The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology

Lene Pedersen, Lisa Cliggett, Lene Pedersen, Lisa Cliggett, Editor

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781529703870
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781529756418
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is the first instalment of The SAGE Handbook of the Social Sciences series and encompasses major specialities as well as key interdisciplinary themes relevant to the field. Globally, societies are facing major upheaval and change, and the social sciences are fundamental to the analysis of these issues, as well as the development of strategies for addressing them. This handbook provides a rich overview of the discipline and has a future focus whilst using international theories and examples throughout. The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is an essential resource for social scientists globally and contains a rich body of chapters on all major topics relevant to the field, whilst also presenting a possible road map for the future of the field.

 

Part 1: Foundations

Part 2: Focal Areas

Part 3: Urgent Issues

Part 4: Short Essays: Contemporary Critical Dynamics

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• International Advisory Board
• Series: The SAGE Handbook of the Social Sciences
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Foundations, Focal Areas, Urgent Issues, and Critical Dynamics
• Part I Foundations
• 1 Culture
• 2 Race and Ethnicity
• 3 Sex, Gender, and Sexual Subjectivity: Feminist and Queer Anthropology
• 4 Kinship and New Social Forms: Kindred Politics, Biotechnology, and Feminist Activism
• 5 Paradoxes of Personhood
• 6 Fieldwork, Ethnography, and Knowledge Construction
• 7 Cross-Cultural Comparative Commitments
• 8 Engaged Anthropology
• 9 Anthropological Theories I: Structure and Agency
• 10 Anthropology Theories II: Systems and Complexity
• 11 Humanistic Anthropologies: Diverse Weavings about the Many Ways to Be Human
• 12 Anthropological Representation, Epistemology, and Ethics
• Part II Focal Areas
• 13 Environmental Anthropology
• 14 Anthropology of Economy and Development
• 15 Urban Anthropology
• 16 Locating the ‘Rural’ in Anthropology
• 17 Maritime Anthropology
• 18 Political Anthropology
• 19 Anthropology of Law
• 20 Business Anthropology
• 21 Medical Anthropology
• 22 Anthropologies of Religion
• 23 Anthropologies of Cultural Heritage1
• 24 Talking To Ai: An Anthropological Encounter with Artificial Intelligence
• Part III Urgent Issues
• 25 Inequality and Precarity
• 26 On the Merits of Not Solving Climate Change
• 27 Food Systems
• 28 Governance and Democratization
• 29 Mobility
• 30 Governing Lives in the Times of Global Health
• Part IV Short Essays: Contemporary Critical Dynamics
• 31 Indigeneity: Reflections in Four Voices
• 32 Race and Anti-Black Racism in the African Diaspora of the United States
• 33 Common Cause with Conservation
• 34 New Paradoxes in Human Rights
• 35 Populism and Moral Economy
• Conclusion: ‘Stretching’ into the Future and Expansion toward Inclusion, Consilience, and Co-Equality
• Index