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Introducing Cultural Anthropology, 5/e

Roberta Edwards Lenkeit, Modesto Junior College

ISBN: 0078034876
Copyright year: 2012

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Preface
Notes to Students

PART ONE
BASIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  1 Anthropology: What Are Its Subfields and Perspectives?
  2 Culture: What Makes Us Strangers When We Are Away from Home?
  3 Fieldwork: How Are Data Gathered?
  4 Language: Is This What Makes Us Human?

PART TWO
CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTIVE PATTERNS
  5 Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation I: What Challenges Face Foragers?
  6 Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation II: How Did Food Production Transform Culture?
  7 Marriage, Family, and Residence: What Are the Possibilities?
  8 Kinship and Descent: Are These the Ties That Bind?
  9 Gender and Sexuality: Nature or Nurture?
10 Political Order, Disorder, and Social Control: Who Decides?
11 Belief Systems: How Do We Explain the Unexplainable?
12 Expressions: Is This Art?

PART THREE
APPLYING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
13 Culture Change and Globalization: What Have We Learned?
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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