Anthropology - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
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 ...
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