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Healing and Religion
Dori-Michelle Beeler, Jojan L. Jonker
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Healing and ReligionIntroductionThe etymology of the term “healing” dates back to 900 ce with references pointing to northwestern Europe. Historically...
Health and Social Stratification
Carlos Martinez, Seth M. Holmes
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Health and Social StratificationIntroductionSince the beginnings of sociocultural anthropology, curiosities have been stoked by the question of why cu...
Health Policy, Anthropology of
Jessica Mulligan, Ingrid Brugnoli-Ensin
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Anthropology of Health PolicyIntroductionGiven its holistic orientation, most medical anthropology touches upon politics: how power organizes systems ...
Heritage Language
Thea Strand, Michael Wroblewski
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Heritage LanguageIntroductionHeritage languages include the languages of many indigenous populations, as well as those of immigrants and their descend...
HIV/AIDS
Thurka Sangaramoorthy
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
HIV/AIDSIntroductionAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) represents a group of conditions that occur as a result of severe immunosuppression rela...
House Museums
Andrea Terry
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
House MuseumsIntroductionHouse museums are dwellings that are museumized and account for 10 to 15 percent of all museums around the world. Their locat...
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...
Human Rights
Samuel Martínez, Catherine Buerger
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Human RightsIntroductionOnce considered a topic that held little interest for cultural anthropologists, human rights became a focus of growing anthrop...
Human Rights Films
Nancy Lipkin Stein
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Human Rights FilmsIntroductionWhat defines a human rights film, and how does one go about setting the criteria? Here, the selected websites, festival ...
Humanistic Anthropology
Frederic Gleach
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Humanistic Anthropology ...
Hurston, Zora Neale
Oneka LaBennett
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Zora Neale HurstonIntroductionZora Neale Hurston was a dynamic interdisciplinary writer and ethnographer who earned acclaim during the Harlem Renaissa...
Identity
Melanie Griffiths
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Identity Introduction Anthropologists have long been fascinated by how individuals and collectives understand and construct themselves and one...
Identity Politics
Vasiliki Neofotistos
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Identity Politics Introduction Identity politics, also commonly referred to as the politics of identity or identity-based politics, is a phras...
Indigeneity
Paulette F. Steeves
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
IndigeneityIntroductionThere are minimally 370 million Indigenous people in the world. The term Indigenous was not used to identify human groups until...
Indigenous Economic Development
Rick Colbourne, Robert Anderson, Irene Henriques, Ana María Peredo, Bettina Schneider
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
Indigenous Economic DevelopmentIntroductionIndigenous economic development is a distinctive activity that operates at the intersection of social and e...
Industrial Archaeology
Marilyn Palmer
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Industrial ArchaeologyIntroductionIndustrial archaeology is a relatively new field, originating in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, when the postwar p...
Institutions
Katie Rose Hejtmanek
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
InstitutionsIntroductionAnthropology recognizes two kinds of institutions: total institutions and social institutions. Presently, the term institution...
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...
Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity
Michael Prentice, Meghanne Barker
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Intertextuality and InterdiscursivityIntroductionIntertextuality, along with its kin term, interdiscursivity, has been one of the most widely circulat...
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