Two new chapters on subsistence strategies and resource allocations provide additional coverage. This was done in response to reviewers who felt that too much material was presented in the single chapter. Each new chapter contains expanded material. Chapter 5, Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation I: What Challenges Face Foragers?, contains more background on models of cultural evolution and cultural ecology and updates on foragers today. Chapter 6, Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation II: How did Food Production Transform Culture?, contains expanded material on agriculture and features associated with intensive agricultural lifeways, material on stratification in chiefdoms and states, and new materials on market exchange and currency use.
New section in Chapter 13 on Anthropology and Globalization includes material on colonialism and hegemony with focus on tourism studies and ethical dilemmas, plus technology and mass communication. Another new section Culture Change: A Brief Historical Overview has material on theory. Substantially revised sections include How Cultures Change and How Change is Studied.
Two new Anthropology Around Us boxes: Chapter 6 “Is Slow Food Making a Fast Comeback,“ and Chapter 9 “Does Gender Effect Attitudes About Circumcision.” Plus substantial update on Chapter 7 box now called “Outdated Traditions?” Other boxes are updated throughout. These boxes focus on current and timely issues that illustrate how the perspectives, topics, and concepts of anthropology are part of our everyday lives.
Text materials are updated throughout.
Expanded glossary and expanded marginal running glossary help students to focus on important terms as they are introduced.
Several new, plus updated chapter openers provide vignettes that relate to the chapter’s contents. Well received in the book’s second edition, these are designed to draw the student into the chapter and to show students the relevance of the topics to their lives.
Chapter 3 Fieldwork includes new ethnographic based material on life shock.
Chapter 7 Marriage, Family, and Residence has an expanded section on sister exchange marriage and an expanded Anthropology Around Us Box that includes marriage finance.
Chapter 8 Kinship and Descent is updated with a clarified section on kindred groups within a bilateral descent systems and a new section on Voluntary Association Groups.
Chapter 10 Political Order, Disorder, and Social Control includes more text discussion on homicide in foraging societies and updated statistics in Table 10.1 on Murder Rates.
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