The SAGE Handbook of Social

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

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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 xxviii John L Comaroff and

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

PART 1 INTERFACES 7 Edited by Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson

Introduction - Anthropology's Interdisciplinary Connections 9 Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson

1.1 Anthropology and Linguistics 12 Alessandro Duranti

1.2 Anthropology and Psychology 27 Christina Toren

1.3 Anthropology of Biomedicine and Bioscience 42 Sarah Frank/in

1.4 Anthropology and Art 56 Amd Schneider

1.5 Anthropology, Media and Cultural Studies 72 Kevin Latham

1.6 Anthropology and Public Policy 89 Cris Shore vi CONTENTS

1. 7 Anthropology and Law 105 Sally Engte Merry

1.8 Anthropology and History 121 Jane K. Cowan

1.9 Anthropology and Archaeology 138 Julian Thomas

1.10 Anthropology, Economics and Development Studies 154 Keith Hart

1.11 Anthropology and the Political 168 Jennifer Curtis and Jonathan Spencer

1.12 Anthropology and Religious Studies 183 Martin Mills

1.13 Anthropology and Museums 197 Brian Durrans

1.14 Anthropology and Gender Studies 212 Henrietta L. Moore

1.15 Anthropology and the Postcolonial 227 Richard Werbner

1.16 Anthropology and Literature 248 C.W. Watson

PART 2 PLACES 263 Edited by Mark Nuttall

Introduction - Place, Region, Culture, History: From Area Studies to a Globalized World 265 Mark Nuttall

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 CONTENTS yjj

2.5 Southwest and Central Asia: Comparison, Integration or Beyond? 340 Magnus Marsden

2.6 South Asia: Intimacy and ldentities, Politics and Poverty 366 Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery

2.7 Modemization and its Aftermath: Tue Anthropology of Japan 388 D.P. Martinez

2.8 The Emerging Socio- of Emerging China 405 J.S. Eades

2.9 Archipelagic Southeast Asia 422 Roy Ellen

2.10 Australasian Contrasts 443 Nicolas Peterson, Don Gardner and James Urry

Australia 443 Nicolas Peterson

Melanesia 448 Don Gardner

New Zealand/Aotearoa 453 James Urry

2.11 Two Indigenous Americas 465 Kathleen Lowrey and Pauline Turner Strong

North America 465 Pauline Turner Strong

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 viii CONTENTS

VOLUME 2

PART 3 METHODS 1 Edited by the Late Olivia Harris and Veronica Strang

Introduction - Issues of Method 3 Richard Fardon and Veronica Strang

3.1 Fieldwork Since the 1980s: Total Immersion and its Discontents 7

3.2 Between Routine and Rupture: Tue Archive as Field Event 21 Tristan Platt

3.3 Tue Role of Language in Ethnographie Method 38 Susan Gai

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 CONTENTS ix

3.13 Comparative Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology Today 201 Andre Gingrich

PART 4 FUTURES 215 Edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand

Introduction - 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 X CONTENTS

4.3.3 Tue Anthropology of Drugs 365 Axel Klein

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