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Dedication
Preface
About the Editors
Correlation Charts to Four-Field Introductory Anthropology Books

Chapter One: What is Anthropology?
“Transforming the Culture of Intolerance” by Mark Nathan Cohen

Chapter Two: Applying Anthropology
“The Archaeology of Grief” by Sylvia Grider
“Breastfeeding and Culture” by Katherine A. Dettwyler

Chapter Three: Ethics and Methods in Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
“They Died with Custer: Preface/Prelude” by Douglas D. Scott, P. Willey and Melissa A. Connor
“The Case of the Purloined Pots” by Kent Black

Chapter Four: Evolution and Genetics
“Reading the Language of Our Ancestors” by Jeff Wheelwright
“15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense” by John Rennie

Chapter Five: The Primates
“Aping Culture” by Meredith Small
“Disturbing Behaviors of the Orangutan” by Anne Nacey Maccioncalda and Robert M. Sapolsky

Chapter Six: Primate Evolution
“In the Realm of Virtual Reality” by Richard Conniff and Harry Marshall

Chapter Seven: Early Hominids
“Not Out of Africa: Alan Thorne's Challenging Ideas about Human Evolution” by Joseph D'Agnese
“Eating Right: Lessons Learned from our Prehistoric Ancestors” by Vaughn M. Bryant

Chapter Eight: Modern Humans
“The Evolution of Human Birth” by Karen R. Rosenberg and Wenda R. Trevathan
“Care-Worn Fossils: Bones Reopen Controversy about Ancient Assistance” by Bruce Bower

Chapter Nine: Human Diversity and “Race”
“Race Counts” by David Berreby
“Interracial Generation: We Are Who We Are” by Daryl Strickland

Chapter Ten: The First Farmers
“First to Ride” by William Speed Weed
“Invisible Clues to New World Plant Domestication” by Vaughn M. Bryant
“Who Were the First Americans?” by Sasha Nemecek

Chapter Eleven: The First Cities and States
“1491” by Charles C. Mann

Chapter Twelve: Ethics and Methods in Cultural Anthropology
“Bad Breath, Gangrene, and God's Angels” by Katherine A. Dettwyler
“Too Many Bananas, Not Enough Pineapples, and No Watermelon at All: Three Object Lessons in Living with Reciprocity” by David Counts

Chapter Thirteen: Culture
“They Live and Breathe Letterboxing” by Chris Granstrom and “Thinking Inside the Box” by Caroline Kettlewell
“A Woman's Curse? From Taboo to Time Bomb: Rethinking Menstruation” by Meredith Small

Chapter Fourteen: Ethnicity
“Pais de mis Sueños: Reflections on Ethnic Labels, Dichotomies, and Ritual Interactions” by Gisela Ernst
“People of the Reindeer” by John F. Ross

Chapter Fifteen: Language and Communication
“Face the Music” by Susan Milius
“Last Words” by Payal Sampat

Chapter Sixteen: Making a Living
“A Fair Share of the Pie” by Bruce Bower
“Sea Hunters of Lamalera” by Fred Bruemmer

Chapter Seventeen: Political Systems
“The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery” by Kevin Bales
“A Tribal Chair's Perspective on Inherent Sovereignty” by Billy Evans Horse and Luke Eric Lassiter

Chapter Eighteen: Families, Kinship, and Descent
““Soup Night”: Community Creation through Foodways” by Lin T. Humphrey

Chapter Nineteen: Marriage
“Land of the Walking Marriage” by Lu Yuan and Sam Mitchell

Chapter Twenty: Gender
“The Five Sexes, Revisited” by Anne Fausto-Sterling
“Multiple Genders Among North American Indians” by Serena Nanda

Chapter Twenty-One: Religion
“The Religious Success Story” by Jared Diamond
““From Here On, I Will Be Praying to You”: Indian Churches, Kiowa Hymns, and Native American Christianity in Southwestern Oklahoma” by Luke Eric Lassiter

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Arts
“Mysterious Island” by Paul Trachtman

Chapter Twenty-Three: The Modern World System
“Trading Places” by Paul Stoller

Chapter Twenty-Four: Colonialism and Development
“The Himba and the Dam” by Carol Ezzell

Chapter Twenty-Five: Cultural Exchange and Survival
“Birth” by Anne Fadiman and “UC Davis Book Selection Hits Home for one Sacramento Family” by Diana Griego Erwin
“Patio Man and the Sprawl People” by David Brooks