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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Culture counts
    sub title: a concise introduction to cultural anthropology
  name:
    name part: Nanda, Serena
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Warms, Richard L.
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: Third edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 408 pages ; 23 cm.
  table of contents: 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 -- A…
  table of contents: 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 -- Ca…
  note: Serena Nanda, Richard L. Warms.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-408) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Ethnologie
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  classification: GN316 .N364 2015
  classification: 306
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cengage advantage books
  identifier: 9781285738512
  identifier: 1285738519
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 131031
    record change date: 20240702192525.8
    record identifier: in00004794959
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng