Introduction to Social Anthropology - Hendry, Joy
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This refreshingly clear and easy-to-read text offers the perfect introduction to social anthropology for anyone approaching the subject for the first time. It is carefully structured so that one chapter builds on the next and it covers all the core topics in an even-handed and illuminating manner, introducing the reader to the depth of divergent views on all the most basic subjects - food, hygiene, gift-exchange, rites of passage, symbolism, religion, politics and the environment. Combining an abundance of unobtrusive reference and further reading for the serious student with an immensely…mehr

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This refreshingly clear and easy-to-read text offers the perfect introduction to social anthropology for anyone approaching the subject for the first time. It is carefully structured so that one chapter builds on the next and it covers all the core topics in an even-handed and illuminating manner, introducing the reader to the depth of divergent views on all the most basic subjects - food, hygiene, gift-exchange, rites of passage, symbolism, religion, politics and the environment. Combining an abundance of unobtrusive reference and further reading for the serious student with an immensely readable and engaging writing style, this book offers a compelling introduction to a growing and exciting subject.

Table of contents:
Introduction
Seeing the World
Disgusting, Forbidden and Unthinkable
Gifts, Exchange and Reciprocity
The Ritual Round
Society: A Set of Symbols
Beauty and Bounty, Treasure and Trophies
Cosmology I: Religion, Magic and Mythology
Cosmology II: Witchcraft, Shamanism and Syncretism
Law, Order and Social Control
The Art of Politics
Family, Kinship and Marriage
Survival, Economics and the Environment
Filmography
Index of Anthropological and Other Technical Terms
General Index
Autorenporträt
JOY HENDRY is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. She specialises in the study of Japan, but has also lived in Morocco, Canada and Mexico, and made recent study visits to China, Indonesia, Nepal and Uzbekistan. She is the author of many books, including ‘Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies’.