The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology

Richard Fardon is Professor of West African Anthropology and Head of the Doctoral School at SOAS, University of London. He writes as a social anthropologist and an ethnographer of West Africa with wide interests that include art, intellectual history, religion, politics, and identity. Olivia Harris was a Professor of Anthropology at LSE and served as head of the Anthropology Department from 2005 to 2008. Trevor H.J. Marchand was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and is recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Rivers Memorial Medal (2014). He was trained as an architect (McGill), received a PhD in anthropology (SOAS), and qualified as a fine woodworker at London's Building Crafts College (2007). During the past 25 years, Marchand has conducted fieldwork with craftspeople in Nigeria, Yemen, Mali, and London. His research has been supported by prestigious grants from the British Academy, the Economic & Social Research Council, SOAS, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the Canadian International Development Agency. His books include Craftwork as Problem Solving (2016), Making Knowledge (2010), The Masons of Djenne (2009), Knowledge in Practice (2009, with K. Kresse), and Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen (2001). The Masons of Djenne was winner of three international prizes, including the African Studies Association Herskovits Award. Marchand's documentary films include The Art of Andrew Omoding (2016, for the UK "Radical Craft" Exhibition), The Intelligent Hand (2015), Masons of Djenne (2013, for the Smithsonian Institution), and Future of Mud (2007, with S. Vogel). He has curated exhibitions for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (Mud Masons of Mali, 2013 - present), the Royal Institute of British Architects (Djenne: African City of Mud, 2010), and the Brunei Gallery in London (Yemen: Space, Place & Architecture, 2017). Marchand's forthcoming monograph is titled The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work. The motivation behind his research is to challenge popular ideas about the value and intelligence of skilled craftsmanship. Professor Cris Shore is Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland, NZ. Professor Veronica Strang is Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. Richard Ashby Wilson is the Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and Professor of Law and Anthropology at UConn Law School, and founding director of the Human Rights Institute at University of Connecticut, US.

VOLUME ONE Preface: The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth - John Gledhill and James Fairhead Foreword: Thinking Anthropologically, About British Social Anthropology - John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff Introduction: Flying Theory, Grounded Method - Richard Fardon PART ONE: INTERFACES - Edited by Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson Introduction: Anthropology's Interdisciplinary Connections - Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson Anthropology and Linguistics - Alessandro Duranti Anthropology and Psychology - Christina Toren Anthropology of Biomedicine and Bioscience - Sarah Franklin Anthropology and Art - Arnd Schneider Anthropology, Media and Cultural Studies - Kevin Latham Anthropology and Public Policy - Cris Shore Anthropology and Law - Sally Engle Merry Anthropology and History - Jane K. Cowan Anthropology and Archaeology - Julian Thomas Anthropology, Economics and Development Studies - Keith Hart Anthropology and the Political - Jennifer Curtis and Jonathan Spencer Anthropology and Religious Studies - Martin Mills Anthropology and Museums - Brian Durrans Anthropology and Gender Studies - Henrietta L. Moore Anthropology and the Postcolonial - Richard Werbner Anthropology and Literature - C.W. Watson PART TWO: PLACES - Edited by Mark Nuttall Introduction: Place, Region, Culture, History: From Area Studies to a Globalized World - Mark Nuttall The Circumpolar North: Locating the Arctic and Sub-Arctic - Mark Nuttall Replacing Europe - Sarah Green Retroversion, Introversion, Extraversion: Three Aspects of African Anthropology - David Pratten Refiguring the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa - Glenn Bowman Southwest and Central Asia: Comparison, Integration or Beyond? - Magnus Marsden South Asia: Intimacy and Identities, Politics and Poverty - Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery Modernization and its Aftermath: The Anthropology of Japan - D.P. Martinez The Emerging Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Emerging China - J.S. Eades Archipelagic Southeast Asia - Roy Ellen Australasian Contrasts - Nicolas Peterson, Don Gardner and James Urry Australia - Nicolas Peterson Melanesia - Don Gardner New Zealand/Aotearoa - James Urry Two Indigenous Americas - Kathleen Lowrey and Pauline Turner Strong North America - Pauline Turner Strong South America - Kathleen Lowrey North and Latin American National Societies from a Continental Perspective - John Gledhill and Peter Wade Migration and Other Forms of Movement - Vered Amit The Cosmopolitan World - Nigel Rapport The Indigenous World - Robert K. Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli VOLUME TWO PART THREE: METHODS - Edited by the late Olivia Harris and Veronica Strang Introduction: Issues of Method - Richard Fardon and Veronica Strang Fieldwork Since the 1980s: Total Immersion and its Discontents - Janet Carsten Between Routine and Rupture: The Archive as Field Event - Tristan Platt The Role of Language in Ethnographic Method - Susan Gal The Ethnographic Interview in an Age of Globalization - Joshua Barker Interpreting Texts and Performances - Karin Barber Blurred Visions: Reflecting Visual Anthropology - Rupert Cox and Christopher Wright Artefacts in Anthropology - Liana Chua and Amiria Salmond Knowledge and Experimental Practice: A Dialogue Between Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies - Penelope Harvey Twenty-first Century Ethics for Audited Anthropologists - Nayanika Mookherjee Ethics Out of the Ordinary - Michael Lambek Researching Zones of Conflict and War - Paul Richards Conflicts and Compromises? Experiences of Doing Anthropology at the Interface of Public Policy - Tim Allen and Melissa Parker From Participant-Observation to Participant-Collaboration: Some Observations on Participatory-cum-Collaborative Approaches - Paul Sillitoe Comparative Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology Today - Andre Gingrich PART FOUR: FUTURES - Edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand Introduction: Anthropologies to Come - Trevor H.J. Marchand Section 4.1: Neo-Darwinism, Biology and the Brain Sciences Anthropology and Neo-Darwinism - Robin I.M. Dunbar Cognition, Evolution and the Future of Social Anthropology - Harvey Whitehouse Neuroanthropology - Greg Downey Knowledge in Hand: Explorations of Brain, Hand and Tool - Trevor H.J. Marchand Section 4.2: After Development: Environment, Food, Energy, Disaster Environment and Society: Political Ecologies and Moral Futures - James Fairhead and Melissa Leach Anthropological Encounters with Economic Development and Biodiversity Conservation - Laura M. Rival New Directions in the Anthropology of Food - Jakob A. Klein, Johan Pottier and Harry G. West Water, Land and Territory - Veronica Strang The Anthropology of Disaster Aftermath - Edward Simpson Section 4.3: Demographics, Health and the Transforming Body Demographies in Flux - Sophie Day New Medical Anthropology - Helen Lambert The Anthropology of Drugs - Axel Klein Transforming Bodies: The Embodiment of Sexual and Gender Difference - Andrea Cornwall Section 4.4: New Technologies and Materialities New Materials and New Technologies: Science, Design and the Challenge to Anthropology - Susanne K chler Anthropology and Emerging Technologies: Science, Subject and Symbiosis - Ron Eglash From Media Anthropology to the Anthropology of Mediation - Dominic Boyer Anthropology in the New Millennium - Christopher Pinney Afterword: A Last Word on Futures - Marilyn Strathern

This handbook valuably frames the perspectives of scholars whose commitment to empirical field research has established them as voices at once critical and authoritative, and who here tackle the discipline's compelling topical issues and anticipate its emergent. challenges Michael Herzfeld Harvard University This is a must have volume for scholars and students of anthropology alike. All the contributors are significant anthropologists in their field and they guide the reader brilliantly through the particular fields of their expertise. This is a book which covers both the enormous breadth of anthropology and the challenging ways it addresses critical issues of the contemporary world. Bruce Kapferer University of Bergen Cutting anthropology up into as many jig-saw pieces as possible is the counter-intuitive way the editors puzzle out a coherent and convincing picture of unity in the discipline today. Richard G. Fox President Emeritus, Wenner-Gren Foundation What the editors and contributors have achieved here is considerable. By taking the pulse of 'British social anthropology,' they have illustrated how unified and simultaneously how diversified anthropology has become. It is no longer divided simply by historical or geographic tradition (British versus American) but has grown into an exciting, mature, and introspective discipline that, perhaps most importantly of all, has had profound and beneficial effects on other disciplines while being profoundly and beneficially affected by them. It is gratifying to see how much anthropology has to offer and that scholars and professionals outside anthropology have begun to welcome that offer. Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database