerging Technologies: Science, Subject and Symbiosis - Ron Eglash; From Media Anthropology to the Anthropology of Mediation - Dominic Boyer; Anthropology in the New Millennium - Christopher Pinney; Afterword: A Last Word on Futures - Marilyn Strathern;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (1184 pages)
• Subjects: 306; Ethnology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446266014
• Related ISBNs: 144626601X
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