Social and Cultural Anthropology

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
    By John Monaghan, Peter Just

    But the most influential of all such distinctions is Max Weber's idea of rationalization. Institutions are organized around the tasks they perform rather than on the social relations contained within them. In a way, Weber's notion of ...

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    By Nigel Rapport, Joanna Overing

    ... and/or moral loading of the classifications (also cf. Teixero-Pinto 1997;Viveiros de Castro 1992; Belaunde 1992). For instance Stephen Kidd writes about Enxet of Paraguay that: Their understanding of why they act as they do centres ...

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    By Nigel Rapport, Joanna Overing

    Glassman , B. ( 1975 ) Anti - Semitic Stereotypes without Jews , Detroit : Wayne State University Press . Gluckman , M. ( 1956 ) Custom and Conflict in Africa , Oxford : Blackwell . ( 1959 ) Custom and Conflict in Africa , Glencoe , Ill ...

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
    By John, John Monaghan, Peter Just

    This book on social and cultural anthropology combines an account of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with examples of anthropologists at work.

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    By Nigel Rapport, Joanna Overing

    Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Conceptsis the ideal introduction to this discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority.

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    By Nigel Rapport

    Staples, J. (2007) Peculiar People, Amazing Lives: Leprosy, Social Exclusion and Community Making in South India, Delhi: Orient Longman. Stein, M. (1964) The Eclipse of Community, New York: Harper and Row. Steiner, G. (1975) After Babel ...

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    By Nigel Rapport

    "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, this third edition includes entries on:Material ...

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
    By Nigel Rapport

    Now fully updated, this third edition includes entries on: Material Culture Environment Human Rights Hybridity Alterity Cosmopolitanism Ethnography Applied Anthropology Gender Cybernetics With full cross-referencing and revised further ...