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| Each chapter ends with Key Terms, a Chapter Summary, and Suggested Readings | |
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| Preface | |
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| What Is Anthropology? | |
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| What Is Anthropology? | |
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| The Concept of Culture | |
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| The Cross-Disciplinary Discipline | |
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| The Uses of Anthropology | |
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| Module 1. Anthropology, Science, and Storytelling | |
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| Some Key Scientific Concepts | |
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| Module Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Why Is Evolution Important to Anthropologists?Evolutionary Theory | |
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| Material Evidence for Evolution | |
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| Pre-Darwinian Views of the Natural World | |
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| The Theory of Natural Selection | |
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| Unlocking the Secrets of Heredity | |
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| Contemporary Genetics | |
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| Genotype, Phenotype, and the Norm of Reaction | |
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| What Does Evolution Mean? | |
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| What Can Evolutionary Theory Tell Us about Human Variation?Microevolution | |
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| Macroevolution | |
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| The Future of Human Evolution | |
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| Module 2. Dating Methods in Paleoanthropology and Archaeology | |
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| Relative Dating Methods | |
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| Numerical Dating Methods | |
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| Modeling Prehistoric Climates | |
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| Module Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| What Can the Study of Primates Tell Us about Human Beings? | |
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| The Primates | |
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| Approaches to Primate Taxonomy | |
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| The Living Primates | |
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| Flexibility as the Hallmark of Primate Adaptations | |
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| Past Evolutionary Trends in Primates | |
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| Primate Evolution: The First 60 Million Years | |
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| What Can the Fossil Record Tell Us about Human Origins? | |
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| Hominid Evolution | |
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| The First Hominids (6-3 mya) | |
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| The Later Australopithecines (3-1.5 mya) | |
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| Explaining the Human Transition | |
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| Early Homo Species (2.4-1.5 mya) | |
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| Homo erectus (1.8-1.7 mya to 0.5-0.4 mya) | |
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| The Evolutionary Fate of H. erectus | |
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| The Evolution of H. sapiens | |
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| An Archaic Human Population: Neandertals (130,000-35,000 Years Ago) | |
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| Middle Paleolithic / Middle Stone Age Culture | |
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| Anatomically Modern Humans (200,000 Years Ago to Present) | |
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| The Upper Paleolithic / Late Stone Age (40,000?-12,000 Years Ago) | |
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| The Fate of the Neandertals | |
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| Upper Paleolithic / Late Stone Age Cultures | |
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| Spread of Modern H. sapiens in Late Pleistocene Times | |
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| Two Million Years of Human Evolution | |
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| How Do We Know about the Human Past?Archaeology | |
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| Interpreting the Past | |
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| Whose Past Is It? | |
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| Plundering the Past | |
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| Contemporary Trends in Archaeology | |
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| Why Did Humans Settle Down, Build Cities, and Establish States? | |
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| Human Imagination and the Material World | |
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| Plant Cultivation as a Form of Niche Construction | |
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| Animal Domestication | |
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| The Motor of Domestication | |
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| Domestication, Cultivation, and Sedentism in Southwest Asia | |
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| The Consequences of Domestication and Sedentism | |
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| What Is Social Complexity? | |
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| Archaeological Evidence for Social Complexity | |
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| How Can Anthropologists | |
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| Explain the Rise of Complex Societies? | |
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| How Does the Concept of Culture Help Us Understand Living Human Societies? | |
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| Explaining Culture and the Human Condition | |
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| Cultural Differences | |
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| Culture, History, and Human Agency | |
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| Writing against Culture | |
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| The Promise of the Anthropological Perspective | |
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| Module 3. On Ethnographic Methods | |
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| A Meeting of Cultural Traditions | |
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| Single-Sited Fieldwork | |
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| Multisited Fieldwork | |
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| Collecting and Interpreting Data | |
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| Module Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| How Do Cultural Anthropologists Learn about Contemporary Ways of Life? | |
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| Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Short History | |
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| The Dialectic of Fieldwork: Interpretation and Translation | |
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| The Effects of Fieldwork | |
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| The Production of Anthropological Knowledge | |
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| Anthropological Knowledge as Open-Ended | |
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| Why Is Understanding Human Language Important? | |
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| Language and Culture | |
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| Design Features of Human Language | |
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| Language and Context | |
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| Pidgin Languages: Negotiated Meaning | |
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| Linguistic Inequality | |
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| Language Ideology | |
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| Language, Culture, and Thought | |
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| Language, Thought, and Symbolic Practice | |
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| Languages, Symbolic Practices, Worldviews | |
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| Symbolic Practices, Worldviews, Selves | |
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| How Do Symbolic Practices Shape Human Lives? | |
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| Play Art Myth Ritual Worldview and Symbolic Practice | |
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| Religion Worldviews in Operation: Case Studies | |
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| Maintaining and Changing a Worldview | |
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| Worldviews as Instruments of Power | |
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| How Do Anthropologists Study Economic and Political Relations in Contemporary Human Societies? | |
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| Anthropologists Study Social Organization | |
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| How Do Anthropologists Study Politics? | |
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| Hidden Transcripts and the Power of Reflection | |
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| How Do Politics and Economics Shape Each Other? | |
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| How Do Anthropologists Study Economics? | |
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| Distribution and E | |