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, this third edition includes entries on:

• Material Culture
• Environment
• Human Rights
• Hybridity
• Alterity
• Cosmopolitanism
• Ethnography
• Applied Anthropology
• 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.