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| Preface | |
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| Features | |
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| What's New in the Third Edition? | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Anthropology | |
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| An Anthropological Perspective | |
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| The Subfields of Anthropology | |
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| Is Anthropology a Science? Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond | |
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| Reflexive Anthropology | |
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| Culture | |
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| Culture Against Racism: The Early Twentieth Century | |
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| The Evolution of Culture | |
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| Culture and Symbolism | |
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| Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism | |
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| The Boundaries of Culture? | |
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| The Concept of Culture in a Global World: Problems and Practices | |
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| Culture: Contemporary Discussion and Debate | |
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| Culture: A Contemporary Consensus | |
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| Language | |
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| Studying Language: A Historical Sketch | |
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| The Building Blocks of Language | |
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| Language and Culture | |
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| Language and Society | |
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| Discourse | |
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| Language Contact and Change | |
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| Culture and the Individual | |
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| From Individualism to Agency | |
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| Culture and Personality | |
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| Enculturation | |
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| The Self | |
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| Cognition and Cognitive Anthropology | |
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| Cognitive Styles | |
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| Emotion | |
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| Religion, Worldview, and Art | |
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| Religion | |
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| Myth | |
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| Ritual | |
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| Magic and Witchcraft | |
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| Religious Practitioners | |
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| Change in Religious Systems | |
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| Art | |
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| The Dimensions of Social Organization | |
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| What Is Social Organization? | |
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| Dimensions of Social Organization | |
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| Caste and Class | |
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| Race | |
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| Ethnicity | |
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| Gender | |
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| Sexual Preference | |
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| Political Anthropology | |
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| Power | |
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| Political Ecology and Political Economy | |
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| Disputes and Dispute Resolution | |
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| Forms of Political Organization | |
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| Social Stratification | |
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| Forms of Political Activity | |
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| Status and Role | |
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| Social Control and Law | |
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| Nationalism and Hegemony | |
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| Economic Anthropology | |
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| The "Arts of Subsistence" | |
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| Subsistence Strategies | |
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| Explaining the Material Life Processes of Society | |
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| Modes of Exchange | |
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| Production, Distribution, and Consumption | |
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| Mode of Production | |
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| Peasants | |
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| Consumption | |
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| Kinship and Descent | |
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| Kinship vs. Biology | |
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| Descent | |
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| Bilateral Descent | |
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| Unilineal Descent | |
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| Kinship Terminologies | |
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| Marriage and Family | |
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| What Is Marriage? | |
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| Whom to Marry and Where to Live | |
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| How Many Spouses? | |
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| Marriage as Alliance | |
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| Family | |
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| Globalization and the Culture of Capitalism | |
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| The Cultural Legacy of Colonialism | |
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| Analyzing Sociocultural Change in the Postcolonial World | |
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| Globalization | |
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| The Cultural Effects of Contact | |
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| Globalization, Citizenship, and Human Rights | |
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| Theory in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Anthropology as Science | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Approaches | |
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| Early-Twentieth-Century Approaches | |
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| Mid-Twentieth-Century Approaches | |
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| Contemporary Debates | |
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| Reading Ethnography | |
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| The Parts of an Ethnography | |
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| The Use of Indigenous and Local Terms | |
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| The Photographs | |
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| Why Are You Reading This Ethnography (and How Should You Read It)? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |