Anthropology - Oxford Bibliographies
Archaeology and the Body
Julie K. Wesp, Rosemary A. Joyce
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Archaeology and the BodyIntroductionThe body has become a central focus of archaeological research as practitioners ask questions about the role of in...
Archaeology of Childhood
Jane Eva Baxter
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Archaeology of ChildhoodIntroductionThe archaeology of childhood is an area of scholarly inquiry that makes explicit archaeological interests in child...
Archaeology of the Senses
Jo Day
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Archaeology of the SensesIntroductionThe influence of the “sensory turn” in the social sciences was first manifested in archaeology in the late 1990s ...
Archaeology, Gender and
Karen Dempsey
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Gender and ArchaeologyIntroductionIn archaeology, gender is not a simple man-woman binary classification. It is the performance and embodiment of an i...
Archaeology, Global
Claire Smith, Heather Burke
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Global ArchaeologyIntroductionGlobal archaeology is the archaeology of globalization, documenting and unearthing the material markers of its origins, ...
Archaeology, Historical
Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Historical ArchaeologyIntroductionHistorical archaeology is a relatively new field, having been professionalized only since the 1960s. Some historical...
Archaeology, Indigenous
George P. Nicholas
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Indigenous ArchaeologyIntroductionWhat has become known as “indigenous archaeology” took form in the 1990s through efforts to ensure a place for desce...
Archives
David Zeitlyn
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
ArchivesIntroductionArchives and archival studies have an increasingly high profile within anthropology. The term gets used to cover several different...
Art/Aesthetics
Jeremy MacClancy
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Art/Aesthetics Introduction The anthropology of art includes within its ambit the anthropological study of any aspect of artistic production, ...
Autoethnography
Deborah Reed-Danahay
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
AutoethnographyIntroductionThe term autoethnography is subject to different interpretations and some controversy. It can refer to the ethnography of o...
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Chaise LaDousa
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Mikhail BakhtinIntroductionMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (b. 1895–d. 1975) was a literary theorist whose work remained obscure until the last decade of...
Bass, William M.
Hugh Berryman, Mitzi P. Dunkley, Tiffany Saul
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
William M. BassIntroductionWilliam M. “Bill” Bass (b. 1928) is a well-known forensic anthropologist made famous for creating the Anthropology Research...
Beauty
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Beauty Introduction While anthropologists have examined aesthetic forms and practices from the discipline’s inception, interest in beauty cult...
Belief
Jan J. Lorenz
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
BeliefIntroductionBelief has been one of the central concerns in anthropological and sociological studies of religion since the onset of the two disci...
Benedict, Ruth
Judith Schachter
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Ruth BenedictIntroductionRuth Fulton Benedict, an American anthropologist (1887–1948), is best known for her contribution to the “culture and personal...
Binford, Lewis
David Meltzer
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Lewis Binford Introduction Lewis R. Binford (b. 1931–d. 2011) was an American archaeologist who had a profound impact on the thinking and prac...
Bioarchaeology
Kristina Killgrove
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Bioarchaeology Introduction The study of the human bodies of past cultures, bioarchaeology became a major research area in the social sciences...
Biocultural Anthropology
Daniel Lende
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Biocultural Anthropology Introduction Biocultural anthropology exists at the intersection of cultural and biological approaches. Given how con...
Bioethics
Mara Buchbinder
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
BioethicsIntroductionThe discipline of bioethics emerged in the United States in the 1960s as a response to several prominent controversies in medical...
Biological and Physical Anthropology
Janet M. Monge
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Biological and Physical Anthropology Introduction Biological anthropology, often referred to as physical anthropology, is one of the tradition...
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