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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL

ANTHROPOLOGY

The Key Concepts

Social and Cultural Anthropology:The Key Concepts is the ideal guide to this discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the concepts explored are:

Each entry is accompanied by specific cross-referencing and there is an extensive index and bibliography. Providing both historical commentary and future-oriented debate Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is a superb reference resource for anyone studying or teaching anthropology.

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews and the author of numerous books on anthropology, including Transcendent Individual: Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology (1997) and, with Anthony P.Cohen,

Questions of Consciousness (1995), both published by Routledge. Joanna Overing is Professor and Chair of Social Anthropology, also at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of many publications on Amazonia and on anthropological theory. She was editor of the volume

Reason and Morality (Routledge, 1985).

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Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing

First published 2000 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

© 2000 Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing

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