Full Description
This concise, contemporary, and inexpensive option for instructors of cultural anthropology breaks away from the traditional structure of introductory textbooks. Emphasizing the interaction between humans and their environment, the tension between human universals and cultural variation, and the impacts of colonialism on traditional cultures, Inside Cultures shows students how cultural anthropology can help us understand the complex, globalized world around us. This second edition:includes brand new material on a variety of subjects, including genomic studies, race and racism, cross-cultural issues of gender identity, terrorism and ethnography, and business anthropology;presents updated and enhanced discussions of medical anthropology, European colonialism and disease, the Atlantic slave trade, and much more;offers personal stories of the author's fieldwork in Amazonia, sidebars illustrating fascinating cases of cultures in action, and other pedagogical elements such as timelines;is written is clear, supple prose that delights readers while informing them
Contents
1. The Study of Us2. Sociocultural Universals3. Cultural Variation4. Where Anthropology Comes From5. Contemporary Theory and Method6. Social Organization7. Politics and Power8. Ecology, Landscape and Culture9. Colonialism and the World System10. Collapse and Change11. Applications of Cultural Anthropology12. Globalization and Indigeneity13. Concluding Remarks
