In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology. With 80 authors, contributing more than 60 chapters, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date statement of research in Social Anthropology available and the essential point of departure for future projects. The Handbook is divided into four sections: -Part I: Interfaces examines Social Anthropology's disciplinary connections, from Art and Literature to Politics and Economics, from Linguistics to Biomedicine, from History to Media Studies. -Part II: Places examines place, region, culture, and history, from regional, area studies to a globalized world -Part III: Methods examines issues of method; from archives to war zones, from development projects to art objects, and from ethics to comparison -Part IV: Futures anticipates anthropologies to come: in the Brain Sciences; in post-Development; in the Body and Health; and in new Technologies and Materialities Edited by the leading figures in social anthropology, the Handbook includes a substantive introduction by Richard Fardon, a think piece by Jean and John Comaroff, and a concluding last word on futures by Marilyn Strathern. The authors - each at the leading edge of the discipline - contribute in-depth chapters on both the foundational ideas and the latest research. Comprehensive and detailed, this magisterial Handbook overviews the last 25 years of the social anthropological imagination. It will speak to scholars in Social Anthropology and its many related disciplines.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME ONE Preface: The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth - John Gledhill and James Fairhead Foreword: Thinking Anthropologically, About British Social Anthropology - John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff Introduction: Flying Theory, Grounded Method - Richard Fardon PART ONE: INTERFACES - Edited by Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson Introduction: Anthropology′s Interdisciplinary Connections - Cris Shore and Richard A. Wilson Anthropology and Linguistics - Alessandro Duranti Anthropology and Psychology - Christina Toren Anthropology of Biomedicine and Bioscience - Sarah Franklin Anthropology and Art - Arnd Schneider Anthropology, Media and Cultural Studies - Kevin Latham Anthropology and Public Policy - Cris Shore Anthropology and Law - Sally Engle Merry Anthropology and History - Jane K. Cowan Anthropology and Archaeology - Julian Thomas Anthropology, Economics and Development Studies - Keith Hart Anthropology and the Political - Jennifer Curtis and Jonathan Spencer Anthropology and Religious Studies - Martin Mills Anthropology and Museums - Brian Durrans Anthropology and Gender Studies - Henrietta L. Moore Anthropology and the Postcolonial - Richard Werbner Anthropology and Literature - C.W. Watson PART TWO: PLACES - Edited by Mark Nuttall Introduction: Place, Region, Culture, History: From Area Studies to a Globalized World - Mark Nuttall The Circumpolar North: Locating the Arctic and Sub-Arctic - Mark Nuttall Replacing Europe - Sarah Green Retroversion, Introversion, Extraversion: Three Aspects of African Anthropology - David Pratten Refiguring the Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa - Glenn Bowman Southwest and Central Asia: Comparison, Integration or Beyond? - Magnus Marsden South Asia: Intimacy and Identities, Politics and Poverty - Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery Modernization and its Aftermath: The Anthropology of Japan - D.P. Martinez The Emerging Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Emerging China - J.S. Eades Archipelagic Southeast Asia - Roy Ellen Australasian Contrasts - Nicolas Peterson, Don Gardner and James Urry Australia - Nicolas Peterson Melanesia - Don Gardner New Zealand/Aotearoa - James Urry Two Indigenous Americas - Kathleen Lowrey and Pauline Turner Strong North America - Pauline Turner Strong South America - Kathleen Lowrey North and Latin American National Societies from a Continental Perspective - John Gledhill and Peter Wade Migration and Other Forms of Movement - Vered Amit The Cosmopolitan World - Nigel Rapport The Indigenous World - Robert K. Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli VOLUME TWO PART THREE: METHODS - Edited by the late Olivia Harris and Veronica Strang Introduction: Issues of Method - Richard Fardon and Veronica Strang Fieldwork Since the 1980s: Total Immersion and its Discontents - Janet Carsten Between Routine and Rupture: The Archive as Field Event - Tristan Platt The Role of Language in Ethnographic Method - Susan Gal The Ethnographic Interview in an Age of Globalization - Joshua Barker Interpreting Texts and Performances - Karin Barber Blurred Visions: Reflecting Visual Anthropology - Rupert Cox and Christopher Wright Artefacts in Anthropology - Liana Chua and Amiria Salmond Knowledge and Experimental Practice: A Dialogue Between Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies - Penelope Harvey Twenty-first Century Ethics for Audited Anthropologists - Nayanika Mookherjee Ethics Out of the Ordinary - Michael Lambek Researching Zones of Conflict and War - Paul Richards Conflicts and Compromises? Experiences of Doing Anthropology at the Interface of Public Policy - Tim Allen and Melissa Parker From Participant-Observation to Participant-Collaboration: Some Observations on Participatory-cum-Collaborative Approaches - Paul Sillitoe Comparative Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology Today - Andre Gingrich PART FOUR: FUTURES - Edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand Introduction: Anthropologies to Come - Trevor H.J. Marchand Section 4.1: Neo-Darwinism, Biology and the Brain Sciences Anthropology and Neo-Darwinism - Robin I.M. Dunbar Cognition, Evolution and the Future of Social Anthropology - Harvey Whitehouse Neuroanthropology - Greg Downey Knowledge in Hand: Explorations of Brain, Hand and Tool - Trevor H.J. Marchand Section 4.2: After Development: Environment, Food, Energy, Disaster Environment and Society: Political Ecologies and Moral Futures - James Fairhead and Melissa Leach Anthropological Encounters with Economic Development and Biodiversity Conservation - Laura M. Rival New Directions in the Anthropology of Food - Jakob A. Klein, Johan Pottier and Harry G. West Water, Land and Territory - Veronica Strang The Anthropology of Disaster Aftermath - Edward Simpson Section 4.3: Demographics, Health and the Transforming Body Demographies in Flux - Sophie Day New Medical Anthropology - Helen Lambert The Anthropology of Drugs - Axel Klein Transforming Bodies: The Embodiment of Sexual and Gender Difference - Andrea Cornwall Section 4.4: New Technologies and Materialities New Materials and New Technologies: Science, Design and the Challenge to Anthropology - Susanne K chler Anthropology and Emerging Technologies: Science, Subject and Symbiosis - Ron Eglash From Media Anthropology to the Anthropology of Mediation - Dominic Boyer Anthropology in the New Millennium - Christopher Pinney Afterword: A Last Word on Futures - Marilyn Strathern