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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...
Genocide
Jeff Benvenuto, Alex Hinton
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Genocide Introduction Genocide is one of the most serious problems confronting humanity. It has produced extreme suffering, hundreds of m...
Globalization
Gregory S. Gullette
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Globalization Introduction In effect, globalization is the development and proliferation of complex, interdependent international connections c...
Gluckman, Max
Emanuel Marx
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Max Gluckman Introduction Max (Herman) Gluckman (b. 1911–d. 1975) was a South African who became a pathbreaking British social anthropologist....
Human Adaptability
Daniel E. Brown
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Human Adaptability Introduction The field of human adaptability is a subdiscipline within the broader field of biological anthropology. Human a...
Human Evolution
Jonathan Marks
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Human Evolution Introduction The changes from Miocene ape to modern person, over several million years, make up the subject matter of human evo...
Interpretive Anthropology
Neni Panourgiá
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Interpretive Anthropology Introduction “Interpretive anthropology” refers to the specific approach to ethnographic writing and practice interre...
Kinship
Robert Parkin
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Kinship Introduction Kinship has traditionally been one of the key topics in social and cultural anthropology. There are two principal reasons ...
Language Ideology
Judith T. Irvine
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Language Ideology Introduction Language ideologies are conceptualizations about languages, speakers, and discursive practices. Like other kinds...
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