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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (CEA) is
a growing open-access 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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Religion, Theory
Magic
Attempts to define and describe magic must reckon with this concept’s slipperiness, as magic is often understood against what supposedly it is not: typically, ‘proper’ religion and ‘...
October 2019 by Matteo Benussi
Politics, Theory
Revolution
Revolutions encompass political mobilizations that attempt rapid transformations of both the nature of political authority and wider social, political, and economic structures....
October 2019 by Alice Wilson
Economics, Politics
Mining
Mining has occurred for thousands of years, and social anthropologists have studied it for almost a century. This entry explains anthropology's principle findings about mining,...
October 2019 by Alex Golub
Health, Politics
Autism
The concept of autism is historically contingent. It did not exist, in any proper sense, before it was invoked by medical and mental health professionals in the twentieth century....
September 2019 by Ben Belek

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