Social and Cultural Anthropology for the 21st Century - Connected Worlds (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

Social and Cultural Anthropology for the 21st Century: Connected Worlds is a lively, accessible, and wide-ranging introduction to socio-cultural anthropology for undergraduate students. It draws on a wealth of ethnographic examples to showcase how anthropological fieldwork and analysis can help us understand the contemporary world in all its diversity and complexity.

The book is addressed to a twenty-first-century readership of students who are encountering social and cultural anthropology for the first time. It provides an overview of the key debates and methods that have historically defined the discipline and of the approaches and questions that shape it today. In addition to classic research areas such as kinship, exchange, and religion, topics that are pressing concerns for our times are covered, such as climate change, economic crisis, social media, refugees, sexuality, and race. Foregrounding ethnographic stories from all over the world to illustrate global connections and their effects on local lives, the book combines a focus on history with urgent present-day social issues. It will equip students with the analytical tools that they need to negotiate a world characterized by unprecedented cross-cultural contact, ever-changing communicative technologies and new forms of uncertainty.

The book is an essential resource for introductory courses in social and cultural anthropology and as a refresher for more advanced students.

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Society and culture in the 21st century

2 Anthropologists at work

3 Kinship

4 Marriage

5 Gender, sex, and sexuality

6 The body

7 The senses

8 The life cycle

9 Gifts and exchange

10 Religion

11 Rank, caste, and social class

12 State, nation, and citizenship

13 Mobility and transnationalism

14 Media and the technological transformation of social relations

15 The environment

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2017
Authors:	Niko Besnier • Marzia Balzani
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	316
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-82912-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-82912-9
Barcode:	9781138829121

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