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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...
Paleontology
René Bobe
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
PaleontologyIntroductionPaleontology is the study of the history of life through the fossil record. It is part of the Earth sciences because fossils d...
Performance Studies
D. Soyini Madison
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Performance Studies Introduction Performance has evolved into ways of comprehending how human beings fundamentally make culture, affect power,...
Performativity
Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Performativity Introduction Performativity is the power of language to effect change in the world: language does not simply describe the world...
Personhood
Dafna Shir-Vertesh
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
PersonhoodIntroductionPersonhood is a fluid analytical term with diverse and debated meanings. It is often hard to discern who is considered to be a p...
Perspectivism
Marina Vanzolini, Pedro Cesarino
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Perspectivism Introduction Perspectivism is a concept originally coined by the Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro to encapsul...
Philosophy of Museums
Victoria S. Harrison, Philip Tonner
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Philosophy of MuseumsIntroductionMuseums and their practices of collection, curation, and exhibition raise a host of philosophical questions. The phil...
Pilgrimage
John Eade, Evgenia Mesaritou
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
PilgrimageIntroductionThe multifaceted nature of contemporary pilgrimage cannot be understood from one particular discipline and, as a consequence, it...
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...
Postprocessual Archaeology
Robert W. Preucel
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Post-processual ArchaeologyIntroductionPost-processual archaeology refers to an intellectual movement in Anglo-American archaeology that emerged in th...
Postsocialism
Gareth Euan Hamilton
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
PostsocialismIntroductionTrying to give a simple definition of postsocialism is not simple, which is not merely academic poise—in the texts that are s...
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