"Published with the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth."
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Preface: The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth / John Gledhill (Chair of the ASA 2005-2009) and James Fairhead (Chair of the ASA 2009-2013) -- Foreword: Thinking Anthropologically, about British Social Anthropology / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Introduction -- Flying Theory, Grounded Method / Richard Fardon (Chair of the ASA 2001-2005) -- Part 1 Interfaces / Edited by Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson. Introduction / Anthropology's Interdisciplinary Connections / Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson -- 1.1 Anthropology and Linguistics / Alessandro Duranti -- 1.2 Anthropology and Psychology / Christina Toren -- 1.3 Anthropology of Biomedicine and Bioscience / Sarah Franklin -- 1.4 Anthropology and Art / Arnd Schneider -- 1.5 Anthropology, Media and Cultural Studies / Kevin Latham -- 1.6 Anthropology and Public Policy / Cris Shore -- 1.7 Anthropology and Law / Sally Engle Merry -- 1.8 Anthropology and History / Jane K. Cowan -- 1.9 Anthropology and Archaeology / Julian Thomas -- 1.10 Anthropology, Economics and Development Studies / Keith Hart -- 1.11 Anthropology and the Political / Jennifer Curtis and Jonathan Spencer -- 1.12 Anthropology and Religious Studies / Martin Mills -- 1.13 Anthropology and Museums / Brian Durrans -- 1.14 Anthropology and Gender Studies / Henrietta L. Moore -- 1.15 Anthropology and the Postcolonial / Richard Werbner -- 1.16 Anthropology and Literature / C.W. Watson.
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Part 2 Places / Edited by Mark Nuttall. Introduction -- Place, Region, Culture, History: From Area Studies to a Globalized World / Mark Nuttall -- 2.1 The Circumpolar North: Locating the Arctic and Sub-Arctic / Mark Nuttall -- 2.2 Replacing Europe / Sarah Green -- 2.3 Retroversion, Introversion, Extraversion: Three Aspects of African Anthropology / David Pratten -- 2.4 Refiguring the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa / Glenn Bowman -- 2.5 Southwest and Central Asia: Comparison, Integration or Beyond? / Magnus Marsden -- 2.6 South Asia: Intimacy and Identities, Politics and Poverty / Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery -- 2.7 Modernization and its Aftermath: The Anthropology of Japan / D.P. Martinez -- 2.8 The Emerging Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Emerging China / J.S. Eades -- 2.9 Archipelagic Southeast Asia / Roy Ellen -- 2.10 Australasian Contrasts / Nicolas Peterson, Don Gardner and James Urry -- Australia / Nicolas Peterson -- Melanesia / Don Gardner -- New Zealand/Aotearoa / James Urry -- 2.11 Two Indigenous Americas / Kathleen Lowrey and Pauline Turner Strong -- North America / Pauline Turner Strong -- South America / Kathleen Lowrey -- 2.12 North and Latin American National Societies from a Continental Perspective / John Gledhill and Peter Wade -- 2.13 Migration and other Forms of Movement / Vered Amit -- 2.14 The Cosmopolitan World / Nigel Rapport -- 2.15 The Indigenous World / Robert K. Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli.
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Part 3 Methods / Edited by the late Olivia Harris and Veronica Strang. Introduction -- Issues of Method- Richard Fardon and Veronica Strang -- 3.1 Fieldwork Since the 1980s: Total Immersion and its Discontents / Janet Carsten -- 3.2 Between Routine and Rupture: The Archive as Field Event / Tristan Platt -- 3.3 The Role of Language in Ethnographic Method / Susan Gal -- 3.4 The Ethnographic Interview in an Age of Globalization / Joshua Barker -- 3.5 Interpreting Texts and Performances / Karin Barber -- 3.6 Blurred Visions: Reflecting Visual Anthropology / Rupert Cox and Christopher Wright -- 3.7 Artefacts in Anthropology / Liana Chua and Amiria Salmond -- 3.8 Knowledge and Experimental Practice: A Dialogue between Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies / Penelope Harvey -- 3.9a Twenty-first Century Ethics for Audited Anthropologists / Nayanika Mookherjee -- 3.9b Ethics Out of the Ordinary / Michael Lambek -- 3.10 Researching Zones of Conflict and War / Paul Richards -- 3.11 Conflicts and Compromises? Experiences of Doing Anthropology at the Interface of Public Policy / Tim Allen and Melissa Parker -- 3.12 From Participant-Observation to Participant-Collaboration: Some Observations on Participatory-cum-Collaborative Approaches / Paul Sillitoe -- 3.13 Comparative Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology Today / Andre Gingrich.
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Part 4 Futures / Edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand. Introduction -- Anthropologies to Come / Trevor H.J. Marchand -- 4.1 Neo-Darwinism, Biology and the Brain Sciences -- 4.1.1 Anthropology and Neo-Darwinism / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- 4.1.2 Cognition, Evolution and the Future of Social Anthropology / Harvey Whitehouse -- 4.1.3 Neuroanthropology / Greg Downey -- 4.1.4 Knowledge in Hand: Explorations of Brain, Hand and Tool / Trevor H.J. Marchand -- 4.2 After Development / Environment, Food, Energy, Disaster -- 4.2.1 Environment and Society: Political Ecologies and Moral Futures / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach -- 4.2.2 Anthropological Encounters with Economic Development and Biodiversity Conservation / Laura M. Rival -- 4.2.3 New Directions in the Anthropology of Food / Jakob A. Klein, Johan Pottier and Harry G. West -- 4.2.4 Water, Land and Territory / Veronica Strang -- 4.2.5 The Anthropology of Disaster Aftermath / Edward Simpson -- 4.3 Demographics, Health and the Transforming Body -- 4.3.1 Demographies in Flux / Sophie Day -- 4.3.2 New Medical Anthropology / Helen Lambert -- 4.3.3 The Anthropology of Drugs / Axel Klein -- 4.3.4 Transforming Bodies: The Embodiment of Sexual and Gender Difference / Andrea Cornwall -- 4.4 New Technologies and Materialities -- 4.4.1 New Materials and New Technologies: Science, Design and the Challenge to Anthropology / Susanne Küchler -- 4.4.2 Anthropology and Emerging Technologies: Science, Subject and Symbiosis / Ron Eglash -- 4.4.3 From Media Anthropology to the Anthropology of Mediation / Dominic Boyer -- 4.4.4 Anthropology in the New Millennium / Christopher Pinney -- Afterword: A Last Word on Futures- Marilyn Strathern (Life President of the ASA).
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology.
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International Standard Book Number
9781847875471
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Handbook of social anthropology
Parallel Title
Social anthropology
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Ethnology.
Ethnology.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
301
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
S34
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PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Fardon, Richard
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Fardon, Richard
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth.