Sage Publications The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology (The SAGE Handbook of the Social Sciences)

Review I wish this handbook had been available when I started teaching Cultural Anthropology. The struggle for most Anthropology professors is how to introduce students to the discipline’s history and theories while simultaneously encouraging students to challenge those facts. This volume does that brilliantly. And introducing students to critical sub-fields through chapters highlighting key questions, themes and literatures is, in my experience, the best way to introduce students to the discipline. This handbook is exactly the type of framing of the discipline needed at this historical moment. -- Carolyn Rouse Published On: 2021-03-11 Product Description The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is the first instalment of The SAGE Handbook of the Social Sciences series and encompasses major specialities as well as key interdisciplinary themes relevant to the field. Globally, societies are facing major upheaval and change, and the social sciences are fundamental to the analysis of these issues, as well as the development of strategies for addressing them. This handbook provides a rich overview of the discipline and has a future focus whilst using international theories and examples throughout. The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is an essential resource for social scientists globally and contains a rich body of chapters on all major topics relevant to the field, whilst also presenting a possible road map for the future of the field. Part 1: FoundationsPart 2: Focal AreasPart 3: Urgent Issues Part 4: Short Essays: Contemporary Critical Dynamics About the Author Lene Pedersen is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Central Washington University. She is a cultural anthropologist with expertise in political, environmental, and visual anthropology. Pedersen, a native of Denmark who grew up in Tanzania, received her BA and Honors Degrees in Anthropology and Foreign Languages from University of Alaska Fairbanks and her PhD in Social Anthropology from University of Southern California. Prior to starting her job at CWU, she held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Australian National University. She has carried out research in Indonesia since 1997, mainly in East Bali, with focus on local governance, resource management, and inter-religious relationships. Her NSF funded project on ‘Integrated Field Research and Spatial Analysis of Multiple Modalities of Political Change’ (BCS-0964432) investigates the changing structures and meanings of ties between political actors in Indonesia’s hybrid system of governance whose newly decentralized political system intersects with older, multi-level traditional systems. Her published work includes the book, Ritual and World Change in a Balinese Princedom, two chapters in edited volumes on ‘Negotiating Religious Identities Within Majority-Minority relationships in Bali and Lombok and ‘Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context.’ She also edited a special issue on ‘Communal Peace and Conflict in Indonesia: Navigating Inter-Religious Boundaries,’ to which she contributed an introduction to ‘Religious Pluralism in Indonesia,’ and she has published articles on ‘State Decentering and Irrigated Rice Production in Bali’ (with Wiwik Dharmiasih),and ‘Responding to Indonesian Decentralization: A Perspective from a Balinese Princedom.’ She is editor and contributor to the film-review column of the General Anthropology Division Bulletin (the American Anthropological Association).Lisa Cliggett is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Cliggett received her BA in Anthropology from Connecticut College and her MA/PhD from Indiana University. Prior to coming to the University of Kentucky, she held a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Population Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a cultural anthropologist with expertise in Economic and Environmental anthropology, as well as migration, development and kins