Introducing Cultural Anthropology

by LENKEIT

• ISBN13: 9780072820256
• ISBN10: 007282025X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

A brief, accessible introduction to cultural anthropology with in-text activities that give students the opportunity to explore anthropology's relevance to their own lives.

Table of Contents

To the Instructor To the Student

Basic Concepts and Methods in Anthropology

Anthropology: What Are Its Subfields and Perspectives?

Culture: What Makes Us Strangers When We Are Away From Home?

Fieldwork: How Is Data Gathered?

Language: Is This What Makes Us Human?

Cross-Cultural Adaptive Patterns

Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation: What Choices Are There?

Marriage,Family and Residence: What Are the Possibilities?

Kinship and Descent: Are These the Ties That Bind?

Gender and Sexuality: Nature or Nuture

Political Order, Disorder, And Social Control: Who Decides?

Belief Systems: How Do We Explain the Unbelievable?

Expressions: Is This Art?

Applying The Anthropological Perspective

Culture Change: How Do We Foresee The Unforseeable?

Applying Anthropology: How Does It Make A Difference?

How Do You Read An Ethnography?

How Do You Make String Figures?

Glossary

References Credits

Index

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