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.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Foundations, Focal Areas, Urgent Issues, and Critical Dynamics - Lene Pedersen and Lisa Cliggett
• Part I: Foundations
• 1. Culture - Mark Moberg
• 2. Race and Ethnicity - Lesley Jo Weaver and Erik L. Peterson
• 3. Sex, Gender, and Sexual Subjectivity: Feminist and Queer Anthropology - William Schlesinger
• 4. Kinship and New Social Forms: Kindred Politics, Biotechnology, and Feminist Activism - Rose Edith Wellman
• 5. Paradoxes of Personhood - Ellen Schattschneider
• 6 Fieldwork, Ethnography, and Knowledge Construction - Thomas J. Stodulka
• 7. Cross-Cultural Comparative Commitments - Deborah Winslow
• 8. Engaged Anthropology - Danilyn Rutherford
• 9. Anthropological Theories I: Structure and Agency - Sarasij Majumder
• 10. Anthropology Theories II: Systems and Complexity - Sean S. Downey
• 11. Humanistic Anthropologies: Diverse Weavings about the Many Ways to Be Human - David Syring with additional contributions by Paul Stoller, Leah Zani, and Julia L. Offen
• 12. Anthropological Representation, Epistemology, and Ethics - Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
• Part II: Focal Areas
• 13. Environmental Anthropology - Jamon Alex Halvaksz
• 14. Anthropology of Economy and Development - Andrew Ofstehage
• 15. Urban Anthropology - Kristin V. Monroe
• 16. Locating the ‘Rural’ in Anthropology - Vanessa Koh, Paul Burow, Lav Kanoi, and Michael R. Dove
• 17. Maritime Anthropology - Edyta Roszko
• 18. Political Anthropology - Martijn Koster
• 19. Anthropology of Law - Alan Smart
• 20. Business Anthropology - Sarah Lyon
• 21. Medical Anthropology - Michelle Munyikwa
• 22. Anthropologies of Religion - Kari Telle
• 23. Anthropologies of Cultural Heritage - Oscar Salemink
• 24. Talking to AI: An Anthropological Encounter with Artificial Intelligence - Genevieve Bell
• Part III: Urgent Issues
• 25. Inequality and Precarity - Carlos Martinez, Carolina A. Talavera, Miriam Magaña Lopez, and Seth M. Holmes
• 26. On the Merits of Not Solving Climate Change - Todd A. Crane, Carla Roncoli, Jake Meyers, and Sarah E. Hunt
• 27. Food Systems - Brandi Janssen
• 28. Governance and Democratization - Sten Hagberg
• 29. Mobility - Raúl Acosta
• 30. Governing Lives in the Times of Global Health - Veronica Gomez-Temesio and Frédéric Le Marcis
• Part IV: Short Essays: Contemporary Critical Dynamics
• 31. Indigeneity: Reflections in Four Voices - Marama Muru-Lanning, Rob Thorne, Hine Waitere, and Sita Venkateswar
• 32. Race and Anti-Black Racism in the African Diaspora of the United States - Bertin M. Louis, Jr.
• 33. Common Cause with Conservation - Dayton Daniel Starnes II
• 34. New Paradoxes in Human Rights - Miia Halme-Tuomisaari
• 35. Populism and Moral Economy - Chris Hann
• Conclusion: ‘Stretching’ into the Future and Expansion toward Inclusion, Consilience, and Co-Equality - Lene Pedersen and Lisa Cliggett