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    Cultural Anthropology, with Living Anthropology Student CD and PowerWeb by Kottak, Conrad Phillip;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 11
    • Publisher McGraw-Hill Higher Education
    • Date of Publication 1 August 2005

    • ISBN 9780073138756
    • Binding Unidentified
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 274x215x20 mm
    • Weight 1150 g
    • Language English
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    The new edition of Kottak’s best selling text for cultural anthropology emphasizes anthropology's integrated and comparative nature with "Bringing It All Together" essays that show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive feature, "Understanding Ourselves," illustrates the relevance of anthropological facts and theories to students' everyday lives. In addition, every new copy of the eleventh edition is packaged free with a new student CD-ROM as well as PowerWeb!

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    Table of Contents:

    About the Author

    Preface

    Walkthrough



    Part One: The Dimensions of Anthropology

    Chapter 1: What Is Anthropology?

    Overview

    Human Adaptability

    Adaptation, Variation, and Change

    General Anthropology

    Cultural Forces Shape Human Biology

    The Subdisciplines of Anthropology

    Cultural Anthropology

    Archaeological Anthropology

    Biological, or Physical Anthropology

    Interesting Issues: Even Anthropologists Get Culture Shock

    Beyond the Classroom: The Utility of Hand and Foot Bones for Problems in Biological Anthropology

    Linguistic Anthropology

    Applied Anthropology

    Anthropology and Other Academic Fields

    Cultural Anthropology and Sociology

    Anthropology and Psychology

    Science, Explanation, and Hypothesis Testing



    Chapter 2: Applying Anthropology

    What Is Applied Anthropology?

    Academic and Applied Anthropology

    Theory and Practice

    Anthropology and Education

    Urban Anthropology

    Urban versus Rural

    Medical Anthropology

    Beyond the Classroom: New Life, Good Health

    Anthropology and Business

    Careers and Anthropology

    Interesting Issues: Hot Asset in Corporate: Anthropology Degrees



    Part Two: Cultural Diversity

    Chapter 3: Ethics and Methods in Cultural Anthology

    Ethics

    Methods---Ethnography

    Ethnographic Techniques

    Observation and Participant Observation

    Conversation, Interviewing, and Interview Schedule

    The Genealogical Method

    Key Cultural Consultants

    Life Histories

    Local Beliefs and Perceptions, and the Ethnographer's

    The Evolution of Ethnography

    Problem-Oriented Ethnography

    Longitudinal Research

    Team Research

    Culture, Space, and Scale

    Survey Research

    Beyond the Classroom: Stories from the Women Domestics of the Yucatan



    Chapter 4: Culture

    What Is Culture?

    Culture Is Learned

    Culture Is Shared

    Interesting Issues: Touching, Affection, Love, and Sex

    Culture Is Symbolic

    Culture and Nature

    Culture Is All-Encompassing

    Culture Is Integrated

    Culture Can Be Adaptive and Maladaptive

    Culture and the Individual: Agency and Practice

    Levels of Culture

    Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, and Human Rights

    Universality, Generality, and Particularity

    Universality

    Generality

    Particularity: Patterns of Culture

    Beyond the Classroom: Folklore Reveals Ethos of Heating Plant Workers

    Mechanisms of Cultural Change

    Globalization



    Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Race

    Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity

    Status Shifting

    Race

    Social Race

    Hypodescent: Race in the United States

    Beyond the Classroom: Perceptions of Race and Skin Color on an American College Campus

    Race in the Census

    Not Us: Race in Japan

    Phenotype and Fluidity: Race in Brazil

    Stratification and "Intelligence"

    Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Nationalities

    Nationalities and Imagined Communities

    Peaceful Coexistence

    Assimilation

    The Plural Society

    Multiculturalism and Ethnic Identity

    Interesting Issues: Ethnic Nationalism Runs Wild

    Roots of Ethnic Conflict

    Prejudice and Discrimination

    Chips in the Mosaic

    Aftermaths of Oppression



    Chapter 6: Language and Communication

    What Is Language?

    Animal Communication

    Call Systems

    Sign Language

    The Origin of Language

    Nonverbal Communication

    The Structure of Language

    Speech Sounds

    Language, Thought, and Culture

    Interesting Issues: Do Midwesterner's Have Accents?

    The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

    Focal Vocabulary

    Meaning

    Sociolinguistics

    Linguistic Diversity

    Gender Speech Contrasts

    Language and Status Position

    Stratification

    Black English Vernacular (BEV), a.k.a. "Ebonics"

    Beyond the Classroom: Cybercommunication in Collegespace

    Historical Linguistics

    Bringing It All Together: Canada: Unity and Diversity in Culture and Language



    Chapter 7: Making a Living

    Adaptive Strategies

    Foraging

    Correlates of Foraging

    Beyond the Classroom: Integrating Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Analytic Subsistence Data: A Case Study from Patagonia, South America

    Cultivation

    Horticulture

    Agriculture

    The Cultivation Continuum

    Intensification: People and the Environment

    Pastoralism

    Modes of Production

    Production in Nonindustrial Societies

    Means of Production

    Alienation in Industrial Economies

    Economizing and Maximization

    Alternative Ends

    Interesting Issues: Scarcity and the Betsileo

    Distribution, Exchange

    The Market Principle

    Redistribution

    Reciprocity

    Coexistence of Exchange Principles

    Potlatching



    Chapter 8: Political Systems

    What Is "The Political?"

    Types and Trends

    Bands and Tribes

    Foraging Bands

    Tribal Cultivators

    The Village Head

    The "Big Man"

    Pantribal Sodalities and Age Grades

    Nomadic Politics

    Beyond the Classroom: Perspectives on Group Membership

    Chiefdoms

    Political and Economic Systems in Chiefdoms

    Social Status in Chiefdoms

    Status Systems in Chiefdoms and States

    States

    Population Control

    Judiciary

    Enforcement

    Fiscal Systems

    Social Control: Politics, Shame, and Sorcery



    Chapter 9: Families, Kinship, and Descent

    Families

    Nuclear and Extended Families

    Industrialism and Family Organization

    Changes in North American Kinship

    The Family among Foragers

    Descent

    Descent Groups

    Lineages, Clans, and Residence Rules

    Ambilineal Descent

    Family versus Descent

    Kinship Calculation

    Genealogical Kin Types and Kin Terms

    Interesting Issues: Social Security, Kinship Style

    Kinship Terminology

    Lineal Terminology

    Bifurcate Merging Terminology

    Generational Terminology

    Bifurcate Collateral Terminology



    Chapter 10: Marriage

    What Is Marriage?



    Incest and Exogamy

    Explaining the Taboo

    Instinctive Horror

    Biological Degeneration

    Attempt and Contempt

    Marry Out or Die Out

    Endogamy

    Caste

    Royal Incest

    Marital Rights and Same-Sex Marriage

    Beyond the Classroom: Human Mate Preference in Matrimonial Advertisements from Gujarat, India

    Marriage as Group Alliance

    Bridewealth and Dowry

    Durable Alliances

    Interesting Issues: Love and Marriage

    Divorce

    Plural Marriages

    Polygyny

    Polyandry



    Chapter 11: Gender

    Sex and Gender

    Recurrent Gender Patterns

    Gender among Foragers

    Gender among Horticulturist

    Reduced Gender Stratification--Matrilineal, Matrilocal Societies

    Reduced Gender Stratification--Matrifocal Societies

    Increased Gender Stratification--Patrilineal-Patrilocal Societies

    Gender among Agriculturalists

    Patriarchy and Violence

    Gender and Industrialism

    The Feminization of Poverty

    Sexual Orientation

    Interesting Issues: Hidden Women, Public Men---Public Women, Hidden Men

    Bringing It All Together: The Basques



    Chapter 12: Religion

    What Is Religion?

    Origins, Functions, and Expressions of Religion

    Animism

    Mana and Taboo

    Magic and Religion

    Anxiety, Control, Solace

    Rituals

    Rites of Passage

    Totemism

    Religion and Cultural Ecology

    Sacred Cattle in India

    Social Control

    Beyond the Classroom: Ewe Traditional and Biomedical Healing Practices in Ghana's Volta Region

    Kinds of Religion

    Religion in States

    Christian Values

    World Religions

    Religion and Change

    Revitalization Movements

    Syncretisms

    Antimodernism and Fundamentalism

    A New Age

    Secular Rituals



    Chapter 13: The Arts

    What Is Art?

    Art and Religion

    Locating Art

    Art and Individuality

    The Work of Art

    Art, Society, and Culture

    The Cultural Transmission of the Arts

    Interesting Issues: I'll Get You, My Pretty, and Your Little R2

    The Artistic Career

    Beyond the Classroom: Capoeira: The Afro-Brazilian Art of Unity and Survival

    Continuity and Change



    Part Three: The Changing World

    Chapter 14: The Modern World System

    The Emergence of the World System

    Industrialization

    Causes of the Industrial Revolution

    Stratification

    Industrial Stratification

    Asian Factory Women

    Open and Closed Class Systems

    Beyond the Classroom: The Residue of Apartheid in Southern Africa

    The World System Today

    Interesting Issues: The American Periphery

    Industrial Degradation



    Chapter 15: Colonialism and Development

    Colonialism

    Imperialism

    British Colonialism

    French Colonialism

    Colonialism and Identity

    Postcolonial Studies

    Development

    Neoliberalism

    The Second World

    Communism

    Postsocialist Transitions

    Development Anthropology

    The Greening of Java

    Equity

    Strategies for Innovation

    Overinnovation

    Underdifferentiation

    Third World Models



    Chapter 16: Cultural Exchange and Survival

    Acculturation

    Contact and Domination

    Development and Environmentalism

    Religious Change

    Resistance and Survival

    Interesting Issues: Voices of the Rainforest

    Weapons of the Weak

    Beyond the Classroom: Forging Activist Identities in the Kalaupapa Community of Leprosy Patients

    Cultural Imperialism

    Making and Remaking Culture

    Popular
    Culture

    Indigenizing Popular Culture

    Interesting Issues: Using Modern Technology to Preserve Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

    A World System of Images

    A Transnational Culture of Consumption

    People in Motion

    The Continuance of Diversity

    Bringing It All Together: The Biology and Culture of Overconsumption



    Appendix 1: A History of Theories in Anthropology

    Appendix 2: Ethics and Anthropology

    Appendix 3: American Popular Culture

    Bibliography

    Glossary

    Credits

    Name Index

    Subject Index

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