Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology by Alan Barnard
This reference provides a guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline which discusses human social and cultural life in all its diversity and difference. Theory, ethnography and history are combined in over 230 substantial entries.'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 | 9780415285582 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415285585 |
| Title | Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| Author | Alan Barnard |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 664 |
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