Anthropology - B - Oxford Bibliographies
Boas, Franz
Vernon J. Williams
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Franz Boas Introduction Franz Boas was a scholar, professional, and activist who almost single-handedly transformed American anthropology from ...
Business Anthropology
Marietta L. Baba
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Business Anthropology Introduction Business refers to the buying and selling of goods and services in the marketplace, and the organized econ...
Consumerism
Jo Littler
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Consumerism Introduction “Consumerism” is a word with multiple meanings and histories. To begin with, it is frequently conflated with “consump...
Culture
Hai Ren
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Culture Introduction Culture is a term that describes and characterizes various ways in which human differences and similarities are recognized...
Culture, Popular
Elizabeth ErkenBrack, Rebecca Pardo, John L. Jackson
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Popular Culture Introduction An ambiguous concept by most accounts, “popular culture” first became a widely used term in the mid-19th century i...
Dance Ethnography
Helena Wulff
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Dance Ethnography Introduction An understanding of dance ethnography is twofold. First, it refers to the systematic face-to-face research of d...
Douglas, Mary
Perri 6, Paul Richards
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Mary Douglas Introduction Mary Douglas b. 1921–d. 2007 was an anthropologist and social theorist working in the Durkheimian tradition. Most an...
Drake, St. Clair
Aimee Meredith Cox
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
St. Clair Drake Introduction John Gibbs St. Clair Drake’s groundbreaking scholarship continues to be highly influential in the theoretical fram...
Economic Anthropology
Chris Hann
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Economic Anthropology Introduction Economic anthropology emerged in the 20th century at the interface between sociocultural anthropology (here...
Environmental Anthropology
Tracey Heatherington
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Environmental Anthropology Introduction Environmental anthropology deals broadly with culture and environment. Early anthropologists were inter...
Ethics
Leslie E. Sponsel
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Ethics Introduction Ethics in anthropology basically reflects general moral principles of what is bad and what is good in terms of what one sho...
Ethnoarchaeology
Kodzo Gavua
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Ethnoarchaeology Introduction Ethnoarchaeology is the strategic gathering and studying of ethnographic data on human behavior and its ramificat...
Ethnocentrism
Elizabeth Elliott Cooper
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Ethnocentrism Introduction Ethnocentrism is a term applied to the cultural or ethnic bias—whether conscious or unconscious—in which an individu...
Ethnography
John L. Jackson
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Ethnography Introduction Ethnography is a term that often is employed to describe both a recognizable literary genre within the social sciences...
Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
Roger Just
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
E.E. Evans-Pritchard Introduction Sir Edward Evans Evans-Pritchard (b. 1902–d. 1973), known to his friends, colleagues, and students as “E-P,” ...
Evolution, Cultural
Alex Mesoudi
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Cultural Evolution Introduction “Cultural evolution” is the idea that human cultural change––that is, changes in socially transmitted beliefs, ...
Feminist Anthropology
Lisa Anderson-Levy
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Feminist Anthropology Introduction Feminist anthropology is simultaneously a critique of male as well as Euro-centered and biased anthropology;...
Geertz, Clifford
Matthew D. Thompson
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Clifford Geertz Introduction Clifford Geertz (b. 1926–d. 2006) has had a tremendous impact on cultural anthropology and, more generally, all of...
Gender
Rebecca L. Upton
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Gender Introduction Gender is a key concept in the discipline of anthropology. Sex and gender are defined differently in anthropology, the form...
Genetics
Omer Gokcumen
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Genetics Introduction The inherited traits that shape human variation have been a major focus of anthropologists and biologists alike. Recently...
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