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Militarism, Anthropology and
David Price
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Anthropology and Militarism ...
Missionization
James S. Bielo
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Missionization Introduction Missionization is a term that references a historical process of religious evangelism. The term most often refers ...
Mobility
Roger Norum
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
MobilityIntroductionBroadly speaking, mobility refers to the socio-cultural processes surrounding movement. As a focus of anthropological research, mo...
Modernity
Brian Silverstein
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
ModernityIntroductionWhile the discipline of anthropology coalesced in the late 19th century around the study of purportedly “non-Western” (which usua...
Morgan, Lewis Henry
Robert Launay
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Lewis Henry MorganIntroductionLewis Henry Morgan (b. 1818–d. 1881) is considered one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. As a young lawyer...
Multispecies Ethnography
Piers Locke, Ursula Muenster
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
Multispecies Ethnography Introduction Multispecies ethnography is a rubric for a more-than-human approach to ethnographic research and writing...
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...
Museum Education
George E. Hein, Kimberly H. McCray
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
Museum EducationIntroductionEducation has been associated with museums from their earliest days, back to the famous Hellenic Mouseion of Alexandria, a...
Museum Studies
John E. Simmons, Kiersten F. Latham
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Museum StudiesIntroductionThis article is on museum studies, not on museums. Museum studies is defined as the interdisciplinary engagement in critical...
Myth
Sean O'Neill
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
MythIntroductionMyth has been on the shortlist of key concepts in anthropology from the very start, emerging out of work with “oral literature” in pre...
NAGPRA and Repatriation of Native American Human Remains and Cultural Objects
Russell Thornton, Jamie Geronimo Vela
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
NAGPRA and Repatriation of Native American Human Remains and Cultural ObjectsIntroductionHundreds of thousands—some say 1 million—Native American skel...
Narrative in Sociocultural Studies of Language
Hilary Parsons Dick, Claudia P. Segura, Nancy Dennehy
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Narrative in Sociocultural Studies of LanguageIntroductionNarrative is a way of using language and other signs (images, gestures, etc.) to produce a c...
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...
Needham, Rodney
Colin Kidd
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Rodney NeedhamIntroductionRodney Needham (b. 1923–d. 2006) was a brilliant and daring anthropologist, possessed of considerable imagination and theore...
Neoliberalism
Kathleen Hall, Rachael Stephens
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
NeoliberalismIntroductionNeoliberalism as a political economic philosophy emerged from a long history of over fifty years of debate within a transnati...
NGOs, Anthropology of
Mark Schuller, David Lewis
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Anthropology of Ngos Introduction Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly important institutional actors in most societ...
Niche Construction
Emily A. Schultz
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2021-06-23
Niche ConstructionIntroductionNiche construction is a concept that originated in evolutionary biology. It challenges the assumption that ecological ni...
Northwest Coast, The
Leslie H. Tepper
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
The Northwest CoastIntroductionThe distinctive culture of the Indigenous populations on the Northwest Coast (NWC) and their colonial history—from Euro...
Oceania, Archaeology of
Ethan E. Cochrane
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Archaeology of OceaniaIntroductionOceania comprises the islands of the Pacific Ocean and nearby seas originally settled from Island Southeast Asia by ...
Paleolithic Art
Iain Davidson
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Paleolithic ArtIntroductionPaleolithic art first came to the attention of scholars through excavations in French caves (Lartet and Christy 1875, cited...
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