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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of boxes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Understanding Anthropology | |
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| The Science(s) of Anthropology | |
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| Traditional Anthropology and Beyond | |
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| The "Anthropological Perspective" | |
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| The Relevance of Anthropology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Understanding and Studying Culture | |
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| Defining Culture | |
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| The Biocultural Basis of Human Behavior | |
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| Studying Culture: Method in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Origins of Cultural Anthropology | |
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| What Makes Cultural Anthropology Possible - and Necessary | |
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| Encountering the Other | |
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| Rethinking Society: Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Social Theory | |
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| Toward an Ethnological Science in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Twentieth Century and the Founding of Modern Anthropology | |
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| The Anthropological Crisis of the Mid-Twentieth Century and Beyond | |
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| Summary | |
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| Language and Social Relations | |
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| Human Language as a Communication System | |
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| The Structure of Language | |
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| Making Society Through Language: Language and the Construction of Social Reality | |
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| Language Acquisition and the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Learning to be an Individual: Personality and Gender | |
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| Cultures and Persons, or Cultural Persons | |
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| Gender and Person, or Gendered Persons | |
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| Summary | |
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| Individuals and Identities: Race and Ethnicity | |
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| The Anthropology of Race | |
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| The Modern Anthropological Critique of Race | |
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| The Anthropology of Ethnicity | |
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| Racial and Ethnic Groups and Relations in Cross-Cultural Perspective | |
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| Summary | |
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| Seeing Culture as a Whole #1: The Relativism of Motherhood, Personhood, Race, and Health in a Brazilian Community | |
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| Economics: Humans, Nature, and Social Organization | |
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| Economics as the Base or Core of Culture | |
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| The Anthropology of Economics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Kinship and Non-Kin Organization: Creating Social Groups | |
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| Corporate Groups: The Fundamental Structure of Human Societies | |
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| Kinship-Based Corporate Groups | |
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| Non-Kinship-Based Corporate Groups | |
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| Summary | |
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| Politics: Social Order and Social Control | |
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| Social Control: The Functions of Politics | |
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| Power | |
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| The Anthropology of Political Systems | |
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| Maintaining Internal Order and "Social Harmony" | |
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| An Anthropology of War | |
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| Summary | |
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| Religion: Interacting with the Non-Human World | |
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| The Problem of Studying Religion Anthropologically | |
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| The Elements of Religion: Superhuman Entities and Human Specialists | |
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| The Elements of Religion: Symbol, Ritual, and Language | |
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| Summary | |
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| Seeing Culture as a Whole #2: The Integration of Culture in Warlpiri Society | |
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| Cultural Dynamics: Continuity and Change | |
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| The Tradition of Tradition | |
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| Cultural Dynamics: The Processes of Cultural Change | |
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| Summary | |
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| Colonialism and the Origin of Globalization | |
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| The Culture of Colonialism | |
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| The Legacy of Colonialism | |
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| The Struggle for Political Identity: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Conflict | |
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| Politics, Identity, and Post-Colonialism | |
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| Fluid, Fragmented, and Fractious Cultures in the Modern World | |
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| From Culture to Competition to Conflict | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Struggle for Economic Independence: Development, Modernization, and Globalization | |
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| Why Economic Dependence? | |
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| The Path to Underdevelopment | |
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| Development: Solution and Problem | |
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| Models of Development | |
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| The Benefits - and Costs - of Development | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Struggle for Cultural Survival, Revival, and Revitalization | |
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| Voices from Another World | |
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| From Culture to Cultural Movement | |
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| The Future of Culture, and the Culture of the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Seeing Culture as a whole #3: Exile, Refuge, and Culture | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |