The Dimensions of Anthropology | |
What Is Anthropology? | |
Applying Anthropology | |
Cultural Diversity | |
Culture | |
The Evolutionary Origins of Human Culture | |
Ethnicity and Race | |
Language and Communication | |
Making a Living | |
Political Systems | |
Families, Kinship, and Descent | |
Marriage | |
Gender | |
Religion | |
The Arts | |
The Changing World | |
The Modern World System | |
Colonialism and Development | |
Cultural Exchange and Survival | |
A History of Theories in Anthropology | |
Ethics and Anthropology | |
American Popular Culture | |
Ethics and Methods in Cultural Anthropology | |
Detailed Table of Contents | |
About the Author | |
Preface Walkthrough | |
The Dimensions of Anthropology | |
What Is Anthropology? | |
Overview | |
Human Adaptability Adaptation, Variation, and Change | |
General Anthropology | |
Cultural Forces Shape | |
Human Biology | |
The Subdisciplines of Anthropology | |
Cultural Anthropology | |
Archaeological Anthropology | |
Biological, or Physical Anthropology | |
Interesting Issues: Even Anthropologists Get Culture Shock | |
Beyond the Classroom: The Utility of Hand and Foot Bones for Problems in Biological Anthropology | |
Linguistic Anthropology | |
Applied Anthropology | |
Anthropology and Other Academic Fields Cultural Anthropology and Sociology Anthropology and Psychology Science, Explanation, and Hypothesis Testing | |
Applying Anthropology | |
What Is Applied Anthropology? | |
Academic and Applied Anthropology | |
Theory and Practice | |
Anthropology and Education | |
Urban Anthropology | |
Urban versus Rural Medical Anthropology | |
Beyond the Classroom: New Life, Good Health Anthropology and Business | |
Careers and Anthropology | |
Interesting Issues: Hot Asset in Corporate: Anthropology Degrees | |
Cultural Diversity | |
Culture What Is Culture? | |
Culture Is Learned Culture Is Shared | |
Interesting Issues: Touching, Affection, Love, and Sex | |
Culture Is Symbolic Culture and Nature Culture | |
Is All-Encompassing Culture | |
Is Integrated Culture | |
Can Be Adaptive and Maladaptive Culture and the Individual: Agency and Practice | |
Levels of Culture Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, and Human Rights Universality, Generality, and Particularity Universality Generality Particularity: Patterns of Culture | |
Beyond the Classroom: Folklore Reveals Ethos of Heating Plant Workers | |
Mechanisms of Cultural Change Globalization | |
The Evolutionary Origins of Human Culture Evolution Theory and Fact Genetics Mendel’s Experiments Independent Assortment and Recombination Biochemical, or Molecular, Genetics Cell | |
Division Crossing Over Mutation Population Genetics and Mechanisms of Genetic Evolution Natural Selection Random Genetic Drift Gene Flow | |
The Modern Synthesis Punctuated Equilibrium | |
Ethnicity and Race Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity Status Shifting Race Social Race Hypodescent: Race in the United States | |
Beyond the Classroom: Perceptions of Race and Skin Color on an American College Campus Race in the Census Not Us: Race in Japan Phenotype and Fluidity: Race in Brazil Stratification and "Intelligence" Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Nationalities Nationalities and Imagined Communities Peaceful Coexistence Assimilation | |
The Plural Society Multiculturalism and Ethnic Identity Interesting Issues: Ethnic Nationalism Runs Wild Roots of Ethnic Conflict Prejudice and Discrimination Chips in the Mosaic Aftermaths of Oppression | |
Language and Communication What Is Language? Animal Communication Call Systems Sign Language The Origin of Language Nonverbal Communication The Structure of Language Speech Sounds Language, Thought, and Culture Interesting Issues: Do Midwesterner''s Have Accents? The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Focal Vocabulary Meaning Sociolinguistics Linguistic Diversity Gender Speech Contrasts Language and Status Position Stratification Black English Vernacular (BEV), a.k.a. "Ebonics" Beyond the Classroom: Cybercommunication in Collegespace Historical Linguistics Bringing It All Together: Canada: Unity and Diversity in Culture and Language | |
Making a Living Adaptive Strategies Foraging Correlates of Foraging | |
Beyond the Classroom: Integrating Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Analytic Subsistence Data: A Case Study from Patagonia, South America Cultivation Horticulture Agriculture | |
The Cultivation Continuum Intensification: People and the Environment Pastoralism Modes of Production | |
Production in Nonindustrial Societies Means of Production | |
Alienation in Industrial Economies Economizing and Maximization Alternative Ends | |
Interesting Issues: Scarcity and the Betsileo Distribution, Exchange | |
The Market Principle Redistribution Reciprocity Coexistence of Exchange Principles Potlatching | |
Political Systems What Is "The Political?" | |
Types and Trends Bands and Tribes Foraging Bands Tribal Cultivators | |
The Village Head | |
The "Big Man" Pantribal Sodalities and Age Grades Nomadic Politics | |
Beyond the Classroom: Perspectives on Group Membership Chiefdoms | |
Political and Economic Systems in Chiefdoms Social Status in Chiefdoms Status Systems in Chiefdoms and States | |
States Population Control Judiciary Enforcement Fiscal Systems Social Control: Politics, Shame, and Sorcery | |
Families, Kinship, and Descent Families Nuclear and Extended Families | |
Industrialism and Family Organization Changes in North American Kinship | |
The Family among Foragers Descent Descent Groups Lineages, Clans, and Residence | |
Rules Ambilineal Descent Family versus Descent Kinship Calculation Genealogical Kin Types and Kin Terms | |
Interesting Issues: Social Security, Kinship Style Kinship Terminology Lineal Terminology Bifurcate Merging Terminology Generational Terminology Bifurcate Collateral Terminology | |
Marriage What Is Marriage? | |
Incest and Exogamy Explaining the Taboo Instinctive Horror Biological Degeneration Attempt and Contempt Marry Out or Die Out Endogamy Caste Royal Incest Marital Rights and Same-Sex Marriage | |
Beyond the Classroom: Human Mate Preference in Matrimonial Advertisements from Gujarat, India Marriage as Group Alliance Bridewealth and Dowry Durable Alliances | |
Interesting Issues: Love and Marriage Divorce Plural Marriages Polygyny Polyandry | |
Gender Sex and Gender Recurrent | |
Gender Patterns | |
Gender among Foragers | |
Gender among Horticulturist Reduced Gender | |
Stratification--Matrilineal, Matrilocal Societies | |
Reduced Gender Stratification--Matrifocal Societies | |
Increased Gender Stratification--Patrilineal-Patrilocal Societies | |
Gender among Agriculturalists Patriarchy and Violence Gender and Industrialism | |
The Feminization of Poverty Sexual Orientation | |
Interesting Issues: Hidden Women, Public Men---Public Women, Hidden Men Bringing It All Together: The Basques | |
Religion What Is Religion? | |
Origins, Functions, | |
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