Anthropology Senior Seminar

Comprising over 400 entries, this dictionary definitions for a range of concepts relating to cultural anthropology, as well as important findings and intellectual figures in the field.

With over 400 entries, this dictionary covers key terms from social research methodology, including practical approaches as well as more conceptual terminology.

Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some figures considered important in anthropology. Names discussed include Zora Neale Hurston, Sherry Ortner, and Margaret Mead.

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology features contributions from a team of over 800 international scholars. Over 1,000 entries, ranging from concise summaries to longer writings, present the reader with in-depth discussions of hundreds of key topics, including: ecology, human evolution, gender, health, language and education, kinship, politics, and power, as well as biographical entries of many of the world's most influential founding anthropologists. Organized alphabetically and written for both the specialist and the general reader, the Encyclopedia is a landmark reference resource for students and scholars engaged within the broad and dynamic field of anthropology, and those studying and working within the related disciplines of psychology, medicine, religious studies, and sociology.

The second edition of The Oxford Companion to Archaeology offers over 700 entries covering historical archaeology, the development of archaeology as a field of study, and the ways the discipline works to explain the past. In addition to these theoretical entries, other entries describe major excavations, discoveries, and innovations, attending to recent developments in related fields. Entries include bibliographies and lists of linked related terms.

Features 150 definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory, with a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that includes the texts in which many of these terms originated Each entry includes the origins of the term, where traceable; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning; and examples of the term's use in literary-cultural texts. Incorporates terms and concepts from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, science, economics, globalization studies, politics, and philosophy.

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction is a comprehensive overview of the topics, approaches, and trajectories in the anthropological study of human reproduction. The book brings together work from across the discipline of anthropology, with contributions by established and emerging scholars in archaeological, biological, linguistic, and sociocultural anthropology. Across these areas of research, consideration is given to the contexts, conditions, and contingencies that mark and shape the experiences of reproduction as always gendered, classed, and racialized.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies ranges across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed. Sections include: Indigenous Sovereignty, Indigeneity in the 21st Century, Indigenous Epistemologies, The Field of Indigenous Studies, and Global Indigeneity.