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A
Abu-Lughod, Lila
Affinal
Aggregate
Agnatic
Alienation
Althusser, Louis
Anderson, Benedict
Anomie
Anthropology
Appadurai, Arjun
Applied anthropology
Archetti, Eduardo
Ardener, Edwin
B
Backstage
Bachofen, Johann Jacob
Bailey, Frederick G.
Bakhtin, Mikhail M.
Balandier, Georges
Barnes, John Arundel
Barth, Fredrik
Bastian, Adolf
Basso, Keith
Bateson, Gregory
Bathurst, Robert
Battaglia, Debborah
Bauman, Zygmunt
Benedict, Ruth
Benjamin, Walter
Berger, Peter L.
Bhabha, Homi K.
Bigamy
Bilateral
Birdwhistell, Raymond
Birket-Smith, Kaj
Blavatsky, Helena
Bloch, Maurice
Boas, Franz
Body, The
Bogoraz (Tan), Vladimir G.
Boholm, Åsa
Bois, Cora du
Bourdieu, Pierre
Boym, Svetlana
Bricoleur
Broker
Burke, Kenneth
Butler, Judith
C
Caillois, Roger
Callon, Richard
Cassirer, Ernst
Cerbone, David R.
Certeau, Michel de
Chagnon, Napoleon
Charisma
Chayanov, Alexander V.
Clark, Jerome
Cognatic
Cognition
Cohen, Abner
Cohen, Anthony P.
Collins, Harry M.
Colson, Elizabeth
Communitas
Comparative
Comte, Auguste
Connerton, Paul
Consanguinaity
Consanguine
Consanguinogamy
Context
Corporate group
Crew, Emma
Culture
Cultural relativism
Cybernetics
D
Darwin, Charles
Data
Daun, Åke
Deloria, Vine
Derrida, Jacques
Descent
Descent group
Dichotomy
Dialectics
Dieterlen, Germaine
Dilthey, Wilhelm
Discourse
Djilas, Milovan
Dolgin, J. L.
Douglas, Mary
Duerr, Hans Peter
Dumézil, Georges
Dumont, Louis
Durkheim, Émile
Dynamic equilibrium
Dysfunction
E
Ecology
Egalitarian
Eidheim, Harald
Eidos
Eliade, Mircea
Elias, Norbert
Empirical findings
Endogamy
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Epistemology
Epstein, Arnold L.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland
Escobar, Arturo
Ethnicity
Ethos
Evans-Pritchard, Edward E.
Evolutionism
Exchange
Exogamy
F

Faction
Falkenberg, Johannes
Fanon, Frantz Omar
Featherstone, Mike
Feedback
Feld, Steven
Feldman, Allen
Ferdinand, Klaus V.
Ferguson, James
Firth, Raymond W.
Fock, Niels
Forde, Darryll
Fortes, Meyer
Foucault, Michel
Frankenberg, Ruth
Frazer, James G.
Fried, Morton
Friedman, Jonathan
Frobenius, Leo
Frontstage
Function
Functionalism
Functionalism, Structural
Furnivall, John S.
Furre, Berge

G

Gadamer, Hans-Georg
Geertz, Clifford J.
Gell, Alfred
Gellner, David N.
Gellner, Ernest
Gender 
Gennep, Arnold van
Gibson, William
Giddens, Anthony
Ginzburg, Carlo
Gjessing, Gutorm
Gluckman, Max
Godelier, Maurice
Goffman, Erving
Goody, Jack
Gotaas, Nora
Gould, Harold A.
Gould, Steven Jay
Graebner, Fritz
Gramsci, Antonio
Granqvist, Hilma Natalia
Griaule, Marcel
Gullestad, Marianne
Guneratne, A. Krauskopff
Gunnarson, Gunnar
Gupta, Akhil

H

Habermas, Jürgen
Habitus
Haddon, Alfred Cort
Hannerz, Ulf
Harris, Marvin
Hartman, Carl Vilhelm
Hastrup, Kirsten
Hedin, Sven
Hegel, Georg W. F.
Hegemony
Heidegger, Martin
Herder, Johann Gottlieb von
Herskovits, Melville J.
Hexis
Heyerdahl, Thor
Hierarchy
Hobbes, Thomas
Hocart, Arthur M.
Holism
Humboldt, Wilhelm von

I

Ibn Khaldun, Abd-al-Rahman
Identity
Ideology
Impression management
Informant
Information
Ingold, Tim
Interaction
Izikowitz, Karl-Gustav

J
Jakobson, Roman O.
Jochelson, Vladimir I.
Jung, Carl G.
K

Kant, Immanuel
Kapferer, Bruce
Karsten, S. Rafael
Keesing, Roger M.
Klausen, Arne Martin
Kinship
Kleivan, Helge
Kluckhohn, Clyde
Knutsson, Karl Eric
Kroeber, Alfred L.

L

Legitimacy
Lagercrantz, Sture
Langer, Susanne K.
Latour, Bruno
Leach, Edmund
Leenhardt, Maurice
Leiris, Michel
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
Lienhardt, R. Godfrey
Lineage
Linton, Ralph
Locke, John
Lowie, Robert H.
Lumholtz, Carl S.

M
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Macro level
Maine, Henry
Malinowski, Bronislaw K.
Marcuse, Herbert
Marx, Karl H.
Matrilateral
Matrilineal
Matrilocal
Mauss, Marcel
McLennan, John Ferguson
Mead, George Herbert
Mead, Margaret
Meaning
Meillassoux, Claude
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Metacommunication
Method
Micro level
Miklukho-Maklai, Nikolai Nikolaevich
Mintz, Sidney
Mitchell, James Clyde
Model
Montagu, Ashley
Morality
Morgan, Lewis Henry
Murdock, George P.
N

Nadel, Siegfried
Needham, Rodney
Negative feedback
Networks
Neo-Marxism
Nicolaisen, Johannes
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nomads
Nordenskiöld, Nils Erland H.
Norm

O

Onis, Federico de
Ontology
Operationalization
"Oversettelsesproblemet"

P

Paine, Robert
Paradigmatic
Park, Robert Ezra
Parsons, Talcott
Pastoral nomads
Patrilateral
Patrilineal
Patrilocal
Peasant
Polanyi, Karl
Polyamory
Polyandry
Polygamy
Polygyny
Positive feedback
Postmodernism
Power
Practice
Primitive
Process
"Prosessanalyse"
Psychic unity of mankind, Postulate of

Q
 
R

Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred R.
Radin, Paul
Rappaport, Roy A.
Redfield, Robert
Reflexivity
Reification
Relativism, Cultural
Religion
Richards, Audrey I.
Ritual
Rivers, William H. R.
Rivet, Paul
Role play
Rouch, Jean
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

S

Sahlins, Marshall
Sapir, Edward
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Scale
Schapera, Isaac
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy
Schneider, David
Schutz, Alfred
Segmentary lineages / segmentary opposition
Seligman, Charles Gabriel
Service, Elman Rogers
Social form
Social structure
Social system
Society
Spheres
Structural functionalism
Structuralism

T
Theory
Transhumance
Translation, The problem of
Transactionalism
Tribe
U
Uxorilocal
V

Virilocal

W-X
 
Y
 
Z