Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 041520318X ISBN 13 : 9780415203180

Editeur : Routledge, 1998

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Alan Barnard studied at George Washington, McMaster and London Universities and is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He has done extensive fieldwork and is author of Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Research Practices in the Study of Kinship (with Anthony Good, Academic Press, 1984), and numerous articles on hunter-gatherers, kinship and the history of anthropology.
Jonathan Spencer studied anthropology at the Universities of Edinburgh, Chicago and Oxford and is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He has carried out extensive research in Sri Lanka and is the author of A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble (Oxford University Press, 1990) and many articles on politics, nationalism and religion.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This is the only encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology to cover fully the many important areas of overlap between anthropology and related disciplines. This work also covers key terms, ideas and people, thus eliminating the need to refer to other books for specific definitions or biographies.
Special features include:
* over 230 substantial entries on every major idea, individual and sub-discipline of social and cultural anthropology
* over 100 international contributors
* a glossary of more than 600 key terms and ideas.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 041520318X
• ISBN 13: 9780415203180
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 688