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    Biographical dictionary of social and cultural anthropology / edited by Vered Amit.

    • Title:Biographical dictionary of social and cultural anthropology / edited by Vered Amit.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Amit, Vered, 1955-
    • Published/Created:London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Anthropologists--Biography--Dictionaries.
      Ethnologists--Biography--Dictionaries.
    • Medical Subjects: Anthropology
      Anthropology, Cultural [MESH]
    • Genre/Form: Dictionaries.
      Biographies.
    • Description:xxii, 613 pages ; 26 cm.
    • Summary:"In addition to covering the primary centers of production in the United States and Britain, this volume also includes leading anthropologists from a wide range of regions and backgrounds. Combining valuable essays on seminal historical figures, as well as entries on the foremost scholars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this unique reference offers an important overview of the historical and contemporary reach of anthropological research." "With nearly 600 signed entries from a global team of contributors, this comprehensive work is destined to be the definitive reference source for authoritative information on the historical and contemporary key figures in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    • ISBN:0415223792 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:Introduction and guidelines
      Entries A-Z
      Index of interests
      Index of institutions
      Index of names
      Index of concepts.
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