Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, 5/e
Conrad Phillip Kottak,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
ISBN: 0073530905 Copyright year: 2007
New to This Edition
Throughout the book, charts, tables, and statistics have been updated with the most recent figures available. Five new end-of-chapter boxes and one substantially revised box are intended to bring home anthropology’s relevance to current debates, issues, and events.
New information on urban growth in developing countries has been added to Chapter 1 (“Anthropology and Its Applications”).
In Chapter 2 (“Ethics and Methods)” there is a new section entitled “Culture, Space, and Scale” and a new box on field work.
Chapter 3 (“Culture”) has been updated based on recent writing and statistics. There is a new section on “Culture and the Individual: Agency and Practice,” plus an expanded and clarified discussion of cultural particularities and patterns of culture. The section on globalization has been revised and updated.
Chapter 4 (“Ethnicity and Race”) has been updated thoroughly, with the most recent sources and census data available in several key tables and new visuals. There is a new box on Basque ethnicity in Europe and the United States.
In Chapter 5 (“Language and Communication”) the ebonics section has been revised substantially, with new information on creole languages.
Chapter 6 (“Making a Living”) has been updated throughout, with an added case study of industrial alienation and a revised box on changing concepts of scarcity among the Betsileo.
Chapter 7 (“Political Systems”) has been revised, updated, and slightly reorganized, with a new introductory section entitled “What is ‘the Political’?”.
In Chapter 8 (“Families, Kinship, and Marriage”) there is new case material on divorce, and same-sex marriage has been revised to reflect recent legal actions and events in the U.S. and Canada. There is a new box on “Social Security, Kinship Style.”
In Chapter 9 (“Gender”) the latest relevant census data are included. The section on patriarchy has been revised, as has the section on sexual orientation.
Chapter 10 (“Religion”) features a new introduction and a new box on Islam’s expansion, an expanded discussion of defining religion, and new examples of magical and religious behavior in the contemporary United States.
Chapter 11 (“The Modern World System”) has been updated and revised, with new discussions of outsourcing and global energy consumption (illustrated with a new table).
Chapter 12 (“Colonialism and Development”) has been revised heavily. There are new sections on neoliberalism, Communism and its fall, and postsocialist transitions.
Chapter 13 (“Cultural Exchange and Survival”) has a new box on global cultural diversity.
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