Product Description

With full cross-referencing and revised further reading highlighting the latest writings in Social and Cultural Anthropology, this is the ideal resource for anyone studying or teaching this subject.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #514373 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

Review

Praise for the first edition:

'Well written, full of ideas, often interesting and provocative. It should be of use to both teachers and advanced students of anthropology.' - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

From the Back Cover

Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field.

Now fully updated, the second edition includes entries on:

• Power
• The State
• Human Rights
• Hybridity
• Alterity
• Cosmopolitanism
• The Body
• Violence
• Gender
• Cybernetics

With full cross-referencing and revised further reading to point students towards the latest writings in Social and Cultural Anthropology, this is a superb reference resource for anyone studying or teaching in this area.

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews; he has also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice. He is the author of numerous books on anthropology, including Transcendent Individual: Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology (1997) and, I am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power (2003). Both are published by Routledge.

Joanna Overing is Professor Emeritus within the Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews. She is the author of many publications on Amazonia and on anthropological theory. She is the editor of the volume Reason and Morality (Routledge 1985), and also, with Alan Passes, of The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia.

About the Author
Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing are both Professors of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Nigel Rapport is the author of numerous books on anthropology, including Transcendent Individual: Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology (1997) and, with Anthony P Cohen, Questions of Consciousness (1995). Both are published by Routledge. Joanna Overing is the author of many publications on Amazonia and on anthropological theory. She is the editor of the volume Reason and Morality (Routledge, 1985), and also, with Alan Passes, of The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia (Routledge: 2000).

Customer Reviews

An indispensable resource!
Rapport and Overing's "Social and cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts" is a superb reference tool for anyone in any discipline. It has a widespread use in areas such as psychology, biology, social sciences and anthropology. It gives a clear and full definition of many of the most important concepts we use in regard to society and cultures. It gives not only a definition of a concept but also its application and outlines those associated with that concept. A must have for anyone in the social science field.