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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...
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...
Primitivism and Race in Ethnographic Film: A Decolonial Re-visioning
Arjun Shankar
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Primitivism and Race in Ethnographic Film: A Decolonial Re-visioningIntroductionEthnographic film, given its history as a vestige of colonial visual c...
Processual Archaeology
William H. Krieger
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Processual ArchaeologyIntroductionProcessual archaeology (also known as new or scientific archaeology) is a theoretical movement rooted in the 1960s–1...
Psycholinguistics
Asifa Majid
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Psycholinguistics Introduction Talking and listening appear to be easy and effortless. What could be simpler? However, the apparent simplicity...
Psychological Anthropology
Andrew Beatty
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Psychological AnthropologyIntroductionPsychological anthropology is the study of psychological topics using anthropological concepts and methods. Amon...
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...
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