Mark Nuttall & Richard Fardon 
The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology 

In two volumes, the
SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology. With 80 authors, contributing more than 60 chapters, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date statement of research in Social Anthropology available and the essential point of departure for future projects.

The Handbook is divided into four sections:

-Part I: Interfaces examines Social Anthropology′s disciplinary connections, from Art and Literature to Politics and Economics, from Linguistics to Biomedicine, from History to Media Studies.

– Part II: Places examines place, region, culture, and history, from regional, area studies to a globalized world

-Part III: Methods examines issues of method; from archives to war zones, from development projects to art objects, and from ethics to comparison

-Part IV: Futures anticipates anthropologies to come: in the Brain Sciences; in post-Development; in the Body and Health; and in new Technologies and Materialities

Edited by the leading figures in social anthropology, the Handbook includes a substantive introduction by Richard Fardon, a think piece by Jean and John Comaroff, and a concluding last word on futures by Marilyn Strathern. The authors – each at the leading edge of the discipline – contribute in-depth chapters on both the foundational ideas and the latest research.

Comprehensive and detailed, this magisterial Handbook overviews the last 25 years of the social anthropological imagination. It will speak to scholars in Social Anthropology and its many related disciplines.

Table of Content

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

About the author

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.