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| Brief Table of Contents for Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World, 2/e | |
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| Introduction To Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Anthropology and the Study of Culture | |
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| Researching Culture | |
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| Cultural Foundations | |
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| Economic Systems | |
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| Reproduction and Human Development | |
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| Health, Illness and Healing | |
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| Social Organization | |
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| Kinship and Domestic Life | |
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| Social Groups and Social Stratification | |
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| Political and Legal Systems | |
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| Symbolic Systems | |
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| Communication | |
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| Religion | |
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| Expressive Culture | |
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| Contemporary Cultural Change | |
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| People on the Move | |
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| People Defining Development | |
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| Table of Contents | |
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| Introduction To Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Anthropology Works | |
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| Anthropology and the Study of Culture | |
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| Introducing Anthropology | |
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| Biological or Physical Anthropology | |
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| Archaeology | |
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| Linguistic Anthropology | |
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| Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Applied Anthropology: Separate Field or Cross-Cutting Focus? | |
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| Lessons Applied: Orangutan Research Leads to Orangutan Advocacy | |
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| Introducing Cultural Anthropology | |
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| A Brief History of Cultural Anthropology | |
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| The Concept of Culture | |
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| Definitions of Culture | |
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| Characteristics of Culture | |
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| Culture Is Not the Same as Nature | |
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| Eating | |
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| Everyday Anthropology: Latina Power in the Kitchen | |
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| Drinking | |
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| Sleeping | |
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| Eliminating | |
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| Culture Is Learned | |
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| Cultures Are Integrated | |
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| Cultures Interact and Change | |
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| Multiple Cultural Worlds | |
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| Class | |
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| "Race," Ethnicity, and Indigenous Peoples | |
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| Culturama: San Peoples of Southern Africa | |
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| Gender | |
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| Age | |
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| Institutions | |
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| Distinctive Features of Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Cultural Relativism | |
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| Valuing and Sustaining Diversity | |
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| Three Theoretical Debates in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Biological Determinism versus Cultural Constructionism | |
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| Interpretive Anthropology versus Cultural Materialism | |
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| Individual Agency versus Structurism | |
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| Cultural Anthropology and Careers | |
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| Majoring in Anthropology | |
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| Graduate Study in Anthropology | |
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| Living an Anthropological Life | |
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| Researching Culture | |
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| Changing Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| From the Armchair to the Field | |
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| Participant Observation | |
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| Doing Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Beginning the Fieldwork Process | |
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| Project Selection | |
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| Critical Thinking: Shells and Skirts in the Trobriand Islands | |
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| Culturama: the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea | |
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| Preparing for the Field | |
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| Working in the Field | |
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| Site Selection | |
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| Gaining Rapport | |
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| Gift Giving and Exchange | |
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| Microcultures and Fieldwork | |
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| Class | |
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| "Race"/Ethnicity | |
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| Gender | |
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| Age | |
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| Culture Shock | |
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| Fieldwork Techniques | |
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| Deductive and Inductive Research | |
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| Participant Observation | |
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| Talking with People | |
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| Combining Observation and Talking | |
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| Specialized Methods | |
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| Life History | |
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| Time Allocation Study | |
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| Texts | |
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| Archival and Historical Sources | |
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| Multiple Research Methods and Team Projects | |
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| Eye on the Environment: Researching Inuit Place Names and Landscape Knowledge | |
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| Recording Culture | |
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| Field Notes | |
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| Tape Recording, Photography, and Videos | |
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| Data Analysis | |
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| Analyzing Qualitative Data | |
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| Analyzing Quantitative Data | |
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| Representing Culture | |
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| Urgent Issues in Cultural Anthropology Research | |
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| Ethics and Collaborative Research | |
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| Collaborative Research | |
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| Safety in the Field | |
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| Cultural Foundations | |
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| Economic Systems | |
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| Modes of Livelihood | |
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| Foraging | |
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| Everyday Anthropology: the Importance of Dogs | |
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| Division of Labor | |
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| Property Relations | |
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| Foraging As a Sustainable System | |
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| Horticulture | |
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| Division of Labor | |
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| Property Relations | |
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| Horticulture as a Sustainable System | |
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| Pastoralism | |
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| Division of Labor | |
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| Property Relations | |
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| Pastoralism as a Sustainable System | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Division of Labor | |
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| Property Relations | |
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| Industrial Agriculture | |
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| The Sustainability of Agriculture | |
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| Critical Thinking: Was the Invention of Agriculture a Terrible Mistake? | |
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| Industrialism and the Information Age | |
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| Modes of Consumption and Exchange | |
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| Modes of Consumption and Exchange | |
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| Consumption Microcultures | |
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| Class and the Game of Distinction in Israeli Birthday Parties | |
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| Women's Deadly Diet in Papua New Guinea | |
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| "Race" and Children's Shopping in New Haven | |
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| Modes of Exchange | |
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| Balanced Exchange | |
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| Unbalanced Exchange | |
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| Other Forms of Unbalanced Exchange | |
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| Gambling | |
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| Lessons Applied: Assessing the Social Impact of Indian Casinos in California | |
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| Theft | |
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| Exploitation | |
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| Globalization and Changing Economies | |
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| Sugar, Salt, and Steel Tools in the Amazon | |
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| Global Networks and Ecstasy in the United States | |
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| Alternative Food Movements in Europe and North America | |
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| Continuities and Resistance: the Enduring Potlatch | |
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| Culturama: the Kwakwaka'wakw of Canada | |
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| Reproduction and Human Development | |
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| Modes of Reproduction | |
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| The Foraging Mode of Reproduction | |
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| The Agricultural Mode of Reproduction | |
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| Culturama: the Old Order Amish of the United States and Canada | |
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| The Industrial/Informatics Mode of Reproduction | |
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| Culture and Fertility | |
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| Sexual Intercourse | |
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| When to Begin Having Intercourse? | |
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| Intercourse Frequency and Fertility | |
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| Fertility Decision Making | |
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| At the Family Level | |
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| At the State Level | |
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| At the Global Level | |
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| Fertility Control | |
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| Indigenous Methods | |
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| Induced Abortion | |
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| The New Reproductive Technologies | |
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| Infanticide | |
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| Personality and the Life Cycle | |
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| Birth, Infancy, and Childhood | |
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| The Birth Context | |
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| Lessons Applied: Mediating Cultural Conflict about the Treatment of a Newborn Baby in a U.S. Hospital Nursery | |
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| Bonding | |
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| Gender in Infancy | |
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| Socialization during Childhood | |
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| Adolescence and Identity | |
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| Is Adolescence a Universal Life-Cycle Stage? | |
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| Coming of Age and Gender Identity | |
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| Critical Thinking: Cultural Relativism and Female Genital Cutting | |
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| Sexual Identity and Gender Pluralism | |
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| Adulthood | |
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| Becoming a Parent | |
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| Middle Age | |
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| The Senior Years | |
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| The Final Passage: Death and Dying | |
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| Health, Illness, and Healing | |
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| Ethnomedicine | |
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| Defining and Classifying Health Problems | |
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| Ethno-etiologies | |
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| Healing Ways | |
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| Community Healing | |
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| Healers | |
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| Healing Substances | |
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| Eye on the Environment: Local Botanical Knowledge and Child Health in the Bolivian Amazon | |
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| Three Theoretical Approaches | |
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| The Ecological/Epidemiological Approach | |
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| The Interpretivist Approach | |
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| Critical Medical Anthropology | |
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| Social Inequality and Poverty | |
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| Cultural Critique of Western Biomedical Training | |
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| Globalization and Change | |
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| New Infectious Diseases | |
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| Diseases of Development | |
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| Medical Pluralism | |
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| Selective Pluralism: the Case of the Sherpa | |
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| Culturama: the Sherpa of Nepal | |
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| Conflicting Explanatory Models | |
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| Applied Medical Anthropology | |
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| Reducing Lead Poisoning among Mexican American Children | |
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| Public Health Communication | |
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| Lessons Applied: Promoting Vaccination Programs in Developing Countries | |
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| Working Together: Western Biomedicine and Nonbiomedical Systems | |
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| Social Organization | |
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| Kinship and Domestic Life | |
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| How Cultures Create Kinship | |
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| Studying Kinship: From Formal Analysis to Kinship in Action | |
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| Descent | |
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| Unilineal Descent | |
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| Culturama: Minangkabau of Indonesia | |
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| Bilineal Descent | |
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| Sharing | |
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| Kinship through Food Sharing | |
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| Adoption and Fostering | |
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| Ritually Established Kinship | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Toward a Definition | |
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| Selecting a Spouse | |
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| Marriage Gifts | |
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| Forms of Marriage | |
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| Households and Domestic Life | |
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| The Household: Variations on a Theme | |
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| Intrahousehold Dynamics | |
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| Spouse/Partner Relationships | |
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| Sibling Relationships | |
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| Domestic Violence Between Partners | |
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| Lessons Applied: Ethnography for Preventing Wife Abuse In Rural Kentucky | |
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| Changing Kinship and Household Dynamics | |
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| Change in Descent | |
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| Change in Marriage | |
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| Changing Households | |
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| Social Groups and Social Stratification | |
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| Social Groups | |
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| Friendship | |
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| Social Characteristics of Friendship | |
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| Friendship among the Urban Poor | |
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| Clubs and Fraternities | |
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| Countercultural Groups | |
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| Youth Gangs | |
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| Body Modification Groups | |
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| Cooperatives | |
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| Self-Help Groups | |
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| Social Stratification | |
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| Achieved Status: Class | |
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| Ascribed Status: "Race," Ethnicity, Gender, and Caste | |
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| Eye on the Environment: Industrial Pollution and Activism in an African American Community in Georgia, the United States | |
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| Culturama: the Roma of Eastern Europe | |
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| Gender and Sexism | |
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| Caste and Casteism | |
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| Civil Society | |
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| Civil Society for the State: the Chinese Women's Movement | |
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| Activist Groups: Co-Madres | |
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| New Social Movements and Cyberpower | |
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| Political and Legal Systems | |
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| Politics, Political Organization, and Leadership | |
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| Bands | |
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| Tribes | |
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| Big-Man and Big-Woman Leadership | |
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| Chiefdoms | |
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| States | |
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| State Powers and Roles | |
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| Eye on the Environment: Water, Pollution, and International Politics | |
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| Symbols of State Power | |
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| Gender and Leadership in States | |
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| Social Order and Social Conflict | |
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| Norms and Laws | |
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| Systems of Social Control | |
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| Social Control in Small-Scale Societies | |
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| Social Control in States | |
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| Specialization | |
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| Trials and Courts | |
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| Prisons and the Death Penalty | |
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| Social Inequality and the Law | |
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| Social Conflict and Violence | |
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| Ethnic Conflict | |
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| Warfare | |
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| Critical Thinking: Yanomami: the "Fierce People"? | |
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| Change in Political and Legal Systems | |
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| Emerging Nations and Transnational Nations | |
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| Culturama: the Kurds of the Middle East | |
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| Democratization | |
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| The United Nations and International Peacekeeping | |
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| Symbolic Systems | |
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| Communication | |
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| The Varieties of Human Communication | |
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| Language and Verbal Communication | |
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| Two Features of Human Language | |
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| Formal Properties of Verbal Language | |
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| Nonverbal Language and Embodied Communication | |
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| Sign Language | |
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| Lessons Applies: Anthropology and Public Understanding of the Language and Culture of People Who Are Deaf | |
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| Silence | |
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| Body Language | |
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| Communicating with Media and Information Technology | |
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| The Politics of Journalism | |
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| Advertising for Latinos in the United States | |
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| Crossing the Digital Divide in Rural Hungary | |
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| Communication and Cultural Diversity and Inequality | |
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| Language and Culture: Two Theories | |
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| Critical Discourse Analysis: Class, Gender, Indigeneity, and "Race" | |
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| Gender in Euro-American Conversations | |
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| Gender and Politeness in Japanese, and Those Naughty Teenage Girls | |
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| Gay Language and Belonging in Indonesia | |
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| African American English: Prejudice and Pride | |
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| Language Change | |
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| The Origins and History of Language | |
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| Historical Linguistics | |
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| Writing Systems | |
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| Colonialism, Nationalism, and Globalization | |
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| European Colonialism and Contact Languages | |
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| Nationalism and Linguistic Assimilation | |
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| Culturama: the Saami of Sapmi, or Lapland | |
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| Global Languages | |
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| Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization | |
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| Critical Thinking: Should Dying Languages Be Revived? | |
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| Religion | |
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| Religion in Comparative Perspective | |
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| What is Religion? | |
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| Magic Versus Religion | |
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| Varieties of Religious Beliefs | |
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| How Beliefs Are Expressed | |
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| Beliefs About Supernatural Forces and Beings | |
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| Eye on the Environment: Eagle Protection, National Parks, and the Preservation of Hopi Indian Culture | |
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| Beliefs about Sacred Space | |
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| Ritual Practices | |
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| Life-Cycle Rituals | |
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| Pilgrimage | |
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| Rituals of Inversion | |
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| Sacrifice | |
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| Religious Specialists | |
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| Shamans and Priests | |
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| Other Specialists | |
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| World Religions and Local Variations | |
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| Hinduism | |
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| A Nayar Fertility Ritual | |
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| Hindu Women and Karma in Northern England | |
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| Buddhism | |
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| Local Spirits and Buddhism in Southeast Asia | |
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| Everyday Anthropology: Tattoos and Sacred Power | |
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| Judaism | |
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| Who's Who at the Kotel | |
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| Christianity | |
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| Protestantism among White Appalachians | |
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| The Last Supper in Fiji | |
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| Islam | |
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| Culturama: Hui Muslims of Xi'an, China | |
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| African Religions | |
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| Features of African Religions | |
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| Ras Tafari | |
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| Directions of Religious Change | |
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| Revitalization Movements | |
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| Contested Sacred Sites | |
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| Religious Freedom as a Human Right | |
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| Expressive Culture | |
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| Art and Culture | |
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| What Is Art? | |
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| Critical Thinking: Probing the Categories of Art | |
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| Studying Art in Society | |
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| Focus on the Artist | |
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| Microcultures, Art, and Power | |
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| Performance Arts | |
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| Music and Gender among the Temiar of Malaysia | |
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| Country Music and Globalization in Brazil | |
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| Theater and Myth in South India | |
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| Architecture and Decorative Arts | |
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| Architecture and Interior Design | |
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| Gardens and Flowers | |
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| Play, Leisure, and Culture | |
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| Games and Sports as a Cultural Microcosm | |
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| Sports and Spirituality: Male Wrestling in India | |
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| Play, Pleasure, and Pain | |
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| Leisure Travel | |
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| Culturama: the Gullah of South Carolina | |
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| Change in Expressive Culture | |
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| Colonialism and Syncretism | |
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| Tourism's Complex Effects | |
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| Lessons Applied: A Strategy on Cultural Heritage for the World Bank | |
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| Contemporary Cultural Change | |
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| People on the Move | |
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| Categories of Migration | |
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| Categories Based on Spatial Boundaries | |
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| Internal Migration | |
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| International Migration | |
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| Critical Thinking: Haitian Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic: A Case of Structure or Human Agency? | |
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| Transnational Migration | |
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| Categories Based on Reason for Moving | |
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| Labor Migrants | |
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| Displaced Persons | |
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| Culturama: the Maya of Guatemala | |
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| Institutional Migrants | |
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| The New Immigrants to the United States and Canada | |
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| The New Immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean | |
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| Chain Migration of Dominicans | |
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| Salvadorans: Escaping War to Struggle with Poverty | |
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| The New Immigrants from Asia | |
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| Changing Patterns of Consumption among Hong Kong Chinese | |
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| Three Patterns of Adaptation among the Vietnamese | |
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| Hindus of New York City Maintain Their Culture | |
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| The New Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union | |
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| Soviet Jews Flee Persecution | |
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| Migration Politics, Policies, and Programs in a Globalizing World | |
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| Protecting Migrants' Health | |
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| Lessons Applied: Studying African Pastoralists' Movements for Risk Assessment and Service Delivery | |
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| Inclusion and Exclusion | |
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| Migration and Human Rights | |
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| People Defining Development | |
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| Defining Development and Approaches to It | |
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| Two Processes of Cultural Change | |
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| Invention | |
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| Diffusion | |
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| Lessons Applied: the Saami, Snowmobiles, and the Need for Social Impact Analysis | |
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| Theories and Models of Development | |
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| Modernization | |
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| Growth-Oriented Development | |
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| Distributional Development | |
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| Human Development | |
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| Sustainable Development | |
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| Institutional Approaches to Development | |
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| Large-Scale Development Institutions | |
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| Grassroots Approaches | |
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| Culturama: the Peyizan yo of Haiti | |
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| The Development Project | |
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| Anthropologists and the Development Project Cycle | |
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| Cultural Fit | |
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| The Anthropological Critique of Development Projects | |
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| Development, Indigenous People, and Women | |
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| Indigenous People and Development | |
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| Indigenous People as Victims of Colonialism and Development Like | |
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| Indigenous People and Territorial Entitlements | |
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| Latin America | |
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| Canada | |
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| Asia | |
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| Africa | |
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| Australia and New Zealand | |
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| Organizing for Change | |
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| Women and Development | |
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| The Male Bias in Development | |
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| Women's Organizations for Change | |
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| Urgent Issues in Development | |
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| Life Projects and Human Rights | |
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| Eye on the Environment: Oil, Environmental Degradation, and Human Rights in the Nigerian Delta | |
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| Cultural Heritage and Development: Linking the Past and Present to the Future | |
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| Cultural Anthropology and the Future | |