Part Three. Adapting to Our WorldsChapter 9. Food: Getting It, Growing It, Eating It, and Passing It Around
Food and Human Evolution
Food-Collecting Societies
Food-Producing Societies
Which Subsistence Pattern Works Best?
Some Basic Economics
Contemporary Issues: Is There a World Population Crisis That is Putting Pressure on Food and Other Resources?Chapter 10. Nature of the Group: Arranging Our Families and Organizing Our Societies
Primate Societies
Marriage and Family
Kinship
Kinship Terminology
Organization Above the Family Level
Contemporary Issues: Why Don't Bilateral Societies Have Equality Between the Sexes?Chapter 11. Material Culture: The Things We Make and the Things We Leave Behind
Archaeology: Recovering and Interpreting the Cultural Past
Some Prehistoric High Points
Contemporary Issues: Who Owns Archaeological Sites and Their Contents?Chapter 12. Communication: Sharing What We Need to Know
Language
Language and Evolution
Apes and Language
Language and Culture
Contemporary Issues: Are Written Languages More Advanced Then Unwritten Ones?Chapter 13. Maintenance of Order: Making the World View Real
Religion
Variation in Religious Systems
Religion and Culture
Law
Contemporary Issues: How Can We Account for the Recent Interest in Witchcraft?Chapter 14. Cultural Change: Theories and Processes
The Processes of Cultural Change
Applying Anthropology
Theories of Cultural Evolution
Contemporary Issues: Can Anthropology Be Both Scientific and Humanistic? Chapter 15. The Evolution of Our Behaviors: Pigs, Wars, Killer Proteins, and Sorcerers of their Flesh Ye Shall Not Eat
Peaceful Warriors and Cannibal Farmers
Biology and Culture in Interaction
Contemporary Issues: Are Humans Naturally Violent?Chapter 16. Problems and Contributions
Change in the Modern World
Applying Anthropology
The State of the Species
Contemporary Issues: What Kind of Careers are there in Anthropology?