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Africa, Anthropology of
Dillon Mahoney
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Anthropology of AfricaIntroductionAnthropological research in Africa has a long and storied history. Even before the trained British professional anth...
Aging
Jason Danely
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
AgingIntroductionAnthropological interest in age initially followed two strands that reflected the divide between structural functionalism in the Unit...
Agriculture
Andrew Flachs, Glenn Stone
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Agriculture Introduction Because food production is so central to human life, scholars have had a long interest in agriculture, its origins, a...
Animal Ritual
John Hartigan
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2022-11-29
Animal RitualIntroductionRituals are a universal aspect of vertebrate life; they mediate interactions that range from routine to stressful. Rituals en...
Animal Sanctuaries
Elan Abrell
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2021-06-23
Animal SanctuariesIntroductionAnimal sanctuaries are human-created spaces for the protection and care of animals rescued from conditions of violence, ...
Anorexia Nervosa
Karin Eli, Stanley Ulijaszek
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Anorexia Nervosa Introduction With its multidimensional etiology, rich history, and increasingly complex epidemiology, anorexia nervosa has em...
Anthropocene, The
Nicholas Kawa
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
The AnthropoceneIntroductionSoon, the Anthropocene will be formally submitted as a chronostratigraphic unit of the Geological Time Scale. This means, ...
Anthropological Activism and Visual Ethnography
Jonathan S. Marion, James Scanlan
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Anthropological Activism and Visual EthnographyIntroductionSince the development of mechanical visual technologies—such as still and moving photograph...
Anthropology and Theology
J. Derrick Lemons
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Anthropology and TheologyIntroductionThe anthropologies of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and Buddhism have inherent theologies that need to ...
Anthropology of Islam
Saba Mahmood, Jean-Michel Landry
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Anthropology of IslamIntroductionThe emergence of Islam as an object of anthropological inquiry results from a series of shifts internal to the discip...
Anthropology of Kurdistan
Chris Houston
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Anthropology of KurdistanIntroductionOutside of the autonomous Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, surrounding states and the United Nations do not rec...
Anthropology of the Senses
Kelvin E.Y. Low
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Anthropology of the SensesIntroductionEstablished over the past several decades, scholarship on anthropology of the senses has built upon cognate and ...
Anthrozoology
Molly Mullin, Dafna Shir-Vertesh
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Anthrozoology Introduction Anthrozoology examines humans’ relationships with animals. As an interdisciplinary field, anthrozoology connects wi...
Antiquity, Ethnography in
James Adam Redfield
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Ethnography in AntiquityIntroductionToday “ethnography” refers to three things simultaneously: it is a term for a body of scientific knowledge; a meth...
Applied Anthropology
Barbara Rose Johnston
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Applied Anthropology Introduction As a term and a subject area, applied anthropology refers to that broad array of research, methods, and outco...
Archaeobotany
Meriel McClatchie
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-08-26
ArchaeobotanyIntroductionArchaeobotany explores people’s engagement with plants and landscapes through analysis of preserved plant remains. Delicate, ...
Archaeological Education
Michael Corbishley
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Archaeological EducationIntroductionWas there ever a time before there was archaeological education? In the 1920s the topic began to be discussed by s...
Archaeology
Wendy Ashmore, Thomas C. Patterson
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Archaeology Introduction Archaeology is a historical social science concerned with study of past societies and cultures through material traces...
Archaeology and Museums
Alex Barker
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Archaeology and MuseumsIntroductionIf archaeology is a historical social science concerned with study of past societies and cultures through material ...
Archaeology and Political Evolution
Gary M. Feinman
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-08-26
Archaeology and Political EvolutionIntroductionHumans are able to aggregate and cooperate at scales larger than almost all other animals. In contrast,...
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