The SAGE Handbook of

Social Anthropology

Volume 1

Edited by

Richard Fardon, Olivia Harris, Trevor H. J. Marchand, Mark NuttaH,

Cris Share, Veronica Strang and Richard A. Wilson

Published with the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth

($)SAGE Los Angeles 1 London 1 New Delhi

Singapore 1 Washington DC

Contents

VOLUME 1 Notes on Contributors x1

Preface: The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth xxv John Gledhill (Chair of the ASA 2005-2009) and James Fairhead

(Chair of the ASA 2009-2013)

Foreword: Thinking Anthropologically, About British Social Anthropology xxviii John L Comaroff and Jean Comaroff

Introduction - Flying Theory, Grounded Method Richard Fardon (Chair of the ASA 2001-2005)

PART 1 INTERFACES Edited by Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson

Introduction - Anthropology's Interdisciplinary Connections Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson

1.1 Anthropology and Linguistics Alessandro Duranti

1.2 Anthropology and Psychology Christina Toren

1.3 Anthropology of Biomedicine and Bioscience Sarah Frank/in

1.4 Anthropology and Art Amd Schneider

1.5 Anthropology, Media and Cultural Studies Kevin Latham

1.6 Anthropology and Public Policy Cris Shore

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1. 7 Anthropology and Law Sally Engte Merry

1.8 Anthropology and History Jane K. Cowan

1.9 Anthropology and Archaeology Julian Thomas

1.10 Anthropology, Economics and Development Studies Keith Hart

1.11 Anthropology and the Political Jennifer Curtis and Jonathan Spencer

1.12 Anthropology and Religious Studies Martin Mills

1.13 Anthropology and Museums Brian Durrans

1.14 Anthropology and Gender Studies Henrietta L. Moore

1.15 Anthropology and the Postcolonial Richard Werbner

1.16 Anthropology and Literature C.W. Watson

PART 2 PLACES Edited by Mark Nuttall

Introduction - Place, Region, Culture, History: From Area Studies to a Globalized World Mark Nuttall

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2.1 Tue Circumpolar North: Locating the Arctic and Sub-Arctic 270 Mark Nuttall

2.2 Replacing Europe 286 Sarah Green

2.3 Retroversion, Introversion, Extraversion: Three Aspects of African Anthropology 308 David Pratten

2.4 Refiguring the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa 324 Glenn Bowman

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2.5 Southwest and Central Asia: Comparison, Integration or Beyond? Magnus Marsden

2.6 South Asia: Intimacy and ldentities, Politics and Poverty Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery

2.7 Modemization and its Aftermath: Tue Anthropology of Japan D.P. Martinez

2.8 The Emerging Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Emerging China J.S. Eades

2.9 Archipelagic Southeast Asia Roy Ellen

2.10 Australasian Contrasts Nicolas Peterson, Don Gardner and James Urry

Australia Nicolas Peterson

Melanesia Don Gardner

New Zealand/ Aotearoa James Urry

2.11 Two Indigenous Americas Kathleen Lowrey and Pauline Turner Strong

North America Pauline Turner Strong

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South America 472 Kathleen Lowrey

2.12 North and Latin American National Societies from a Continental Perspective 487 John Gledhill and Peter Wade

2.13 Migration and Other Forms of Movement 511 VeredAmit

2.14 The Cosmopolitan World 523 Nigel Rapport

2.15 The lndigenous World 538 Robert K. Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli

Name Index 547 Subject Index 577

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VOLUME 2 PART 3 METHODS

Edited by the Late Olivia Harris and Veronica Strang

Introduction - Issues of Method Richard Fardon and Veronica Strang

3.1 Fieldwork Since the 1980s: Total Immersion and its Discontents Janet Carsten

3.2 Between Routine and Rupture: Tue Archive as Field Event Tristan Platt

3.3 Tue Role of Language in Ethnographie Method Susan Gai

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3.4 Tue Ethnographie Interview in an Age of Globalization 54 Joshua Barker

3.5 Interpreting Texts and Performances 69 Karin Barber

3.6 Blurred Visions: Reflecting Visual Anthropology 84 Rupert Cox and Christopher Wright

3.7 Artefacts in Anthropology 101 Liana Chua and Amiria Salmond

3.8 .Knowledge and Experimental Practice: A Dialogue Between Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies 115 Penelope Harvey

3.9a Twenty-first Century Ethics for Audited Anthropologists 130 Nayanika Mookherjee

3.9b Ethics Out of the Ordinary 141 Michael Lambek

3.10 Researching Zones of Conflict and War 153 Paul Richards

3.11 Conflicts and Compromises? Experiences of Doing Anthropology at the Interface of Public Policy 168 Tim Allen and Melissa Parker

3.12 From Participant-Observation to Participant-Collaboration: Some Observations on Participatory-cum-Collaborative Approaches 183 Paul Sillitoe

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3.13 Comparative Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology Today Andre Gingrich

PART 4 FUTURES Edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand

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Introduction - Anthropologies to Come 217 Trevor H.J. Marchand

Section 4.1 Neo-Darwinism, Biology and the Drain Sciences 223

4.1.1 Anthropology and Neo-Darwinism 225 Robin I.M. Dunbar

4.1.2 Cognition, Evolution and the Future of Social Anthropology 234 Harvey Whitehouse

4.1.3 Neuroanthropology 243 Greg Downey

4.1.4 Knowledge in Hand: Explorations of Brain, Hand and Tool 261 Trevor H.J. Marchand

Section 4.2 After Development - Environment, Food, Energy, Disaster 273

4.2.1 Environment and Society: Political Ecologies and Moral Futures 275 James Fairhead and Melissa Leach

4.2.2 Anthropological Encounters with Economic Development and Biodiversity Conservation 286 Laura M. Rival

4.2.3 New Directions in the Anthropology of Food 299 Jakob A. Klein, Johan Pottier and Harry G. West

4.2.4 Water, Land and Territory 312 Veronica Strang

4.2.5 Tue Anthropology of Disaster Aftermath 329 Edward Simpson

Section 4.3 Demographics, Health and the Transforming Body 339

4.3. l Demographies in Flux 341 Sophie Day

4.3.2 New Medical Anthropology 353 Helen Lambert

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4.3.3 Tue Anthropology of Drugs Axel Klein

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4.3.4 Transfonning Bodies: Tue Embodiment of Sexual and Gender Difference 377 Andrea Cornwall

Section 4.4 New Technologies and Materialities 389

4.4.1 New Materialsand New Technologies: Science, Design and the Challenge to Anthropology 391 Susanne Küchler

4.4.2 Anthropology and Emerging Technologies: Science, Subject and Symbiosis 400 Ron Eglash

4.4.3 From Media Anthropology to the Anthropology of Mediation 411 Dominic Boyer

4.4.4 Anthropology in the New Millennium 423 Christopher Pinney

Afterword: A Last Word on Futures 431 Marilyn Strathem (Life President of the ASA)

Name Index 437 Subject Index 467