ISBN:
9781472459435
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Ashgate research companion
Parallel Title:
Print version Ashgate research companion to anthropology
DDC:
301.072
Keywords:
Anthropology Fieldwork
;
Anthropology Methodology
;
Anthropology Research
;
Anthropology Fieldwork
;
Anthropology Methodology
;
Anthropology Research
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics in which its practitioners engage, many of the broad themes and topics at the heart of anthropological thought remain perennially vital, such as understanding order and change, diversity and continuity, and conflict and co-operation in the reproduction of social life. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, the contributors to this volume provide us with thoughtful and fruitful ways of thinking about a number of contemporary and long-standing arenas of work where both established and more recent r
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction
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Healing
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Embodiment, performance, and healing
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Mortuary rituals
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Ritual, myth and creativity ; Anthropology, dreams and creativity
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Sacrifice
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Charisma and myth
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Work, play and gender ; Secular rituals
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Anthropology of sport
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Gender
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Gendered spaces in anthropology
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Studies of world religions ; Christianity
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The anthropology of islam
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Perspectives on violence and globalization ; Ethnographies of political violence
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Warfare and ritual in anthropology
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Globalization and its contradictions
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Emergent themes ; Languages in change
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Indigenous knowledge
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Philosophy in anthropology
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Anthropology and the Iliad
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Disaster anthropology
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