Full Description
Cultural Anthropologyareas of cultural anthropology as well as providing original and nuanced coverage of current and cutting-edge topics. An exceptionally clear and readable introduction, it helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world and everyday life. Thorough treatment is given throughout the text to issues such as globalization, colonialism, ethnicity, nationalism, neoliberalism, and the state. Changes for the third edition include a brand new chapter on medical anthropology and an updated range of cases studies with a fresh thematic focus on China. The book contains a number of features to support student learning, including:A wealth of color images Definitions of key terms and further reading suggestions in the marginsSummaries at the end of every chapterAn extensive glossary, bibliography and index.
Contents
CHAPTER 1. UNDERSTANDING ANTHROPOLOGY CHAPTER 2. UNDERSTANDING AND PERSONALITY AND GENDER CHAPTER 6. INDIVIDUALS AND IDENTITIES: RACE AND ETHNICITY Seeing Culture as a Whole #1: Western Expatriates in the New Chinese Economy CHAPTER 7. ECONOMICS: HUMANS, NATURE, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 8. KINSHIP AND NON-KIN ORGANIZATION: CREATING SOCIAL GROUPS CHAPTER 9. POLITICS: SOCIAL ORDER AND SOCIAL CONTROL CHAPTER 10. RELIGION: INTERACTING WITH THE NON-HUMAN WORLD Seeing Culture as a Whole #2: A Holistic Approach to Boko Haram and Islamic Violence CHAPTER 11. CULTURAL DYNAMICS: MODERNIZATION, AND GLOBALIZATION CHAPTER 15. CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD CHAPTER 16. HEALTH, ILLNESS, BODY, AND CULTURE Seeing Culture as a Whole #3: Possessed by Dispossession - The Spirits of Postsocialist Society in Mongolia
