Bennett Reference GN 11 S48 3. Encyclopedias are sources of histories and background information on various subject disciplines. This work contains articles, written by various authors, on the three subject areas mentioned in the sub-title. This encyclopedia encompasses the full circle of anthropological knowledge. It is an encyclopedia of anthropology, not an encyclopedia about anthropology.
Cultural anthropology is the most diverse and eclectic of all the social and behavioral disciplines.
This encyclopedia is a compendium of knowledge produced by and relevant to cultural anthropology. It attempts to cover all approaches, methods, concepts, and topics that are central to cultural anthropology. Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology . This work is a guide and an introduction, a map which will help readers find their way around the anthropological landscape. It is not an authority set up to dictate anthropologically correct knowledge about the world.