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Introduction | |
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The Five Fields of Anthropology | |
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What Is Distinctive about Cultural Anthropology? | |
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Why Study Anthropology? | |
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The Nature of Culture | |
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Definitions of Culture | |
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Society, Subculture, and Sociocultural System | |
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Science and the Relativity of Truth | |
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Fieldwork and the Mental and Behavioral Aspects of Culture | |
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The Universal Pattern | |
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The Diversity of Anthropological Theories | |
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Cultural Materialism | |
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The Evolution of the Capacity for Culture | |
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Genes and Natural Selection | |
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Nonhuman Culture | |
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The Evolution of the Hominids | |
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Apes and Language | |
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Aggressive versus Cooperative Behavior among Apes | |
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Language and Culture | |
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Universal Features of Language | |
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Structural Linguistics: Elements of Language Analysis | |
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Biological and Cultural Aspects of Language | |
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Language Issues and Theories | |
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Sociolinguistics | |
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Production | |
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Evolution of Energy Production | |
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The Influence of the Environment and Ecology | |
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Carrying Capacity and the Law of Diminishing Returns | |
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Hunting and Gathering | |
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Agriculture | |
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Pastoralism | |
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Energy and the Evolution of Culture | |
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Industrial Food Energy Systems | |
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Reproduction | |
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The Relation between Production and Reproduction | |
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Population Pressure versus Population Growth | |
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Preindustrial Reproductive Practices | |
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The Costs and Benefits of Rearing Children | |
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The Contraception, Abortion, and Infanticide Debate | |
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Industrial Modes of Reproduction | |
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Women's Status, Education, and Fertility | |
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Economic Organization | |
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Definition of Economy | |
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Exchange | |
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Redistributive Exchange | |
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Reciprocity versus Redistribution | |
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The Infrastructural Basis of Redistribution and Reciprocity | |
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Stratified Redistribution | |
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Price Market Exchange: Buying and Selling | |
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Patterns of Work | |
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Domestic Life | |
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The Household and the Domestic Sphere of Culture | |
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Family Groups and the Mode of Production and Reproduction | |
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What Is Marriage? | |
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Economic Aspects of Marriage | |
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Preferential Marriages | |
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Domestic Groups and the Avoidance of Incest | |
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Descent, Locality, and Kinship | |
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Kinship | |
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Descent | |
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Descent Rules: Cognatic and Unilineal Descent | |
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Postmarital Locality Patterns | |
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Kinship Terminologies | |
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Kin Terms Are Negotiated, Not Written in Stone | |
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Law and Or | |