Anthropology : the exploration of human diversity / Conrad Phillip Kottak.
Publication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1994.Edition: 6th editionDescription: xxix, 575 p. : col. ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:- 0070359180 (acidfree paper)
- 9780070359185
- 301 22 KOT
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| 301 KIV Exploring the social : readings in contemporary sociology / | 301 KOR. 1 Social problems / | 301 KOT 1 Anthropology : the exploration of human diversity / | 301 KOT 2 Anthropology : the exploration of human diversity / | 301 LIG 1 Sociology / | 301 LIN Essentials of sociology / | 301 LIN 1 Sociology / |
Contents
Chapter 1. The Scope Anthropology
Adaptation, variation and Change
BOX: even Anthropologist get culture shocks
General Anthropology
The subdisciplines of Anthropology
Anthropology and the other human sciences etc
Chapter 2. Field Methods
Ethnography: Anthropology's distinctive strategy
Enthnographic Techniques
Box: The Evolution of Enthrography
Differences Between Survey Research and Ethnography
Anthropological Research in Complex Societies
Chapter 3. Culture
What is Culture?
Box: Touching, Affection, Love, and Sex
Universality, Particularity, and Generality
Chapter 4. Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations
Ethnic Groups, Nations and Nationalities
Ethnic Tolerance and Accommodation
Roots of Conflicts
Chapter 5. The Cultural Construction of Race
Social Race
Biological Race: A Discredited Concept
Stratification and Intelligence
Chapter 6. Evolution, Genetics, and Biological Adaptation
Creationism, Catastrophism, and Evolution
Genetics: The Basis of Biological Variation
Biochemical , or Molecular, Genetics
Population Genetics and Mechanism of Ginetic Evolution etc
Chapter 7. The Primates
Taxonomy and The Primate order
Homologies
Primate Tendencies
Prosimians etc
Chapter 8. Early Hominids
Dating the Past
The Emergence of the Hominoids
The Ramapiths
The Varied Australopithecines
In the News: A possible "missing Link" etc
Chapter 9. The Emergence Modern Humans
Paleolithic Tools
Adaptive Strategies of Homo Erectus
The Evolution and Expansion of Homo Erectus
Archaic Homo Sapiens
The Neandertals etc
Chapter 10. The Origin and Spread of Food production
The Origin of Food production in the Middle East
In the News: A man who lived 5,300 years ago
The Emergency of Food Production in Other Old World Areas
The First American Farmers
In the News: New Evidence of Early Food Production in Africa etc
Chapter 11. Cultural Change and Adaption
Evolution
Strategies of Adaption
Box; The great Forager Debate
Foraging
Cultivation
Pastoralism
In the News: Dinkaland, Where Cattle are Treated Like Equals
Chapter 12. Bands and Tribes
Politics
Types and Trends
Foraging Bands
Tribal Cultivators etc.
Chapter 13. Chiefdoms and Nonindustrial States
Poilitical and Economic Systems in Chiefdoms
Social Status in Chiefdoms
Status Systems in Chiefdoms and States
Status and Role
States etc.
Chapter 14 The World System, Industrialism, and Stratification
The Emergence of the World System
Industrialization
Box: Spirit possession in Malaysian Factories
Stratification etc
Chapter 15. Economic Systems
Economizing and Maximization
Production
Distribution, Exchange
Money and Spheres of Exchange etc
Chapter 16. Kinship and Descent
Kinship Groups and Kinship Calculations
Kinship Groups
The Unclear Family
Box: is there anything wrong with the black family
Tribal Social Organization etc
Chapter 17. Marriage
The Incest Taboo and Exogamy
Explanations for the Incest Taboo
Endogamy
Exogamy
Marriage in Tribal Societies etc
Chapter 18. Gender
Gender Issues among Foragers
In the news: Masai Gender Roles
Gender Issues among horticulturalists
Gender issue Among Agriculturalists etc.
Chapter 19. Religion
Origins, Functions and Expressions of Religion
Analysis Myth
Box: Halloween: An American Ritual of Rebellion
In the news: A Japanese Ritual rebellion
Religion and Culture Type etc.
Chapter 20. Personality and Worldview
The Individual and Culture
Personality
Early Culture and Personality Research
Box: Varieties of Human Sexuality
Cross-Cultural Studies etc.
Chapter 21. Language
The Structure of Language
Transformation of generative Grammar
Language, thought, and Culture
Sociolinguistics etc
Chapter 22. Applied Anthropology
Academic and Applied Anthropology
Anthropology and Education
Urban Anthropology
Medical Anthropology etc
Chapter 23. Colonialism and Development
Anthropology and Colonialism
Development
Strategies for Innovation
In the news: A case of Successful and Culturally Appropriate Development
Chapter 24. Cultural Exchange and Survival
People in the Motion
Domination
Box: Voices of the Rainforest
Resistance and Survival
in the News: Things Have Happened to me in a movie. etc
Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-553) and index.
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