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The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (formerly Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology) is a growing teaching and learning resource. Its goal is to facilitate access to scholarship in Social Anthropology for experts and non-experts worldwide. All entries are written and peer-reviewed by leading academics.
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The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (also known as the OEA and formerly known as the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology) is a free, peer-reviewed open access encyclopedia dedicated to the encyclopedic coverage of social and cultural anthropology.
Ethnicity is a concept that marks social belonging as much as it does difference, and that lies at the heart of political debates as well as debates across academic disciplines today. Rooted in the ancient Greek ethnos, the term is popularly understood as ‘people’ or ‘nation’.
In anthropology, agency is broadly defined as the socio-culturally mediated capacity to act. Classically, the concept has been used to analyse how people try to influence, or change, their lifeworlds and how they act within, or even resist, powerful structures.
In 2023 colleagues from around the world and I relaunched it as the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (OEA). You can find it here: http://www.anthroencyclopedia.com. The OEA includes over 90 open-access entries and has been read by over half a million people around the world.
As our entries on Climate Change or the Anthropocene illustrate, anthropology is now more relevant than ever to deal with society’s most pressing challenges and to make sense of our lives. The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (OEA) was officially launched in January 2023.
The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (also known as the OEA and formerly known as the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology) is a free, peer-reviewed open access encyclopedia dedicated to the encyclopedic coverage of social and cultural anthropology.
