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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 | |