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Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology have deep connections to the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded greatly. 'Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: an Encyclopedia' provides quick overviews of theories and theorists with just the basics - the 'who, what, where, how, and why'.
Abstract: Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Theory in social and Cultural Anthropology is a much-needed source providing quick overviews of key theories and theorists within the field.

Table of Contents:

• Volume 1. Introduction
• Abu-Lughod, Lila
• Alliance-Descent Debate
• Althusser, Louis
• American Anthropological Association
• American Museum of Natural History
• Anderson, Benedict
• Animism, Animatism
• Appadurai, Arjun
• Applied Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Aristotle
• Asad, Talal
• Autoethnography
• Bachofen, Johann J.
• Bailey, Frederick G.
• Bakhtin, Mikhail M.
• Barth, Fredrik
• Barthes, Roland
• Bastian, Adolf

• Bataille, Georges
• Bateson, Gregory
• Baudrillard, Jean
• Benedict, Ruth F.
• Benjamin, Walter
• Binford, Lewis R.
• Biography/Life Writing
• Bloch, Maurice
• Bloomfield, Leonard
• Boas, Franz
• Bohannan, Paul
• Bourdieu, Pierre
• Burke, Kenneth
• Butler, Judith
• Cambridge University
• Carneiro, Robert L.
• Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
• Childhood
• Chodorow, Nancy
• Chomsky, Noam
• Clifford, James
• Cognitive Anthropology
• Columbia University
• Communitas
• Comparative Linguistics
• Comparative Method
• Comte, Auguste
• Condorcet, Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat
• Critical Theory
• Cultural Ecology
• Cultural Materialism
• Cultural Relativism
• Cultural Transmission
• Culture and Personality
• Culture Area Approach
• Darwin, Charles
• Dawkins, Richard
• Deconstruction
• Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari
• Dependency Theory
• Derrida, Jacques
• Descriptive Linguistics
• Diffusionism, Hyperdiffusionism, Kulturkreise
• Discourse Theory
• Douglas, Mary
• Du Bois, W. E. B.
• DuBois, Cora
• Dumont, Louis
• Dundes, Alan
• Durkheim, Émile
• Economic Anthropology
• Ethnography of Speaking
• Ethnohistory
• Ethnomethodology
• Ethnoscience/New Ethnography
• Ethology, Human
• Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
• Evolutionary Anthropology
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Face-to-Face Interaction
• Fanon, Frantz
• Feminist Anthropology
• Ferguson, Adam
• Firth, Raymond
• Fischer, Michael
• Formalism/Substantivism
• Fortes, Meyer
• Fortune, Reo
• Foster, George M.
• Foucault, Michel
• Frankfurt School
• Frazer, James G.
• Freud, Sigmund
• Fried, Morton
• Frobenius, Leo
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg
• Game Theory
• Geertz, Clifford
• Geffray, Christian
• Gender and Anthropology
• Gender Diversity
• Gene-Culture Coevolution
• Generative Grammar
• Gennep, Arnold van
• Gift Exchange
• Girard, René
• Globalization Theory
• Gluckman, Max
• Godelier, Maurice
• Goffman, Erving
• Goldenweiser, Alexander A.
• Goodenough, Ward H.
• Goody, Jack
• Graebner, Fritz
• Gramsci, Antonio
• Great Exhibition of 1851 (Crystal Palace)
• Greenberg, Joseph
• Griaule, Marcel
• Gumperz, John J.
• Habermas, Jürgen
• Habitus
• Haddon, Alfred C.
• Hall, Edward T.
• Hallowell, A. Irving
• Harris, Marvin
• Harvey, David
• Hegel, Georg W. F.
• Hermeneutics
• Herskovits, Melville
• Hertz, Robert
• Historical Particularism
• Hobbes, Thomas
• Hocart, Arthur M.
• Human Behavioral Ecology
• Human Relations Area Files, Cross-Cultural Studies
• Human Universals
• Humanistic Anthropology
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Husserl, Edmund
• Hymes, Dell
• Institut d'Ethnologie (Paris)
• Jakobson, Roman O.
• Jameson, Fredric
• Kardiner, Abram
• Kluckhohn, Clyde
• Kroeber, Alfred L.
• Kuper, Hilda B.
• Labov, William
• Lacan, Jacques
• Lafitau, Joseph-Frandcois
• Lamphere, Louise
• L'Année Sociologique
• Latour, Bruno
• Leach, Edmund
• Leacock, Eleanor
• LeVine, Robert
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude
• Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
• Lewis, Oscar
• Lienhardt, Godfrey
• Linton, Ralph
• London School of Economics
• Lounsbury, Floyd
• Lowie, Robert
• Lubbock, John
• Lyotard, Jean-François
• Maine, Henry James
• Mair, Lucy
• Malinowski, Bronislaw
• Malthus, Thomas R.
• Manchester School
• Marcus, George
• Marx, Karl
• Marxist Anthropology
• Material Production, Theories of
• Mauss, Marcel
• McLennan, John
• Mead, George Herbert
• Mead, Margaret
• Meillassoux, Claude
• Mintz, Sidney
• Mobility
• Modernism
• Montesquieu, Comte de
• Morgan, Lewis Henry
• Müller, Max
• Murdock, George Peter
• Musée de l'Homme
• Myth, Theories of
• Nader, Laura
• Nash, June
• Nationalism, Transnationalism
• Native Anthropology, Native Anthropologist
• Needham, Rodney
• Neo-Boasianism
• Neo-Kantianism
• Network Theory/Social Network Analysis
• Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Anthropology
• Ortner, Sherry
• Oxford University
• Parsons, Elsie C.
• Parsons, Talcott
• Phenomenology
• Pike, Kenneth
• Pitt Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox
• Plato
• Polanyi, Karl
• Political Economy
• Popper, Karl
• Postcolonial Theory
• Postmodernism
• Poststructuralism
• Practice Theory
• Prague School of Linguistics
• Psychological Anthropology
• Public Sphere
• Queer Theory
• Rabinow, Paul
• Race
• Radcliffe-Brown, A. R.
• Radin, Paul
• Rappaport, Roy
• Rational Choice Theory
• Redfield, Robert
• Religion
• Rhodes-Livingstone Institute
• Richards, Audrey
• Rites de Passage
• Rivers, W. H. R.
• Rivet, Paul
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Róheim, Géza
• Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist
• Rosaldo, Renato
• Rouch, Jean
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
• Royal Anthropological Institute
• Sacrifice
• Sahlins, Marshall
• Said, Edward
• Sanday, Peggy Reeves
• Sapir, Edward
• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Neo-Whorfianism
• Saussure, Ferdinand de
• Scapes
• Schapera, Isaac
• Scheper-Hughes, Nancy
• Schneider, David M.
• Seligman, Charles Gabriel
• Semiotics
• Service, Elman R.
• Simmel, Georg
• Smith, Adam
• Smith, Grafton Elliot
• Smith, Neil
• Smith, William Robertson
• Smithsonian Institution
• Social Constructionism
• Social Studies of Science
• Sociolinguistics
• Soviet Anthropology
• Spencer, Herbert
• Spencer, Walter Baldwin, and Francis James Gillen
• Sperber, Dan
• Spiro, Melford
• Srinivas, M. N.
• Steward, Julian
• Strathern, Marilyn
• Structural Functionalism
• Structural Marxism
• Structuralism
• Subaltern Studies
• Subjectivity
• Sustainability
• Swadesh, Morris
• Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Systems Theory
• Tambiah, Stanley
• Tax, Sol
• Tedlock, Barbara and Dennis
• Thick Description
• Torres Straits Expedition
• Turner, Victor W.
• Tyler, Stephen A.
• Tylor, Edward Burnett
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Michigan
• Urban Studies
• Utilitarianism
• Vayda, Andrew P.
• Veblen, Thorstein B.
• Visual Anthropology
• Voltaire
• Wagley, Charles
• Wallace, Alfred R.
• Wallace, Anthony F. C.
• Wallerstein, Immanuel
• Weber, Max
• Wenner-Gren Foundation
• Westermarck, Edward
• White, Leslie
• Whorf, Benjamin Lee
• Wilson, Edward O.
• Wilson, Monica
• Wittfogel, Karl
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig
• Wolf, Eric
• World-Systems Theory
• Wundt, Wilhelm
• Chronology of Theory in Anthropology.

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Contributors:

McGee, R. Jon, 1955- , editor

Warms, Richard L. , editor

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Ethnology — Encyclopedias

Anthropology — Philosophy — Encyclopedias

Ethnology

Anthropology — Philosophy

Anthropology

Genres:

Encyclopedias

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 entries) : 6 images

Call Numbers:

GN307 .T54 2013eb

ISBNs:

9781784024666 (electronic version)
9781412999632 (hardcover) [Invalid]
1412999634 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013016332 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

875123893

Other Control Numbers:

slc00234144 (source: CaBNVSL)
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