Full Description
Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives is an exceptionally clear and readable introduction that helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world and everyday life. It provides thorough treatment of key subjects such as colonialism and post-colonialism, ethnicity, the environment, cultural change, economic development, and globalization.
This fourth edition has a fresh thematic focus on the future, with material relating to planning, decision-making, design and invention, hope, and waiting. More space is devoted to contemporary topics, and there is new coverage of subjects ranging from white nationalism, right-wing populism, and natural disasters to surgical training, hacker conferences, and the gig economy. Each chapter contains a rich variety of case studies that have been updated throughout.
The book includes a number of features to support student learning, including:
A wealth of color images
Definitions of key terms and further reading suggestions in the margins
Questions for discussion/review and boxed summaries at the end of every chapter
An extensive glossary, bibliography, and index.
Additional resources are provided via a comprehensive companion website.
Contents
1. UNDERSTANDING ANTHROPOLOGY; 2. UNDERSTANDING AND STUDYING CULTURE; 3. THE ORIGINS OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; 4. LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL RELATIONS; 5. CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF PERSONS: PERSONALITY AND GENDER; 6. INDIVIDUALS AND IDENTITIES: RACE AND ETHNICITY; 7. HEALTH, ILLNESS, BODY, AND CULTURE; 8. ECONOMICS: HUMANS, NATURE, AND SOCIETY; 9. KINSHIP AND NON-KIN GROUPS: BEING, BECOMING, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; 10. POLITICS: SOCIAL ORDER AND SOCIAL CONTROL; 11. RELIGION: RELATING TO THE NON-HUMAN WORLD; 12. CULTURAL DYNAMICS: TRADITION AND CHANGE; 13. COLONIALISM AND THE ORIGIN OF GLOBALIZATION; 14. THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL IDENTITY IN A MOBILE AND UNCERTAIN WORLD; 15. ECONOMICS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: DEVELOPMENT, MODERNIZATION, AND NEOLIBERALISM; 16. CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL IN THE 21st CENTURY
