Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

• 'A very good idea, these Very Short Introductions, a new concept from OUP' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
• Authors draw on their own experience of anthropology, including fieldwork in Mexico and Indonesia
• Accessible and stimulating
• Success of the VSI series so far, and plans for expansion

John Monaghan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Peter Just, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

1. Fieldwork and Ethnography; 2. Culture; 3. Society; 4. Sex and blood; 5. Class and caste, village and city, home and the world; 6. Language and social life; 7. The culturally constructed self 8. The future of anthropology; Further reading; Index.