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Cultural Anthropology - Interactive eBook
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Cultural Anthropology - Interactive eBook

12th Edition
  • Serena Nanda - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
  • Richard L. Warms - Texas State University - San Marcos, USA
February 2019 | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Part I: INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
 
Chapter 1. Anthropology and Human Diversity
Specialization in Anthropology

 
Some Critical Issues in Anthropology

 
Why Study Anthropology?

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 2. Doing Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology in Historical Perspective

 
Anthropological Techniques

 
Some Critical Issues in Ethnography

 
Ethical Considerations in Fieldwork

 
New Roles for the Ethnographer

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 3. The Idea of Culture
Defining Culture

 
Culture Is Made Up of Learned Behaviors

 
Culture Is the Way Humans Use Symbols to Classify Their World and Give It Meaning

 
Culture Is an Integrated System—Or Is It?

 
Culture Is a Shared System of Norms and Values—Or Is It?

 
Culture Is the Way Human Beings Adapt to the World

 
Culture Is Constantly Changing

 
Culture Counts

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 4. Communication
Origins and Acquisition of Human Language

 
The Structure of Language

 
Language and Culture

 
Nonverbal Communication

 
Language Change

 
Summary

 
 
Part II: EQUALITIES AND INEQUALITIES
 
Chapter 5. Making a Living.
Human Adaptation and the Environment

 
An Overview of Subsistence Strategies

 
Foraging

 
Pastoralism

 
Horticulture

 
Agriculture

 
Industrialism

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 6. Economics.
Economic Behavior

 
Allocating Resources

 
Organizing Labor

 
Distribution: Systems of Exchange and Consumption

 
Capitalism

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 7. Political Organization.
Kinship: Relationships through Blood and Marriage

 
Unilineal Descent Groups

 
Nonunilineal Kinship Systems

 
The Classification of Kin

 
Principles for Classifying Kin

 
Types of Kinship Systems

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 8. Stratification
Functions of Marriage and the Family

 
Marriage Rules

 
Monogamy, Polygyny, and Polyandry

 
Exchange of Goods and Rights in Marriage

 
Different Kinds of Families

 
Families and Globalization

 
Summary

 
 
Part III: FAMILIES IN SOCIETY.
 
Chapter 9. Kinship
Sex, Sexuality, and Gender

 
The Cultural Construction of Gender

 
Gender Ideologies: Women’s Sexuality and Male Prestige Behavior

 
Controlling Female Sexuality

 
Variability in Gender and Sexuality

 
Theories of Gender and Stratification

 
Gender Relations and Systems of Production

 
Gender and Globalization

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 10. Marriage, Family, and Domestic Groups.
Social Differentiation

 
Power and Social Control

 
Types of Political Organization

 
The Nation-State

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 11. Gender
Explaining Social Stratification

 
Criteria of Stratification: Power, Wealth, and Prestige

 
Class and Caste in Social Stratification

 
Stratification and Race

 
Stratification and Ethnicity

 
Summary

 
 
Part IV: SYMBOLS AND MEANINGS.
 
Chapter 12. Religion.
What Religion Does in Society

 
Characteristics of Religion

 
Rituals and Ways of Addressing the Supernatural

 
Religious Practitioners

 
Religion and Change

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 13. Creative Expression: Anthropology and the Arts
Art in Its Cultural Context

 
Some Functions of Art

 
Art, Culture, and Symbolism

 
Art and the Expression of Cultural Themes

 
Art and Politics

 
Art and the Expression of Identities

 
Art and Representing the Other

 
Marketing World Art

 
Summary

 
 
Part V: CULTURE CHANGE.
 
Chapter 14. Power, Conquest, and a World System.
European Expansion: Motives and Methods

 
The Era of Colonialism

 
Making Colonialism Pay

 
Decolonization

 
An Interconnected but Unstable World

 
Summary

 
 
Chapter 15. Culture Change and the Modern World.
The Changing Political and Economic Environment

 
The Persistence of Poverty and Instability

 
Multinational Corporations

 
Urbanization

 
Population Pressure

 
Environmental Challenges

 
The Rights of Indigenous People

 
Summary

 
 
Appendix.
19th-Century Evolutionism

 
The Early Sociologists

 
Boas and American Anthropology

 
Functionalism

 
Culture and Personality

 
Cultural Ecology and Neo-Evolutionism

 
Neomaterialism: Evolutionary, Functionalist, Ecological, and Marxist

 
Structuralism

 
Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology

 
Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavioral Ecology

 
Anthropology and Gender

 
Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology

 
Postmodernism

 
Anthropology and Globalization

 
Structure and Agency: Practice Theory approaches

 

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