This is the first multi-volume collection of writings on
sociocultural anthropology, the field of anthropology which is
concerned with how people in different places live in and
understand the world around them. It covers the field's core and
changing objectives and methodologies, how context shapes how
people make a living and reproduce, how people organize
relationships with other people as well as with animals and the
environment, how people communicate with other people, and ongoing
change in how people make sense of where they live, with whom they
interact, and their sense of meaning. Taken together, the
collection of 88 articles maps the development of sociocultural
anthropology from its beginnings in the mid-19th century through to
recent debates on the rise of new methods, increased attention to
reflexivity and intersubjectivity, and the ongoing 'critique of
anthropology' and the efforts to decolonize it.The four volumes are
arranged thematically and each is separately introduced. In Volume
1, contributions lay out some of the early and enduring motivations
of sociocultural anthropologists: who are the world's peoples? From
the effort to describe non-Western cultures, entries move to
critiques of early sociocultural anthropology, for example, from
feminist anthropologists and indigenous anthropologists, as well as
applied anthropologists who saw a need for sociocultural
anthropologists to be involved in community development. Volume 2
focuses on studies of livelihoods and reproduction and health.
Volume 3 looks at forms of social relations and organization as
defined by kinship as well as non-kin relations. Volume 4 includes
entries that look more directly at language and other forms of
communication, religion and spiritual beliefs, and expressive
culture and performance. The final articles offer insights about
how tumultuous changes, such as refugee movements and environmental
change are affecting people around the world, and how they are
making sense of these changes.The four volumes are energized by the
inclusion, and often juxtaposition, of classic texts by Sir Edmund
Leach, Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, Ruth Benedict, Margaret
Mead, Lucy Mair, Claude Levi Strauss, Marshall Sahlins, and Maurice
Godelier, mixed in with writings by contemporary authors such as
Lila Abu-Lughod, Seth Holmes, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Tom
Boellstorff, Susan Greenhalgh, George Marcus, and Arjun Appadurai.
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