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| Preface | |
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| The Anthropological Perspective | |
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| What Is Anthropology? | |
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| What Is the Concept of Culture? | |
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| What Makes Anthropology a Cross-Disciplinary Discipline? | |
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| Biological Anthropology | |
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| Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Linguistic Anthropology | |
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| Archaeology | |
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| Applied Anthropology | |
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| Medical Anthropology | |
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| The Uses of Anthropology | |
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| The Tools Of Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Culture and the Human Condition | |
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| How Do Anthropologists Define Culture? | |
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| What Is the Place of Culture in Explanations of the Human Condition? | |
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| Dualism, Idealism, and Materialism | |
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| Culture, History, and Human Agency | |
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| What Does It Mean to Be Human? | |
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| Holistic Explanations | |
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| Why Do Cultural Differences Matter? | |
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| Ethnocentrism | |
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| The Cross-Cultural Relationship | |
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| Cultural Relativism | |
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| How Can Cultural Relativity Improve Our Understanding of Controversial Cultural Practices? | |
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| Genital Cutting, Gender, and Human Rights | |
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| Genital Cutting as a Valued Ritual | |
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| Culture and Moral Reasoning | |
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| Did Their Culture Make Them Do It? | |
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| Does Culture Explain Everything? | |
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| Writing against Culture | |
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| Culture Change and Cultural Authenticity | |
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| Culture and the Politics of Difference | |
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| The Promise of the Anthropological Perspective | |
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| FieldworkWhy Do Fieldwork? | |
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| The Fieldwork Experience | |
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| A Meeting of Cultural Traditions | |
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| Ethnographic Fieldwork | |
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| How Has Anthropologists Understanding Changed? | |
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| The Positivist Approach | |
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| Applying Positivist Methods to Anthropology | |
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| Questioning the Positivist Approach | |
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| The Re flexive Approach | |
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| What Is the Dialectic of Fieldwork? | |
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| Interpretation and Translation | |
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| Beyond the Dialectic | |
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| The Dialectic of Fieldwork | |
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| Some Examples | |
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| Ruptures in Communication | |
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| How Have Global Changes Affected Fieldwork? | |
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| The Effects of Fieldwork | |
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| How Does Fieldwork Affect the Researcher? | |
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| The Humanizing Effects of Fieldwork | |
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| Where Does Anthropological Knowledge Come From? | |
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| Anthropological Knowledge as Open-Ended | |
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| Anthropology in History and the Explanation of Cultural Diversity | |
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| Where Do Cultural Traditions Begin? | |
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| Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Origins of Ethnography | |
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| Capitalism and Colonialism | |
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| The Fur Trade in North America | |
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| The Slave and Commodities Trades | |
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| Colonialism and Modernity | |
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| The Colonial Political Economy | |
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| Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter | |
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| What Explains Human Cultural Variation? | |
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| Evolutionary Typologies | |
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| The Nineteenth Century | |
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| Social Structural Typologies | |
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| The British Emphasis | |
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| Doing without Typologies | |
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| Culture Area Studies in America | |
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| Postcolonial Realities | |
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| Studying Forms of Human Society Today | |
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| The Comparative Study of Processes | |
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| The Resources Of Culture | |
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| Language | |
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| Why Do Anthropologists Study Language? | |
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| Language and Culture | |
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| Talking about Experience | |
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| What Makes Human Language Distinctive? | |
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| What Does It Mean to Learn a Language? | |
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| Language and Context | |
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| Does Language Affect the Way We See the World? | |
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| What Are the Components of Language? | |
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| Phonology | |
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| Sounds | |
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| Morphology | |
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| Word Structure | |
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| Syntax | |
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| Sentence Structure | |
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| Semantics | |
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| Meaning | |
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| Pragmatics | |
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| Language in Contexts of Use | |
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| Ethnopragmatics | |
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| What Happens | |
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| When Languages Come into Contact? | |
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| Pidgin and Creole | |
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| Negotiating Meaning | |
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| Linguistic Inequality | |
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| Language Habits of African Americans | |
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| Language Ideology | |
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| Language Habits of Women and Men | |
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| What Is Lost If a Language Dies? | |
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| Language and Truth | |
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| Culture and Individuals | |
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| Perception | |
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| Schemas and Prototypes:Perception and Convention | |
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| Illusion | |
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| Visuality | |
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| Learning to Look | |
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| Cognition | |
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| Cognitive Capacities and Intelligence | |
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| Cognitive Style | |
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| Reason and the Reasoning Process | |
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| Culture and Logic | |
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| EmotionThe Cultural Construction of Emotion | |
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| Emotion in an Eastern African Culture | |
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| Emotion in Oceania | |
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| MotivationSocialization and Enculturation | |
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| The Sociohistorical View | |
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| Is Cognitive Development the Same for Everyone? | |
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| Self/Personality/Subjectivity | |
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| How Do Violence and Trauma Alter Our View of Ourselves? | |
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| Structural Violence | |
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| Trauma | |
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| Chosen Trauma | |
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| How Does Individual Psychology Depend on Context? | |
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| Play, Art, Myth, and RitualWhy Play? | |
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| Thinking about Play | |
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| Some Effects of Play | |
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| Alternative Views of Reality | |
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| Do People Play by the Rule | |