1st Edition

Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Edited By Vered Amit Copyright 2004
    642 Pages
    by Routledge

    640 Pages
    by Routledge

    Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed entries from a global team of contributors and offers an important, and fascinating overview of the historical and contemporary reach of anthropological research.

    Abu-Lughod, Lila; Appadurai, Arjun; Archetti, Eduardo; Ardener, Edwin; Ardener, Shirley; Arensberg, Conrad M.; Arizpe, Lourdes; Arutyonov, Sergiej; Babcock, Barbara; Balandier, G.; Barbeau, Marius; Barley, Nigel; Baroja, Julio Caro; Bartolomé, Leopoldo; Basso, Keith; Bastide, Roger; Bateson, Gregory; Bauman, Gerd; Bauman, Richard; Beattie, John; Beckett, Jeremy; Beidelman, Thomas; Beltrán, Gonzalo Aguirre; Benedict, Ruth; Berlin, Brent; Berndt, Catherine Helen; Berndt, Ronald Murray; Bestard-Camps, Joan; Bibeau, Gilles; Blacking, John; Bloch, Maurice; Blok, Anton; Boas, Franz; Bogoraz-Tan, Valdimir; Boissevain, Jeremy; Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo; Borneman, John; Bright, William; Bromley, Yurij; Bruner, Edward; Bunzel, Ruth; Butovskaya, Marina; Carrier, James; Carrithers, Michael; Catedra, Maria; Chagnon, Napoleon; Clarke, Margaret; Clifford, James; Cohen, Anthony P.; Cohn, Bernard; Colson, Elizabeth; Conklin, Harold; Coppet, Daniel de; Corin, Ellen E.; Cushing, Frank; Czaplicka, Maria; DaMatta, Robert; Darnell, Regna; Das, Veena; De Laguna, Frederica; Densmore, Frances; Descola, Philippe; Dominguez, Virginia; Donnan, Hastings; Douglas, Mary; Dozier, Edward; Driessen, Henk; Du Bois, Cora; Duerr, Hans-Peter; Dumont, Louis; Dwyer, Kevin; Dyck, Noel; Eggan, Fred; Elkin, A.P.; Elwert, Georg; Epstein, A.L.; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland; Esterik, Penny van; Evans-Pritchard, Evans; Fabian, Johannes; Feit, Harvey; Ferguson, James; Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock; Firth, Raymond; Fishman, Joshua A.; Foner, Nancy; Fortes, Meyer; Foster, George; Frazer, James G.; Friedl, Ernestine; Frobenius, Leo; Frykman, Jonas; Fukui, Katsuyoshi; Gamio, Manuel; Geertz, Clifford; Gefou-Madianou, Dimitra; Gell, Alfred; Gellner, Ernest; Gennep, Arnold van; Geschiere, Peter; Gingrich, Andre; Ginsburg, Faye; Gledhill, John; Gluckman, Max; Godelier, Maurice; Good, Byron J.; Goodale, Jane; Griaule, Marcel; Gullestad, Marianne; Gulliver, Philip H.; Gupta, Akhil; Gurevich, Aron; Hallowell, A. Irving: Hammond-Tooke, David; Handelman, Don; Handler, Richard; Hann, Chris; Hannerz, Ulf; Harries-Jones, Peter; Helm, June; Hermitte, Esther; Herskovitz, Melville J.; Herzfeld, Michael; Heusch, Luc de; Hewitt, J.N.B.; Hill, Jane; Hoebel, E.A.; Holy, Ladislav; Howell, Signe; Hymes, Dell; Imanishi, Kinji; Ingold, Tim; Irimoto, Takashi; Izumi, Seiichi; Jakobson, Roman; James, Allison; James, Wendy; Jenness, Diamond; Jensen, Adolf E.; Kaberry, Phyllis; Kapferer, Bruce; Karp, Ivan; Keesing, Roger; Khazanov, Anatoly Michailovich; Kindaichi, Kyosuke; Klein, Alan M.; Kluckhohn, Clyde; Kon, Igor Semenovich; Kopytoff, Igor; Kramer, Fritz W.; Kroeber, Alfred; Kryukov, Mikhail; Kuper, Adam; Lamphere, Louise; Layton, Robert; Leach, Edmund R.; Lee, Richard B.; Leiris, Michel; Leslie, Charles; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Lewis, Oscar; Lindenbaum, Shirley; Linton, Ralph; Little, Kenneth; Llobera, Joseph; Lock, Margaret; Löfgren, Ovar; Lomnitz, Larissa; Lotman, Jurij; Lounsbury, Floyd; Lowie, R.H.; Luhrmann, Tanya M.; Lurie, Nancy O.; MacAloon, John; Mach, Zdzislaw; Maine, Henry; Malinowski, Bronislaw; Martin, Emily Ahearn; Marx, Emmanuel; Mayer, Adrian; Mead, Margaret; Medicine, Bea; Meillassoux, Claude; Meletinskiy, Eleasar; Merlan, Francesca; Miller, Daniel; Mintz, Sydney; Miyaoka, Osahito; Mooney, James; Moore, Henrietta; Morgan, Louis Henry; Morphy, Howard; Mühlmann, Wilhelm; Myers, Fred; Nakane, Chie; Narayan, Kirin; Obayashi, Taryo; Obrebski, Jozef; Ohtsuka, Ryutaro; Oka, Masao; Okely, Judith; Oliveira, Roberto Cardoso de; Oliver, Douglas; Olwig, Karen Fog; Opitz, Michael; Opler, Morris; Palerm, Angel; Palmeira, Moacir; Parry, Jonathan; Parsons, Elsie Clews; Peacock, James L.; Pels, Peter; Peña, Guillermo de la; Powdermaker, Hortense; Powell, John Wesley; Rabinow, Paul; Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.; Radin, Paul; Rappaport, Roy; Rapport, Nigel; Redfield, Robert; Ribeiro, Darcy; Rodman, Margaret; Rottenburg, Richard; Sahlins, Marshall; Salisbury, Richard F.; Sansom, Basil; Sapir, Edward; Scheper-Hughes, Nancy

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    A very useful resource.... Recommended.–Choice, September 2004

    This work is a timely and welcome complement to the other major biographical compilations extant for this discipline.
    –American Reference Books Annual, 2005