An Introduction to Social Anthropology

07Written in a refreshingly accessible style, this fully updated 2nd edition offers the perfect introduction to social anthropology for anyone approaching the subject for the first time. It retains the logical structure of the 1st edition, and adds two new chapters on key issues, new end-of-chapter questions and exciting first-hand accounts.04IntroductionSeeing the WorldDisgusting, Forbidden and UnthinkableGifts, Exchange and ReciprocityThe Ritual RoundSociety: A Set of SymbolsBeauty and Bounty, Treasure and TrophiesCosmology I: Religion, Magic and MythologyCosmology II: Witchcraft, Shamanism and SyncretismLaw, Order and Social ControlThe Art of PoliticsFamily, Kinship and MarriageEconomics and EnvironmentTourism and the Intercultural EncounterTransnationalism, Globalisation and BeyondGlossary of Anthropological TermsIndex of AuthorsIndex of Peoples and PlacesGeneral IndexWorld Map02Joy Hendry is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and is a senior member of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. She specializes in the study of Japan, but has also done fieldwork in Morocco, Canada and Mexico, and has made recent visits to China, Indonesia, Nepal and Uzbekistan. She is the author of many books.