Anthropology - H - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
Legal Anthropology
Tobias Kelly
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Legal Anthropology Introduction Legal practices, processes, and claims are among the most powerful forces that shape our lives. Legal anthropol...
Linguistic Anthropology
Valentina Pagliai
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Linguistic Anthropology Introduction Alternatively called linguistic anthropology or anthropological linguistics, this subfield of anthropology...
Literary Anthropology
Nigel Rapport
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Literary Anthropology Introduction The field of “literary anthropology” actually covers two fields of study. The first is an exploration of the...
Magic
Pamela A. Moro
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Magic Introduction Theories of magic began with the mid-19th century origins of anthropology. Despite periodic attempts to dissolve the concept...
Mead, Margaret
Paul Shankman
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Margaret Mead Introduction Margaret Mead (1901–1978) was the best-known anthropologist of the 20th century. At the time of her death, she was a...
Media Anthropology
Rebecca Pardo, Elizabeth ErkenBrack, John L. Jackson
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Media Anthropology Introduction Although anthropologists have long addressed topics related to media and communications technologies, some ha...
Morgan, Lewis Henry
Robert Launay
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Lewis Henry Morgan Introduction Lewis Henry Morgan (b. 1818–d. 1881) is considered one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. As a you...
Museum Anthropology
Alaka Wali, Rosa Cabrera, Jennifer Anderson
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Museum Anthropology Introduction The field of museum anthropology predates the institutionalization of anthropology as an academic disciplin...
Nationalism
Michael Herzfeld
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Nationalism Introduction The erstwhile concentration of anthropologists on small, bounded communities often appeared to occlude such encompassi...
Political Anthropology
Ajantha Subramanian
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Political Anthropology Introduction Political anthropology emphasizes context, process, and scale. The field has been most concerned with the c...
Poverty, Culture of
Dana-Ain Davis
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Culture of Poverty Introduction The term culture of poverty emerged in 1959 to explain why people were poor. The culture of poverty concept del...
Primatology
Christina J. Campbell
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Primatology Introduction Primatology, the scientific study of the members of the order Primates is, by its very nature, a multidisciplinary fie...
Processual Archaeology
William H. Krieger
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Processual Archaeology Introduction Processual archaeology (also known as new or scientific archaeology) is a theoretical movement rooted in th...
Public Archaeology
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Public Archaeology Introduction Public archaeology refers to those aspects of the broad field of archaeology that relate to the public interest...
Public Sociocultural Anthropologies
Peggy Reeves Sanday
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Public Sociocultural Anthropologies Introduction In its early history as a distinct social science discipline, anthropology’s public outreach c...
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