Cultural Anthropology A Perspective on the Human Condition with free Study Skills Guide on CD-ROM

by Schultz, Emily A.; Lavenda, Robert H.

• ISBN13: 9780195170115
• ISBN10: 0195170113
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Extensively revised in this sixth edition, Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition explores the interplay of cultural creativity, human agency, and material constraint in the shaping of human cultural traditions. It looks at the tremendous variety of culturally constructedways of life and focuses on how people as creative beings bring meaning to the world and transform it through practical action. Cultural Anthropology, 6/e: * Incorporates cutting-edge theory and explains complex concepts clearly, encouraging critical thinking * Addresses issues of power and inequality in the contemporary world--divisions based on class, caste, race, ethnicity, and nationality in the context of globalization, as well as struggles for social justice and human rights--and includes material on gender and feminist anthropology throughout * Offers new sections on multiculturalism in contemporary Europe, multi-sited fieldwork, language ideology, secularism, the difference between "everyday" ethnicity and racism, social suffering and trauma, and the debate over "writing against culture," as well as new material on globalization * Exposes students to alternative perspectives from non-anthropologists and indigenous peoples through forty "In Their Own Words" commentaries * Provides ethnographic summaries of each society discussed at length in the text in sixty-eight "EthnoProfile" boxes * Contains two unique chapters that provide fresh treatments of standard topics: Chapter 7 links play, art, myth, and ritual in a framework that highlights the emphasis on cultural creativity, while chapter 4 looks at Western colonial history, the roots of classification of social systems, andcultural diversity Supplements: A Study Skills Guide on CD-ROM is included free with each text. Written by Margaret Rauch--former Co-Director of the Academic Learning Center at St. Cloud University--and Robert Lavenda, this unique guide provides extensive suggestions for improving study skills, numerous strategies for studyingthe text, and many hints on taking notes, organizing information, writing essay exams, and taking multiple-choice exams. For each chapter of the text, it provides a review of key terms and sample multiple-choice exam questions. An extensive Instructor's Manual/Test Bank is available on CD-ROM, and resources for both instructors and students can be found online at www.oup.com/us/culturalanthro.

Author Biography

Robert H. Lavenda is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at St. Cloud State University.

Table of Contents

Ethnoprofiles

Preface

The Anthropological Perspective

What Is Anthropology?

The Concept of Culture

The Cross-Disciplinary Discipline

Biological Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Archaeology

Applied Anthropology

The Uses of Anthropology

The Tools Of Cultural Anthropology

Culture And The Human Condition

Explaining Culture and the Human Condition

Cultural Differences

Culture, History, and Human Agency

Writing Against Culture

The Promise of the Anthropological Perspective

Fieldwork

A Meeting of Cultural Traditions

The Fieldwork Experience

Modes of Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Short History

The Dialectic of Fieldwork: Interpretation and Translation

Multi-Sited Fieldwork

The Effects of Fieldwork

The Production of Anthropological Knowledge

Anthropological Knowledge as Open-Ended

Anthropology In History And The Explanation Of Cultural Diversity

Human Imagination and the Material World

Capitalism, Colonialism, and ""Modernity""

Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter

Toward Classifying Forms of Human Society

The Resources Of Culture

Language

Language and Culture

Design Features of Human Language

Language and Context

Linguistic Relativity

Components of Language

Pidgin Languages: Negotiated Meaning

Linguistic Inequality

Language and Truth

Culture and Individuals

Perception

Cognition

Emotion

Emotion in Oceania

Motivation

Personality/Self/Subjectivity

Trauma

Individual Psychology and Context

Play, Art, Myth, and Ritual

Play

Art

Myth

Ritual

Combining Play, Art, Myth, and Ritual

Worldview

From Everyday Experience to Worldview

The Role of Metaphor, Metonymy, and Symbol

Key Metaphors for Constructing Worldviews

Religion

Worldviews in Operation: Three Case Studies

Maintaining and Changing a Worldview

Worldviews as Instruments of Power

Religion and Secularism

The Organization Of Material Life

Social Organization and Power

Varieties of Social Organization

The Search for the Laws of Social Organization

The Power to Act

Power as an Independent Entity

The Power of the Imagination

History as a Prototype of and for Political Action

Negotiating the Meaning of History

Making A Living

Culture and Livelihood

Subsistence Strategies

Phases of Economic Activity

Distribution and Exchange

Production

Consumption

A Dialectic Between the Meaningful and the Material

Systems Of Relationships

Kinship and Gender

Systems of Relatedness: Ways of Organizing Human Interdependence

Patterns of Descent in Kinship

Lineages

Kinship Terminologies

Kinship and Alliance Through Marriage

Adoption

Kinship Extended: Cultures of Relatedness

Kinship and Practice

Kinship: A Framework for Interpreting Life

Marriage And Family

Toward a Definition of Marriage?

Marriage as a Social Process

Marriage and Economic Exchange

Brothers and Sisters in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Family Structure

Transformations in Families over Time

International Migration and the Family

The Flexibility of Marriage

Sexual Practices

Sexuality and Power

Beyond Kinship

Kin-Based Versus Nonkin-Based Societies

Reaching Beyond Kinship

Sodalities

The Dimensions of Group Life

From Global To Local

Dimensions Of Inequality In The Contemporary World: Class, Caste, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism

Class

Caste

Race

Ethnicity

Nation and Nationalism

A Global World

Views of the Political Economy

Cultural Processes in a Global World

Globalization and the Nation-State

Human Rights and Globalization

Cultural Imperialism, Cultural Hybridization, and Cosmopolitalism

Anthropology In Everyday Life

Anthropology Beyond the University

Anthropology and the Challenges of Global Citizenship

Awareness and Uncertainty

Freedom and Constraint

References

Credits

Index

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