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| Boxes | |
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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Anthropology? | |
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| The Scope of Anthropology | |
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| The Holistic Approach | |
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| The Anthropological Curiosity | |
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| Fields of Anthropology | |
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| Specialization | |
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| The Relevance of Anthropology | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| The Concept of Culture | |
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| Defining Features of Culture | |
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| Attitudes That Hinder the Study of Cultures | |
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| Cultural Relativism | |
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| Describing a Culture | |
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| Some Assumptions about Culture | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Theoretical Approaches in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| History of Theoretical Orientations | |
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| The Hypothesis-Testing Orientation | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Explanation and Evidence | |
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| Explanations | |
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| Why Theories Cannot Be Proved | |
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| Generating Theories | |
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| Evidence: Testing Explanations | |
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| Types of Research in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Cultural Variation | |
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| Communication and Language | |
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| Communication | |
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| The Origins of Language | |
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| Descriptive Linguistics | |
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| Historical Linguistics | |
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| The Processes of Linguistic Divergence | |
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| Relationships between Language and Culture | |
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| The Ethnography of Speaking | |
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| Writing and Literacy | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Getting Food | |
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| Food Collection | |
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| Food Production | |
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| Environmental Restraints on Food-Getting | |
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| The Origin of Food Production | |
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| The Spread and Intensification of Food Production | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Economic Systems | |
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| The Allocation of Resources | |
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| The Conversion of Resources | |
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| The Distribution of Goods and Services | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Social Stratification: Class, Ethnicity, and Racism | |
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| Variation in Degree of Social Inequality | |
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| Egalitarian Societies | |
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| Rank Societies | |
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| Class Societies | |
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| Racism and Inequality | |
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| Ethnicity and Inequality | |
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| The Emergence of Stratification | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Sex, Gender, and Culture | |
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| Gender Concepts | |
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| Physique and Physiology | |
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| Gender Roles | |
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| Relative Contributions to Work | |
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| Political Leadership and Warfare | |
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| The Relative Status of Women | |
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| Personality Differences | |
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| Sexuality | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Marriage and the Family | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Why Is Marriage Universal? | |
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| How Does One Marry? | |
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| Restrictions on Marriage: The Universal Incest Taboo | |
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| Whom Should One Marry? | |
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| How Many Does One Marry | |
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| The Family | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Marital Residence and Kinship | |
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| Patterns of Marital Residence | |
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| The Structure of Kinship | |
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| Variation in Unilineal Descent Systems | |
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| Functions of Unilineal Descent Groups | |
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| Ambilineal Systems | |
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| Explaining Variation in Residence | |
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| The Emergence of Unilineal Systems | |
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| Explaining Ambilineal and Bilateral Systems | |
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| Kinship Terminology | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Associations and Interest Groups | |
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| Nonvoluntary Associations | |
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| Voluntary Associations | |
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| Explaining Variation in Associations | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Political Life: Social Order and Disorder | |
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| Variation in Types of Political Organization | |
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| The Spread of State Societies | |
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| Variation in Political Process | |
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| Resolution of Conflict | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Psychology and Culture | |
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| The Universality of Psychological Development | |
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| Cross-Cultural Variation in Psychological Characteristics | |
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| Psychological Explanations of Cultural Variation | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Religion and Magic | |
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| The Universality of Religion | |
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| Variation in Religious Beliefs | |
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| Variation in Religious Practices | |
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| Religion and Adaptation | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| The Arts | |
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| Body Decoration and Adornment | |
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| Explaining Variation in the Arts | |
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| Viewing the Art of Other Cultures | |
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| Artistic Change and Culture Contact | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Culture Change and Globalization | |
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| How and Why Cultures Change | |
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| Culture Change and Adaptation | |
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| Types of Culture Change in the Modern World | |
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| Ethnogenesis: The Emergence of New Cultures | |
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| Globalization: Problems and Opportunities | |
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| Cultural Diversity in the Future | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Using Anthropology | |
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| Applied and Practicing Anthropology | |
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| Motives for Applying and Practicing Anthropology | |
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| History and Types of Application | |
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| Ethics of Applied Anthropology | |
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| Evaluating the Effects of Planned Change | |
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| Difficulties in Instituting Planned Change | |
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| Cultural Resource Management | |
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| Forensic Anthropology | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Medical Anthropology | |
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| Cultural Understandings of Health and Illness | |
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| Treatment of Illness | |
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| Political and Economic Influences on Health | |
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| Health Conditions and Diseases | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Global Social Problems | |
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| Natural Disasters and Famine | |
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| Inadequate Housing and Homelessness | |
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| Family Violence and Abuse | |
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| Crime | |
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| War | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| Making the World Better | |
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| Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |