Cultural Anthropology A Contemporary Perspective

Name: Cultural Anthropology A Contemporary Perspective
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ISBN: 9780030475825

ISBN-10: 0030475821

ISBN-13: 9780030475825

Edition: 3rd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Roger M. Keesing, Andrew Strathern, Robert L. Dipboye

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Cultural Anthropology is a sophisticated synthesis of social and cultural anthropology. Keesing was concerned with the political and ethical implications of anthropological research and the 85 up-dated case studies illustrate this.

Book details

List price: $171.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 11/14/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English



Preface


List of Cases



Culture, Society, and the Individual



The Anthropological Approach



Culture and People: Some Basic Concepts



Language and Communication



Culture and the Individual



Tribal Peoples: Toward a Systematic View



The Tribal World as Mosaic, as Ladder, and as System



Modes of Subsistence, Modes of Adaptation



How Cultures Change



The Tribal World: The Legacy of Human Diversity



Economic Systems



Kinship, Descent, and Social Structure



Marriage, Family, and Community



Power and Politics



Gendered Lives



Structures of Inequality



Law and Social Control



Religion: Ritual, Myth, and Cosmos



The Integration of Societies, the Structure of Cultures



Anthropology and the Present



Response to Cataclysm: The Tribal World and the Expansion of the West



Peasants



Colonialism and Postcolonialism



Cities



Social Science and the Postcolonial World



Toward Human Survival


Postscript


Glossary


Bibliography


Index