Part I. BASIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Chapter 1. Anthropology: What Are Its Subfields and Perspectives?
Chapter 2. Culture: What Makes Us Strangers When We Are Away From Home?
Chapter 3. Fieldwork: How Is Data Gathered?
Chapter 4. Language: Is This What Makes Us Human?
Part II. CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTIVE PATTERNS
Chapter 5. Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation I: What Challenges Face Foragers?
Chapter 6. Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation II: How Did Food Production Transform Culture?
Chapter 7. Marriage, Family, and Residence: What are the Possibilities?
Chapter 8. Kinship and Descent: Are These the Ties That Bind?
Chapter 9. Gender and Sexuality: Nature or Nurture?
Chapter 10. Political Order, Disorder, And Social Control: Who Decides?
Chapter 11. Belief Systems: How Do We Explain the Unexplainable?
Chapter 12. Expressions: Is This Art?
Part III. APPLYING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 13. Culture Change and Globalization: What Have We Learned?
Chapter 14. Applying Anthropology: How Does It Make A Difference?
Appendix A: How Do You Read An Ethnography? Appendix B: How Do You Make String Figures?
Glossary
References
Credits
Index
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