An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts

David Zeitlyn

This book was published in September 2022
by Berghahn books

It can be ordered from the publishers website
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/ZeitlynAnthropological

Reviewed in JRAI in 2025 by Peter Metcalf:

Instead of inventing neologisms, {Zeitlyn} scours an impressive range of literature in the humanities and social sciences to find technical terms that can be put to good use in anthropology.

Links to related content

• A short introduction on youtube
• Acaudio Podcast interview with DZ about the book
• Author Interview with Berghahn
• Anthropotamous Podcast Author Interview
• Hypertext of the cross-references between sections aka a visualisation of the network of the links in the hypertext http://mambila.info/Toolkit_Hypertext
• Notes for classroom use of the book Anthropological Toolkit http://mambila.info/Toolkit_Hypertext/classroom.html

David Zeitlyn 8 May 2025