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a concise introduction to cultural anthropology
1. What is anthropology and why should I care? -- The Nacirema -- Biological or physical anthropology -- Linguistic anthropology -- Archaeology -- Cultural anthropology -- Applied anthropology -- Forensic anthropology -- Anthropology and "race" -- The anthropology of violence -- 2. Culture counts -- Feral children -- Learned behaviors -- Symbols to organize and give meaning to the world -- Culturally specific diseases : the case of Lia Lee -- Symbols and meaning -- Culture is an integrated system -- Shared system of norms and values -- The way human beings adapt to the world -- Is there an American culture? -- 3. Doing cultural anthropology -- Anger management in Indonesia -- Franz boas and American anthropology -- From Haddon to Malinowski in England and the Commonwealth -- Anthropological techniques -- Ethnographic data and cross-cultural comparisons -- Changing directions and critical issues in ethnography -- Anthropology and gender -- Postmodernism -- Engaged and collaborative ethnography -- Using anthropology : a life in engaged anthropology -- Studying one's own society -- Ethical considerations in fieldwork --Anthropology and the military -- New roles for ethnographers -- Anthropologists and human rights -- 4. Communication -- Why don't you speak good? -- The origins and characteristics of human language -- The structure of language -- Using anthropology : forensic linguistics -- Language and social stratification -- The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- Nonverbal communication -- Language change -- Language and culture contact -- Tracing relationships among languages -- English only -- 5. Making a living -- Where have all the icebergs gone? -- Human adaptation and the environment -- Major types of subsistence strategies -- Foraging -- Pastoralism -- Horticulture -- Using anthropology : anthropologists and nutrition -- Agriculture -- Industrialism -- The global marketplace -- Globalization and food choice -- 6. Economics -- Ultimate dictator -- Economic behavior -- Allocating resources -- Organizing labor -- Specialization in complex societies -- Distribution : systems of exchange and consumption -- Reciprocity -- Using anthropology : gifts, bribes, and social networks -- Redistribution -- Market exchange -- Capitalism -- Resistance to capitalism -- Product anthropology -- 7. Political organization -- The Arab Spring -- Political organization -- Power and authority -- Social control and conflict management -- Types of political organization -- Band societies -- Tribal societies -- Warfare in tribal societies -- Chiefdoms -- State societies -- The emergence of the nation-state -- The nation-state and ethnicity -- The nation-state and indigenous peoples -- Using anthropology : advocating for the Chagossians -- Do good fences make good neighbors? --
8. Stratification : class, caste, race, and ethnicity -- Exploited children : victims and survivors -- Explaining social stratification -- Criteria for stratification : power, wealth and prestige -- Class systems -- The American Class System -- The material basis of class in the United States : growing inequalities -- Using anthropology : homelessness and social action -- Caste -- The Caste System in India -- Changes in the Caste System -- Race : a cultural construction -- Racial classification in Brazil -- Race and racial stratification in the United States -- Ethnicity and stratification -- Ethnic stratification in the United States -- Muslim immigrants after 9/11 in the United States -- Latino immigrants and social stratification in the United States -- The voices of new immigrants -- 9. Marriage, family and kinship -- A society without marriage : the Na of China -- Forms and functions of marriage -- Marriage rules -- Incest taboos -- Preferential marriages -- Number of spouses -- Choosing a mate -- The exchange of goods and rights of marriage -- Bride service and bridewealth -- Dowry -- Family structures, households, and rules of residence -- Nuclear families -- Composite families -- Extended families -- Using anthropology : families adapting to globalization -- Kinship systems : relationships through blood and marriage -- Rules of descent and the formation of descent groups -- Bilateral kinship systems -- Caring for the elderly -- 10. Sex and gender -- The hijras : an alternative gender in India -- Sex and gender as cultural constructions -- Creative expressions of gender : deep play and masculine identity -- Cultural variation in sexual behavior -- Gender ideology and women's sexuality -- Male and female rites of passage -- Female rites of passage -- Power and prestige : gender stratification -- Gender relations : complex and variable -- Using anthropology : economic development for women -- Violence against women and the cultural defense -- 11. Religion -- Cargo cults -- Characteristics of religion -- Sacred narratives -- Symbols and symbolism -- Supernatural beings, powers, states, and qualities -- Rituals and ways of addressing the supernatural -- Religious practitioners -- Using anthropology : magic, witchcraft and HIV/AIDS -- Religion and change -- Varieties of religious prophecy -- Fundamentalism and religious change -- Religion, art, and censorship -- 12. Creative expression : anthropology and the arts -- World music : the local goes global -- The arts -- The functions of art -- Art and ritual : Paleolithic cave art -- Art and the representation of cultural themes -- Manga and Anime in Japan -- Deep play -- Art and politics -- Using anthropology : the multiple roles of museums -- Art and historical narratives -- Art and the expression of identities -- Body art and cultural identity -- Art and personal identity : Fritz Scholder, Indian and Not Indian -- Art and representation of the other -- Orientalism in European art : picturing the Middle East -- World art -- Tourism and world art -- Marketing indigenous arts -- 13. Power, conquest, and a world system -- Veterans of colonial armies -- Making the modern world -- European expansion : motives and methods -- Pillage -- Forced labor -- Joint stock companies -- The Era of Colonialism -- Colonization, 1500 to 1800 -- Colonizing in the 19th century -- Using anthropology : unpleasant history -- Colonialism and anthropology -- Decolonization, neocolonialism, and postcolonialism -- The limits of tolerance -- 14. Culture, change, and globalization -- Wealth and poverty : global perspectives -- Development -- Modernization theory -- Human needs approaches -- Structural adjustment -- Development anthropology and the anthropology of development -- Multinational corporations -- Sweatshop labor -- Electronics, Apple, and Foxconn -- Urbanization -- Population pressure -- Environmental challenges : pollution -- Global warming -- Political instability -- Using anthropology : helping refugees -- Migration -- America as a foreign culture -- Glossary.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-408) and index.