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What's New-
Revised and expanded chapter summaries give students a clearly defined outline of the chapter.
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Two new chapters (13 and 14), drawn from an original chapter in the previous edition, offer a new section on the Role of Anthropologists in Directed Culture Change (Applied Anthropology) in the new chapter 13.
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New chapter-by-chapter suggested readings and web sites offer references for further study.
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A revised chapter 1 gives students a clear introduction to get them started in the course. New content in chapter 1 has been added on cooking and the evolution of culture.
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New content on world Englishes and the global spread of English can be found in chapter 3.
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Chapter 5 includes new content on food symbolism and the caste system and body symbolism.
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Chapter 6 adds new information on the impact of biological technologies on kinship, and a section on the Na – a still strongly matrilineal society in Southwest China.
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Chapter 7 includes new content on how contemporary hunters and gathers have adapted to the modern world and newer adaptations of agriculturalists.
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Chapter 8 adds new material on whether nomadic pastoralism can still be maintained, barter in contemporary Russia, capitalism and the market economy and globalization and the changing nature of consumption in third world societies.
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New Content on the anthropology of violence and an anthropological analysis of contemporary warlords can be found in chapter 9.
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Chapter 11 includes a new section on “The Sopranos” and myths about the Mafia.
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Chapter 15 adds a new section called Afghanistan: The Conflict between Ethnic Culture and Nation Building and a new section on the African-Americans living in the Sea Islands off the Carolinas.
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education