Social and Cultural Anthropology The Key Concepts

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.Rapport, Nigel is the author of 'Social and Cultural Anthropology The Key Concepts', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415367516 and ISBN 0415367514.