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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
Part I. BASIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
1. The Perspective of Anthropology
2. Culture: What Makes You a Stranger When You Are Away From Home
3. Fieldwork
4. Symbolic Communication and Culture
Part II. CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTIVE PATTERNS
5. We All Have to Eat: Obtaining Food and Allocating Resources
6. The Ties That Bind: Kinship and FamilyKinship Relationships
7. Gender and Sexuality Cross-Culturally
8. Who Decides? Political Order, Disorder, and Social Control
9. Explaining the Unexplainable: Comparative Supernaturalism
10. Expressions
Part III. APPLYING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE