Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology, Hardcover by Carrier, James G. (EDT);...

Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology, Hardcover by Carrier, James G. (EDT); Gewertz, Deborah B. (EDT), ISBN 1847883842, ISBN-13 9781847883841, Brand New, Free P&P in the UKThis book offers an overview of sociocultural anthropology with a focus on crises in the field and contemporary developments. The chapters contain individually authored essays and are organized into five sections on methodological and research orientations (culture, power, postmodernism, and political economy), the historical core of anthropology (kinship, economy, religion, politics, and exchange), issues since the 1960s (gender, development, migration, consumption, ecology, globalization, material culture), and regional studies (Melanesia, post socialist countries, Africa, South Asia, Amazonia, the US, and Europe). The final section is dedicated to presenting somewhat self-critical reflections on the institutional forces shaping and obfuscating social conditions of contemporary academic and "applied" anthropology. This means looking at funding sources, the demand for market-driven research, and related disciplines like cultural studies and sociology. Each section starts with an introduction that contextualizes the topics, but less as a summary than a preparatory review of their stakes. The contributors are mostly anthropologists from around the world with university teaching or research positions. Bloomsbury Academic is an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()