Cultural Anthropology with Living Anthropology Student CD

by Kottak, Conrad Phillip

• ISBN13: 9780073315096
• ISBN10: 0073315095
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-29
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Written by Kottak, recent inductee to The National Academy of Sciences, this text for cultural anthropology emphasizes anthropology's integrated and comparative nature with "Bringing It All Together" essays that show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive feature, "Understanding Ourselves," illustrates the relevance of anthropological facts and theories to students' everyday lives.

Table of Contents

The Dimensions of Anthropology

What Is Anthropology?

Applying Anthropology

Cultural Diversity

Culture

The Evolutionary Origins of Human Culture

Ethnicity and Race

Language and Communication

Making a Living

Political Systems

Families, Kinship, and Descent

Marriage

Gender

Religion

The Arts

The Changing World

The Modern World System

Colonialism and Development

Cultural Exchange and Survival

A History of Theories in Anthropology

Ethics and Anthropology

American Popular Culture

Ethics and Methods in Cultural Anthropology

Detailed Table of Contents

About the Author

Preface Walkthrough

The Dimensions of Anthropology

What Is Anthropology?

Overview

Human Adaptability Adaptation, Variation, and Change

General Anthropology

Cultural Forces Shape

Human Biology

The Subdisciplines of Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Archaeological Anthropology

Biological, or Physical Anthropology

Interesting Issues: Even Anthropologists Get Culture Shock

Beyond the Classroom: The Utility of Hand and Foot Bones for Problems in Biological Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Applied Anthropology

Anthropology and Other Academic Fields Cultural Anthropology and Sociology Anthropology and Psychology Science, Explanation, and Hypothesis Testing

Applying Anthropology

What Is Applied Anthropology?

Academic and Applied Anthropology

Theory and Practice

Anthropology and Education

Urban Anthropology

Urban versus Rural Medical Anthropology

Beyond the Classroom: New Life, Good Health Anthropology and Business

Careers and Anthropology

Interesting Issues: Hot Asset in Corporate: Anthropology Degrees

Cultural Diversity

Culture What Is Culture?

Culture Is Learned Culture Is Shared

Interesting Issues: Touching, Affection, Love, and Sex

Culture Is Symbolic Culture and Nature Culture

Is All-Encompassing Culture

Is Integrated Culture

Can Be Adaptive and Maladaptive Culture and the Individual: Agency and Practice

Levels of Culture Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, and Human Rights Universality, Generality, and Particularity Universality Generality Particularity: Patterns of Culture

Beyond the Classroom: Folklore Reveals Ethos of Heating Plant Workers

Mechanisms of Cultural Change Globalization

The Evolutionary Origins of Human Culture Evolution Theory and Fact Genetics Mendel’s Experiments Independent Assortment and Recombination Biochemical, or Molecular, Genetics Cell

Division Crossing Over Mutation Population Genetics and Mechanisms of Genetic Evolution Natural Selection Random Genetic Drift Gene Flow

The Modern Synthesis Punctuated Equilibrium

Ethnicity and Race Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity Status Shifting Race Social Race Hypodescent: Race in the United States

Beyond the Classroom: Perceptions of Race and Skin Color on an American College Campus Race in the Census Not Us: Race in Japan Phenotype and Fluidity: Race in Brazil Stratification and "Intelligence" Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Nationalities Nationalities and Imagined Communities Peaceful Coexistence Assimilation

The Plural Society Multiculturalism and Ethnic Identity Interesting Issues: Ethnic Nationalism Runs Wild Roots of Ethnic Conflict Prejudice and Discrimination Chips in the Mosaic Aftermaths of Oppression

Language and Communication What Is Language? Animal Communication Call Systems Sign Language The Origin of Language Nonverbal Communication The Structure of Language Speech Sounds Language, Thought, and Culture Interesting Issues: Do Midwesterner''s Have Accents? The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Focal Vocabulary Meaning Sociolinguistics Linguistic Diversity Gender Speech Contrasts Language and Status Position Stratification Black English Vernacular (BEV), a.k.a. "Ebonics" Beyond the Classroom: Cybercommunication in Collegespace Historical Linguistics Bringing It All Together: Canada: Unity and Diversity in Culture and Language

Making a Living Adaptive Strategies Foraging Correlates of Foraging

Beyond the Classroom: Integrating Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Analytic Subsistence Data: A Case Study from Patagonia, South America Cultivation Horticulture Agriculture

The Cultivation Continuum Intensification: People and the Environment Pastoralism Modes of Production

Production in Nonindustrial Societies Means of Production

Alienation in Industrial Economies Economizing and Maximization Alternative Ends

Interesting Issues: Scarcity and the Betsileo Distribution, Exchange

The Market Principle Redistribution Reciprocity Coexistence of Exchange Principles Potlatching

Political Systems What Is "The Political?"

Types and Trends Bands and Tribes Foraging Bands Tribal Cultivators

The Village Head

The "Big Man" Pantribal Sodalities and Age Grades Nomadic Politics

Beyond the Classroom: Perspectives on Group Membership Chiefdoms

Political and Economic Systems in Chiefdoms Social Status in Chiefdoms Status Systems in Chiefdoms and States

States Population Control Judiciary Enforcement Fiscal Systems Social Control: Politics, Shame, and Sorcery

Families, Kinship, and Descent Families Nuclear and Extended Families

Industrialism and Family Organization Changes in North American Kinship

The Family among Foragers Descent Descent Groups Lineages, Clans, and Residence

Rules Ambilineal Descent Family versus Descent Kinship Calculation Genealogical Kin Types and Kin Terms

Interesting Issues: Social Security, Kinship Style Kinship Terminology Lineal Terminology Bifurcate Merging Terminology Generational Terminology Bifurcate Collateral Terminology

Marriage What Is Marriage?

Incest and Exogamy Explaining the Taboo Instinctive Horror Biological Degeneration Attempt and Contempt Marry Out or Die Out Endogamy Caste Royal Incest Marital Rights and Same-Sex Marriage

Beyond the Classroom: Human Mate Preference in Matrimonial Advertisements from Gujarat, India Marriage as Group Alliance Bridewealth and Dowry Durable Alliances

Interesting Issues: Love and Marriage Divorce Plural Marriages Polygyny Polyandry

Gender Sex and Gender Recurrent

Gender Patterns

Gender among Foragers

Gender among Horticulturist Reduced Gender

Stratification--Matrilineal, Matrilocal Societies

Reduced Gender Stratification--Matrifocal Societies

Increased Gender Stratification--Patrilineal-Patrilocal Societies

Gender among Agriculturalists Patriarchy and Violence Gender and Industrialism

The Feminization of Poverty Sexual Orientation

Interesting Issues: Hidden Women, Public Men---Public Women, Hidden Men Bringing It All Together: The Basques

Religion What Is Religion?

Origins, Functions,

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