Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology by Alan Barnard

Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology by Alan Barnard

This Encyclopedia provides description and analysis of the terms, concepts and issues of social and cultural anthropology. International in authorship and coverage, this accessible work is fully indexed and cross-referenced.

'This is one of those few privileged works that may actually redefine a fieldSituating current debates in the context of the historical development of anthropology ... it charts a contemporary discourse that is vibrant, sophisticated and unexpectedly coherent. This is what post postmodernist anthropology looks like.' - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

'An intelligent, informative and entertaining addition to the deplorably small number of reference works in the field.' - Choice

Alan Barnard studied at George Washington, McMaster and London Universities and is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He has done extensive fieldwork and is author of Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Research Practices in the Study of Kinship (with Anthony Good, Academic Press, 1984), and numerous articles on hunter-gatherers, kinship and the history of anthropology. Jonathan Spencer studied anthropology at the Universities of Edinburgh, Chicago and Oxford and is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He has carried out extensive research in Sri Lanka and is the author of A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble (Oxford University Press, 1990) and many articles on politics, nationalism and religion.

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ISBN 13	9780415099967
ISBN 10	041509996X
Title	Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Author	Alan Barnard
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1996-09-19
Number of pages	684
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