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Sexuality
Richard G. Parker, Laura R. Murray
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Sexuality Introduction Research on sexuality (and related topics such as gender, reproduction, and kinship relations) has figured prominently i...
Social Anthropology (British Tradition)
Henrika Kuklick
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Social Anthropology (British Tradition) Introduction Social anthropology has been one of Great Britain’s most successful intellectual exports. ...
Social Movements
Yarimar Bonilla
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Social Movements Introduction Within anthropology the literature on social movements has examined a wide arrange of processes and practices of ...
Tourism
Carla Guerrón Montero
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Tourism Introduction Anthropology has expanded and changed radically by including within its purview the study of tourism. In spite of the ubiq...
Urban Anthropology
Mérida M. Rúa, Arlene Torres
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Urban Anthropology Introduction Urban anthropology investigates cities and the sociocultural experiences and practices of urban dwellers in rel...
Violence
Deborah A. Thomas
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Violence Introduction One of the hallmarks of the contemporary moment is a pervasive sense of the anarchic proliferation of, if not an actual i...
Visual Anthropology
Marcus Banks
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Visual Anthropology Introduction Visual anthropology can be broadly understood as the anthropological study of the visual and the visual study ...
Whorfian Hypothesis
Daniel Casasanto
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Whorfian Hypothesis Introduction The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (a.k.a. the Whorfian hypothesis) concerns the relationship between language and tho...
Witchcraft
Isak Niehaus
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Witchcraft Introduction Witchcraft refers to a belief in the perpetration of harm by persons through mystical means. The history of witch perse...
Wolf, Eric R.
Josiah McC. Heyman
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Eric R. Wolf Introduction Eric R. Wolf (b. 1923–d. 1999) received a BA in anthropology from Queens College, City University of New York, and a ...
Youth Culture
Shalini Shankar
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Youth Culture Introduction The anthropological study of youth began as part of broader inquiries about life cycle, ritual, personhood, and gen...
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