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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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Summary | |
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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 | |