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When we think about society and culture, often we think of our own culture - the culture in which we were raised or currently live - as the default. The eleventh edition of The Tapestry of Culture uses anthropological tools to translate the concepts, ideas, and behaviors of other cultures into language recognizable by today's students. The book's comparative approach balances the history of ethnography, fieldwork, and anthropological with today's globalized world, including the impact of climate change, social movements, social media and technology, global health issues, and shifting political landscapes.
New to the Eleventh Edition
New Chapter 12, "Global Health and Wellness," examines the historical, political, and cultural issues that shape disease and health including inequalities in access to physical and mental health services, the delivery of health care services, and health intervention strategiesNew Chapter 11, "Spaces and Places of Creative Expression," explores how social media and internet technologies play a major role in how contemporary audiences view and understand creativity including music, dance, theater, film, painting and other performance stylesExpanded discussion of the cultural construction of gender and sexuality, as well as LGBTQ issues in activism explores gender and sexuality through queer studies and in postcolonial settings (Chapter 7)New discussion of critical race theory highlights its contributions to analyzing multiple forms of racism and discrimination while providing an exploration of the challenges of multiculturalism in contexts of nationality, ethnicity, and political representation (Chapter 14)New discussions of environmental anthropology, political ecology, climate change inequality, social movements, globalization, and transnationalism highlight these contemporary issues as subjects of anthropological inquiry (Chapter 1)
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1 Anthropological Perspectives
Learning Objectives
Studying Culture: Assumptions and Debates
Human Evolution and Culture: The Emergence of Anatomically Modern Humans
Cultural Universals: What characteristics do all humans share?
Analyzing and Writing about Culture: A Brief History of Anthropological Approaches
Fieldwork and Ethnography in the 21st Century
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
2 Anthropological Methods
Learning Objectives
Fieldwork
Anthropology Moves to the Study of Complex Societies
Studying Rituals Across Time and Space: The Comparative Approach
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
3 Language and Culture
Learning Objectives
The Evolution of Spoken Language Capacity
The Structure of Language
Language Change and Historical Linguistics
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
4 Learning Who We Are: Culture and The Individual
Learning Objectives
Parenting and Alloparenting
What is Human Nature? Nature, Nurture and Beyond the Dichotomy
How Children Learn to Communicate
Culture and Personality
Emotional Expression and Cultural Norms
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
5 Symbols and Their Meanings
Learning Objectives
Categories of Symbols
The Symbolism of Food
Social Groups, Social Categories, and Their Symbols
Symbolic Meanings of Space
Body Symbolism
The Symbolism of Sports
Universal Symbols
Symbols, Politics, and Authority
Public Memorials and Monuments: Creating and Contesting Symbols of History
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
6 Ties That Connect: Marriage, Family, and Kinship
Learning Objectives
Marriage
Descent Systems
Relations Between Groups through Marriage
Kinship Terminology Systems
Varieties of American Families
Marriage, Migration, and State Policy
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
7 Gender, Sexualities, and Age
Learning Objectives
Theorizing Gender and Sexuality
Work and Gender
Categories Based on Age
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
8 Economic Organization: Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Learning Objectives
Production
The Introduction of Agriculture
Animal Domestication and Pastoralism
The Organization of Work
Distribution
The Market System
Consumption
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
9 Power, Politics, and Conflict
Learning Objectives
Concepts in Political Anthropology
Forms of Political Organization
War and Peace
Law in Postcolonial States
Empowerment
Politics in Contemporary States
Patron-Client Relationship
Political Economy
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
10 Belief Systems, Rituals, and the Spirit World
Learning Objectives
Religion Studied/ Religion Defined?
Ritual: Approaching the Supernatural
Rites of Intensification: Practice and Politics
Stories about the Supernatural World
Analyzing Myths: Historical and Contemporary Views
Religion, History, and Science
Conceptualizing the Supernatural
Religious Specialists
Religious Syncretism: Religions and Their Adaptations to Change
Cyberspace and Religion
Politics, Religion, and States
Why Religion?
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
11 Places and Spaces of Creative Expression
Learning Objectives
Art as Communication, Experience, and Resistance
Art and Artists
Performance and Creativity
Cinema and Global Flows
Collection and Displays: Conflicts and Reconciliation
The International Art World Today: Creating Value and Cost
The Internet and Social Media: Anthropological Perspectives
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
12 Global Health and Wellness
COVID-19, Public Health Policy, and Inequalities
Disease and Health
Confronting Inequality: UN Sustainable Development Goals
Food Security and Nutrition
Focus on Women's Health
Valuing Toilets: Sanitation/Gender/Health
Climate Change and Health
Psychological and Mental Well Being
Community Health Worker Intervention Initiatives and Program Evaluation
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
13 Living/Working in the Globalized World: Colonialism, Globalization, and Development
Colonialism, Globalization, and Anthropology
New Ireland: A History of Increasing Incorporation into the Global System
Development History and Strategies
Anthropology and Change
Ethnography and Development
People on the Move
Migration and Transnationalism
"Movers" and "Non-Movers": Ethnography Perspectives
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
14 States and Identities: Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism
Racism and Critical Race Theory
Nation Building
Cultural Identity: Reasserted and Transformed in Modern States
Ethnic Differences, Ethnic Violence, and the New Nation of Afghanistan
European Immigration and Multiculturalism in the United States
Summary
Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Suggested Websites
Epilogue
Glossary
References
Index
