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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 2900205512668 |
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Publisher: | Pearson |
Publication date: | 09/06/2006 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 512 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d) |
Table of Contents
Each chapter concludes with a “Chapter Summary,” “Key Terms,” “Questions to Think About,” and “Suggestions for Further Reading.”
1. The Study of Human Diversity.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Introduction.
The Fields of Anthropology.
Anthropology and Other Disciplines.
Key Concepts in Anthropology.
Doing Anthropology: Find the Connections.
Focus Culture: Finding the Connections in Contemporary Bali.
Seeing Anthropology: The Goddess and the Computer.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Cultural Interaction in “Passage to India.”
2. Understanding Culture.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Defining Culture.
Focus Culture: Shared Malay Traditions and Local Variations.
Doing Anthropology: Societies, Cultures, and Subcultures.
The Concept of Race.
The Interaction of Biology and Culture.
Seeing Anthropology: Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex in Malaysia.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Cultural Construction of Race in Rabbit-Proof Fence.
3. Doing Anthropology: Fieldwork and Theories.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Doing Fieldwork.
Focus Culture: Fieldwork Among the Grand Valley Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia (West New Guinea).
Focus Culture: Complexities of Japanese Culture.
SeeingAnthropology: Fieldwork in Neighborhood Tokyo.
Writing an Ethnography.
Anthropological Theories: How We Account for Cultural Behavior.
Doing Anthropology: Recognizing the Theory.
Seeing Anthropology: Fieldwork Among the Grand Valley Dani: Dead Birds.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Different Versions in Rashomon.
4. Meanings: Language, Symbols, and Art.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Language.
Doing Anthropology: Full-Channel Shakespeare.
Symbols, Art, and Identity.
Focus Culture: Art and Ceremony of the Kwa Kwaka' Wakw of the Northwest Coast.
Seeing Anthropology: Art and Identity of the Kwa Kwaka’Wakw: Box of Treasures.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: The Cultural Translation of Darmok.
5. Psychology and Culture.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Cultures, Personality, and the Self.
Focus Culture: Cultural Themes in Vietnam.
Learning Styles.
Cognition.
Doing Anthropology: A New Intelligence Test.
Emotions.
Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Themes in Vietnam: How to Behave (Chuyen Tute).
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Individualism and Groupism in Mr. Baseball.
6. Patterns of Production.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Cultural Adaptation and Production.
The Division of Labor.
Food Production Strategies.
Focus Culture: Horticulture of the Grand Valley Dani.
Doing Anthropology: Food Production Strategies in a Supermarket Culture.
Seeing Anthropology: A Horticultural Strategy: Dani Sweet Potatoes.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Family Farms in The Milagro Beanfield War.
7. Distribution and Consumption.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Distribution: Mechanisms of Exchange.
Focus Culture: The Redistributive Cargo System of the Zinacantan Mayans of Chiapas, Mexico.
Seeing Anthropology: Appeals to Santiago.
Doing Anthropology: Your Own Transactions.
Consumption-Food.
Doing Anthropology: Global Consumption.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: The Mystique of Food in Tampopo.
8. Marriage and Family.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Definitions and Functions of Marriage.
Forms of Marriage.
Doing Anthropology: Schemas of Love and Marriage.
Marriage as Exchange.
Marriage Rules.
Focus Culture: Marriage and Family in India.
Family and Household Forms.
Postmarital Residence Patterns.
Changing Family Forms in Western Cultures.
Seeing Anthropology: A Joint Family in North India: Dadi’s Family .
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Family Forms in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
9. Social Organization and Kinship.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Class as Category.
Descent Groups.
Focus Culture: Patrilineal Descent of the Nuer of the Upper Nile.
Kinship Terminology Systems.
Non-kin Groupings.
Doing Anthropology: A Second Look at Your Social Groups.
Seeing Anthropology: Social Organization and The Nuer.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Social Organization in Whale Rider.
10. Power and Politics.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Power.
Social Control.
Doing Anthropology: Backpacks on Campus.
Focus Culture: Adjudication in a Kpelle Village.
Seeing Anthropology: The Cows of Dolo Ken Paye: Resolving Conflict among the Kpelle.
Patterns and Causes of War.
The Nature of Peace.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Slavery, Revolt, and Adjudication in Amistad.
11. Facing the Supernatural: Magic, Religion, and Ritual
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Looking for the Roots of Religion.
Doing Anthropology: Magic, Science, and Religion.
Sacred Power.
Rituals.
World Religions and Local Practices.
Focus Culture: Religion and Ritual in Egypt.
Seeing Anthropology: El Sebou’, Egyptian Birth Ritual.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Tibetan Buddhism in The Cup (Phörpa).
12. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality.
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Differentiating Sexuality and Gender.
How Many Genders? How Many Sexualities? The Puzzle of Homosexuality.
The Role of Gender in Society.
Manifestations of Sexuality.
Doing Anthropology: Expressive Clothing.
Sexual Ethos.
Focus Culture: Gender and Sexuality of the Ju/'hoansi.
Seeing Anthropology: N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Bend it Like Beckham: Femininity and Football in Multicultural Britain.
13. Culture Change.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Forces of Change.
Doing Anthropology: Nailing Down Language Change.
Focus Culture: The Changing Trobriand Islands.
Indigenous Rights in a Changing World.
Seeing Anthropology: Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Rediscovering Native American Cultural Identity in Smoke Signals.
14. Medical Anthropology and the Future.
Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.
Medical Anthropology.
Seeing Anthropology: Indigenous Interpretation and Treatment of Illness: The Medium is the Masseuse, A Balinese Massage.
Focus Culture: The Suffering and Pain of the Khmer.
Seeing Anthropology: House of Spirit: Perspectives on Cambodian Health Care.
The Anthropology of HIV/AIDS.
Doing Anthropology: Illness and Culture.
Final Thoughts.
Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Medical Anthropology and “Medicine Man.”
Appendix: Thinking About Ethnographic Films.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.