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1. Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology

   Edited by Vered Amit

   Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed entries from a global team of contributors and offers an important, and fascinating overview of the...

   Published August 25th 2008 by Routledge
2. Realizing Community

   Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments

   Edited by Vered Amit

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses...

   Published February 6th 2002 by Routledge
3. Constructing the Field

   Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World

   Edited by Vered Amit

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork in recent years. It challenges the idea of the necessity for the total immersion of the...

   Published September 22nd 1999 by Routledge