Cultural Anthropology - Interactive eBook

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Serena Nanda - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Richard L. Warms - Texas State University - San Marcos, USA

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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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