The Ashgate research companion to anthropology / edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stewart, Pamela J., editor.

Strathern, Andrew, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Ashgate research companion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Research.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology--Fieldwork.

Physical Description:

xiii, 426 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2015]

Contents:

Introduction / Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart

Religion, experience and change

Healing / Geoffrey Samuel

Embodiment, performance, and healing / Anne Sigfrid Grønseth

Mortuary rituals / Satsuki Kawano

Ritual, myth and creativity

Anthropology, dreams and creativity / Katie Glaskin

Sacrifice / Kathryn McClymond

Charisma and myth / Raphael Falco

Work, play and gender

Secular rituals / Margit Warburg

Anthropology of sport / John Traphagan

Gender / Victoria Goddard

Gendered spaces in anthropology / Susan Rasmussen

Studies of world religions

Christianity / Simon Coleman

The anthropology of islam / David W. Montgomery

Perspectives on violence and globalization

Ethnographies of political violence / Sami Hermez

Warfare and ritual in anthropology / Bryan Hanks

Globalization and its contradictions / Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Emergent themes

Languages in change / Jonathan Hill and Juan Luis Rodriguez

Indigenous knowledge / Paul Sillitoe

Philosophy in anthropology / Nigel Rapport

Anthropology and the Iliad / Margo Kitts

Disaster anthropology / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0754677036

9780754677031

OCLC:

905449971

Publisher Number:

99963766712