The Dictionary of Anthropology

Rating:
Summary: Don't bother
Review: I have this book since I purchased in April 1999 and has been a very handy resource for me whenever I need it. This dictionary has been very helpful for me to pinpoint terminologies which sometimes left vauge in my mind since I left the department of anthropologies during my graduate studies quite a long time ago. As a reference book I don't use it every day but it's always a part of my collection and ready whenever I need it.

This morning I discovered that something is missing in this book. All dictionaries I have alway started from A to Z. Whatever happened to this book, by accident or by design, this dictionary doesn't have any word started with letter X, Y and Z. It has only words from A to W which reminds me to a brand name of Rootbeer A&W.

I checked the page number on the last word of letter W. It is page 501. Then on page 502 it starts with Bibliografy and ends on page 626, a long 124 pages of A to Z author's name.

My question to the Editor Thomas Barfield and/or the Publisher Blackwell Publisher, Ltd is what's happening to the words starting with X, Y, and Z?

Rating:
Summary: The Dictionary of Anghropology
Review: I have this book since I purchased in April 1999 and has been a very handy resource for me whenever I need it. This dictionary has been very helpful for me to pinpoint terminologies which sometimes left vauge in my mind since I left the department of anthropologies during my graduate studies quite a long time ago. As a reference book I don't use it every day but it's always a part of my collection and ready whenever I need it.

This morning I discovered that something is missing in this book. All dictionaries I have alway started from A to Z. Whatever happened to this book, by accident or by design, this dictionary doesn't have any word started with letter X, Y and Z. It has only words from A to W which reminds me to a brand name of Rootbeer A&W.

I checked the page number on the last word of letter W. It is page 501. Then on page 502 it starts with Bibliografy and ends on page 626, a long 124 pages of A to Z author's name.

My question to the Editor Thomas Barfield and/or the Publisher Blackwell Publisher, Ltd is what's happening to the words starting with X, Y, and Z?

Rating:
Summary: Don't bother
Review: This dictionary is just another long-winded, pretentious, unreadable, high-brow attempt to legitimize anthropology. The authors of each definition are more concerned with impressing their peers than giving the average person clear insight to cultural anthropology. If you are struggling through a cultural anthropology class, and are looking for a dictionary with clear definitions, forget this book.