The Routledge companion to contemporary anthropology / edited by Simon Coleman, Susan B. Hyatt and Ann Kingsolver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, Susan L., author.

Contributor:

Hyatt, Susan B., editor.

Kingsolver, Ann, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Companion to contemporary anthropology

Contemporary anthropology

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2016].

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is an invaluable guide and major reference source for students and scholars alike, introducing its readers to key contemporary perspectives and approaches within the field. Written by an experienced international team of contributors, with an interdisciplinary range of essays, this collection provides a powerful overview of the transformations currently affecting anthropology. The volume both addresses the concerns of the discipline and comments on its construction through texts, classroom interactions, engagements with various publics, and changing relations with other academic subjects. Persuasively demonstrating that a number of key contemporary issues can be usefully analyzed through an anthropological lens, the contributors cover important topics such as globalization, law and politics, collaborative archaeology, economics, religion, citizenship and community, health, and the environment. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is a fascinating examination of this lively and constantly evolving discipline.

Contents:

part PART I Introduction

chapter 1 Introduction to an engaging discipline: The challenge of creating a companion to contemporary anthropology / Simon Coleman

part PART II Conceptualizing the field in/of anthropology

chapter 2 Engaging theory in the new millennium / Faye V. Harrison

chapter 3 Participating, observing, witnessing / Deborah Reed-Danahay

chapter 4 Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalism / Patrick Neveling

chapter 5 Anthropology and the internet / Anna Stewart

chapter 6 Hand in hand: Homelessness, heritage and collaborative approaches to the material past / Rachael Kiddey

chapter 7 Communicating anthropology: Writing, screening, and exhibiting culture / Paul Basu

chapter 8 Teaching anthropological theory in neoliberal times / Elizabeth Chin

part PART III Transforming disciplinary conversations

chapter 9 Doing and being: Process, essence, and hierarchy in making kin

chapter 10 “Religion” after religion, “ritual” after ritual / Jon Bialecki

chapter 11 Language, gender, and desire in performance / Peter C. Haney

chapter 12 Selves and codified bodies / Subhadra Channa

chapter 13 Law and politics: An anthropological history, and research and practice among vulnerable populations / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

chapter 14 Objectifying economies: Contemporary themes in the anthropology of economic knowledge and practice / Daromir Rudnyckyj

chapter 15 Research, representation, redemption, and repatriation: Archaeology and community relationships in 21st-century America / Joe Watkins

chapter 16 Critical biocultural anthropology: A model for anthropological integration / Thomas Leatherman

part PART IV Anthropology in conversation with other fields

chapter 17 Anthropology and science / Jonathan Marks

chapter 18 Joined at the head: Anthropology, geography and the environment / Michael J. Watts

chapter 19 Entangled subjects and art objects / Shelly Errington

chapter 20 Psychological anthropology: An awkward hybrid? / Andrew Beatty

chapter 21 Whither anthropology in public policy?: Reflections from India / Soumendra Mohan Patnaik

chapter 22 Health and anthropology in the era of anthropogenic climatic and environmental change / Merrill Singer

chapter 23 Immersive politics and the ethnographic encounter: Anthropology and political science / Joseph MacKay

chapter 24 Social movements as process / Marianne Maeckelbergh

chapter 25 Ethnography as aprendizaje: Growing and using collaborative knowledge with the People’s Produce Project in San Diego / A. L. Anderson-Lazo

chapter 26 Interdisciplinary approaches to cultural citizenship and migration / Mattia Fumanti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-74395-7

1-317-59066-X

1-317-59067-8

9781315743950

OCLC:

964527743