Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (Henry Holt Reference Book) FOUR VOLUMES
Contributors: David Levinson (Editor); Melvin Ember (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: July 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1486
ISBN-13: 9780805028775
Subjects: Social Science; Ethnology; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Archaeology / Anthropology; Reference; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology - General; Encyclopedias
Notes: Adaptation  -- Adolescence -- Adornment  -- Africa, Central -- Africa, East -- Africa, South -- Africa, West -- Age-sets, age grades, and age-generation systems -- Aging -- Agriculture & farming systems -- Alcohol & drugs -- Alliance, conflict & exogamy -- Altered states of consciousness -- Altruism -- American Anthropological Association -- American Association for the Advancement of Science -- American Association of Museums -- Animal domestication -- Anthropology & government -- Anthropology of science -- Applied anthropology -- Archaeology -- Architecture -- Archives -- Art -- Asia, Central -- Asia, East -- Asia, insular southeast -- Asia, mainland southeast  -- Asia, South -- Assimilation -- Australia-- 

Behavioral ecology -- Belief systems -- Biocultural anthropology -- Biological anthropology --  Biological diversity & race -- Birth -- Border studies -- Breastfeeding -- Bride-Price -- British Isles -- Business anthropology -- 

Cannibalism -- Careers in anthropology  -- Cargo (Fiesta) system -- Caribbean -- Carrying capacity -- Caste -- Caucasus -- Chiefdoms & nonindustrial states -- Child abuse & neglect -- Child development-- China -- Cities -- Clinical anthropology -- Cognitive anthropology -- Colonialism -- Color terminology -- Commercialization -- Componential analysis -- Computers & culture -- Computer uses in anthropology -- Conflict & aggression -- Conflict resolution -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Crafts -- Creationism -- Crime -- Critical anthropology -- Cross-cultural research -- Cultural control -- Cultural ecology -- Cultural evolution -- Cultural materialism -- Cultural relativism -- Cultural resource management -- Cultural Survival, Inc. -- Culture -- Culture change -- Culture History -- Cyberculture -- 

Dance -- Death & dying -- Decision theory -- Demography -- Descriptive (structural) linguistics --  Development anthropology -- Deviance -- Dialectology -- Diasporas -- Diffusion -- Disability / Disaster studies -- Discourse analysis -- 
Disease & culture -- Dowry -- Dreams -- 

Economic anthropology -- Educational anthropology -- Elite Studies -- Emic / Etic distinctions -- Environmental anthropology -- Ethics -- Ethnicity -- Ethnoarchaeology -- Ethnobotany -- Ethnocentrism -- Ethnocide -- Ethnogenesis -- Ethnographic film  -- Ethnography -- Ethnohistory -- Ethnology -- Ethnomedicine -- Ethnopharmacology -- Ethnopsychiatry -- Ethnozoology -- Europe, Eastern -- Europe, Southern -- Europe, Western -- Exchange -- Expressive culture -- 

Family & household structure -- Feasts & festivals -- Feminist anthropology -- Feuding -- Fieldwork -- Folklore -- Food & diet -- Four-field approach -- Functionalism -- 

Games -- Gangs -- Gender differences & roles -- Genetics -- Genital mutilation -- Genocide -- Gesture & movement -- Godparenthood -- Gossip -- Grief & mourning -- Group selection -- 

Hermeneutics -- Historical ecology -- Historical linguistics -- History of anthropology -- Homelessness -- Honor  -- Human evolution -- Human osteology -- Human population biology -- Human relations area files -- Human reproduction -- Human rights & advocacy anthropology -- Human universals -- Humanistic anthropology -- Humor -- Hunter-gatherer revisionism -- Hunting & gathering societies -- 

Incest -- Indigenous peoples -- Indigenous rights -- Industrial agriculture -- Infanticide -- Inheritance -- Initiation rites -- Intentional communities -- International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences -- Irrigation systems -- 

Judicial process -- 

Kin groups, residence & descent -- Kin selection -- Kinship terminology -- 

Language -- Leadership -- Legal anthropology -- Leisure -- Life history -- Linguistic anthropology -- Literacy -- Love -- 

Magic -- Maritime anthropology -- Market -- Marriage -- Martial arts -- Marxism  -- Mass media -- Material culture -- Mathematical models -- Mead-Freeman controversy -- Medical anthropology -- Medical ethics -- Melanesia -- Mesoamerica -- Mestizos -- Micronesia -- Middle East & North Africa -- Middleman minorities -- Migration -- Missionaries --  Modal personality & national character  -- Monarchy -- Money -- Multicultural education -- Museum anthropology -- Museum studies / museology / museography -- Music -- Myth -- 

Naming -- Narrative -- National Culture -- Nationalism -- Natural Selection -- Neofunctionalism -- Nepotism -- Network analysis -- Nomadism --  North America, Eskimo / Inuit -- North America, Native Americans -- Nursing -- Nutritional Anthropology -- 

Optimal foraging theory -- Oral tradition -- Organizational culture -- 

Pacific Island voyaging & navigation --  Pastoralism -- Patronage --  Peace & nonviolence -- Peasants -- Peripatetics -- Person & self -- Phenomenological anthropology -- Photography -- Plastic Arts -- Play -- Pluralism -- Pluralistic medical systems -- Plural marriages -- Poetics -- Policy anthropology -- Political anthropology -- Political development -- Political economy -- Political succession -- Polynesia -- Popular culture -- Postcolonialism -- Postmodernism -- Poverty -- Power -- Practicing anthropology -- Pregnancy -- Primate behavior -- Primate evolution -- Primitivism -- Prisons -- Pristine myth -- Psychoanalysis -- Psychological anthropology -- Purity & pollution -- 

Race relations -- Racism -- Ranked societies -- Reciprocity -- Redistribution -- Reflexive anthropology -- Refugees -- Regional analysis -- Reincarnation -- Religion -- Religious conversion -- Religious practitioners -- Remote sensing -- Resettlement -- Rhetoric -- Ritual -- Royal Anthropological Institute -- Rural health care -- 

Sacrifice -- Scandinavia -- School of American Research -- Scientific anthropology -- Self-determination -- Semiotics -- Settlement patterns -- Sexual behavior -- Sexual division of labor -- Sexual orientation -- Sexual selection -- Shamanism -- Siberia -- Slavery -- Social control -- Social impact assessment -- Social movements -- Social stratification -- Society for Cross-Cultural Research -- Sociobiology -- Sociolinguistics -- Sorcery & witchcraft -- South America, highland -- South America, savanna -- South America, tropical forest -- Soviet Union & Russian cultural anthropology -- Sports -- Spousal violence -- State -- Statistical methods -- Structuralism & poststructuralism -- Sustainable agriculture -- Symbolic anthropology -- 

Taboo -- Tasaday controversy -- Taxation -- Teaching of anthropology -- Technology & culture -- Territoriality -- Textiles -- Thick description -- Time allocation -- Tourism -- Trade -- Tragedy of the commons -- Transnationalism -- Tribes -- 

Urban anthropology -- 

Visual anthropology -- Voluntary associations -- 

War -- Wenner-Gren Foundation -- Wild yam question -- Work -- World religions -- World-system theory -- Worldview -- Writing culture -- Writing systems -- 

Appendix, anthropological periodicals.