Cultural anthropology is the study of the social practices, expressive forms, and language use through which meanings are constituted, invoked and often contested in human societies. The term cultural anthropology is generally associated with the...

Although it is sometimes claimed that archaeology is ‘the past tense of cultural anthropology’ (Renfrew and Bahn 1991:9), the relationship between archaeology and sociocultural anthropology is actually rather complex and varies greatly...

The term social anthropology began to be used for a branch of anthropology in the early twentieth century. Initially—when used, for instance, by James George Frazer—it described an evolutionist project. The aim was to reconstruct the...

In most of these countries (Britain is the main exception) †ethnology is the leading discipline which is concerned with own-society anthropological studies. In general terms, ethnology as a university subject, *museum profession and research...

Cultural anthropology is one of four fields of anthropology (the holistic study of humanity) as it developed in the United States. It is the branch of anthropology that has developed and promoted "culture" as a meaningful scientific concept, studied...

Richard G. Fox and Barbara J. King (eds.), Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002, 256 pages. Reviewer: Helen Johnson University of Queensland This edited collection about the various ways the organizing concept of culture can be defined and applied moves beyond the...

Gramsci, Culture, and Anthropology. By Kate Crehan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. x, 220. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Since the middle 1980s the notion of culture has come under attack in the field of anthropology. Critics of culture argue that it...