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An Introduction to Social Anthropology

Other People’s Worlds

  • Textbook
  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Joy Hendry
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  • Offers comprehensive coverage of all the core topics in the curriculum adopting an original but carefully structured approach to these
    Mixes examples from the developing and the industrialised world, so as to show the value of social anthropology for the study of ALL societies
    Exceptionally clearly written and easy to read
    Provides lots of suggestions for further reading as well as a list of films (and where to obtain them), giving plentiful opportunity for further study
    Written by a very well established author with a long experience of teaching first year undergraduate students

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 1-16

  3. Seeing the World

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 17-33

  4. Disgusting, Forbidden and Unthinkable

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 34-45

  5. Gifts, Exchange and Reciprocity

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 47-64

  6. The Ritual Round

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 65-81

  7. Society: A Set of Symbols

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 82-96

  8. Beauty and Bounty: Treasure and Trophies

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 97-114

  9. Cosmology I: Religion, Magic and Mythology

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 115-131

  10. Cosmology II: Witchcraft, Shamanism and Syncretism

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 132-147

  11. Law, Order and Social Control

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 148-163

  12. The Art of Politics

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 164-180

  13. Family, Kinship and Marriage

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 181-206

  14. Economics and the Environment

    • Joy Hendry
    Pages 207-226

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 227-249
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About this book

This refreshingly clear and easy-to-read text offers the perfect introduction to social anthropology for anyone approaching the subject for the first time. It is carefully structured so that one chapter builds on the next and it covers all the core topics in an even-handed and illuminating manner, introducing the reader to the depth of divergent views on all the most basic subjects - food, hygiene, gift-exchange, rites of passage, symbolism, religion, politics and the environment. Combining an abundance of unobtrusive reference and further reading for the serious student with an immensely readable and engaging writing style, this book offers a compelling introduction to a growing and exciting subject.

About the author

JOY HENDRY is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. She specialises in the study of Japan, but has also lived in Morocco, Canada and Mexico, and made recent study visits to China, Indonesia, Nepal and Uzbekistan. She is the author of many books, including Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies.

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