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| Specialization in Anthropology |
| Some Critical Issues in Anthropology |
| Why Study Anthropology? |
| Summary |
| Anthropology in Historical Perspective |
| Anthropological Techniques |
| Some Critical Issues in Ethnography |
| Ethical Considerations in Fieldwork |
| New Roles for the Ethnographer |
| Summary |
| 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 |
| Origins and Acquisition of Human Language |
| The Structure of Language |
| Language and Culture |
| Nonverbal Communication |
| Language Change |
| Summary |
| Human Adaptation and the Environment |
| An Overview of Subsistence Strategies |
| Foraging |
| Pastoralism |
| Horticulture |
| Agriculture |
| Industrialism |
| Summary |
| Economic Behavior |
| Allocating Resources |
| Organizing Labor |
| Distribution: Systems of Exchange and Consumption |
| Capitalism |
| Summary |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Social Differentiation |
| Power and Social Control |
| Types of Political Organization |
| The Nation-State |
| Summary |
| Explaining Social Stratification |
| Criteria of Stratification: Power, Wealth, and Prestige |
| Class and Caste in Social Stratification |
| Stratification and Race |
| Stratification and Ethnicity |
| Summary |
| What Religion Does in Society |
| Characteristics of Religion |
| Rituals and Ways of Addressing the Supernatural |
| Religious Practitioners |
| Religion and Change |
| Summary |
| 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 |
| European Expansion: Motives and Methods |
| The Era of Colonialism |
| Making Colonialism Pay |
| Decolonization |
| An Interconnected but Unstable World |
| Summary |
| 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 |
| 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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