Cultural anthropology : a perspective on the human condition / Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda.

Contents

1. THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
What Is Anthropology?
The Concept of Culture
The Cross-Disciplinary Discipline
Biological Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
Archaeology
Applied Anthropology
The Uses of Anthropology

PART I. THE TOOLS OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

2. CULTURE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
Explaining Culture and the Human Condition
Cultural Differences
Culture, History, and Human Agency
Writing Against Culture
The Promise of the Anthropological Perspective

3. FIELDWORK
A Meeting of Cultural Traditions
The Fieldwork Experience
Modes of Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Short History
The Dialectic of Fieldwork: Interpretation and Translation
Multi-Sited Fieldwork
The Effects of Fieldwork
The Production of Anthropological Knowledge
Anthropological Knowledge as Open-Ended

4. ANTHROPOLOGY IN HISTORY AND THE EXPLANATION OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Human Imagination and the Material World
Capitalism, Colonialism, and "Modernity"
Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
Toward Classifying Forms of Human Society

PART II. THE RESOURCES OF CULTURE

5. LANGUAGE
Language and Culture
Design Features of Human Language
Language and Context
Linguistic Relativity
Components of Language
Pidgin Languages: Negotiated Meaning
Linguistic Inequality
Language and Truth

6. CULTURE AND INDIVIDUALS
Perception
Cognition
Emotion
Emotion in Oceania
Motivation
Personality/Self/Subjectivity
Trauma
Individual Psychology and Context

7. PLAY, ART, MYTH, AND RITUAL
Play
Art
Myth
Ritual
Combining Play, Art, Myth, and Ritual
8. WORLDVIEW

From Everyday Experience to Worldview
The Role of Metaphor, Metonymy, and Symbol
Key Metaphors for Constructing Worldviews
Religion
Worldviews in Operation: Three Case Studies
Maintaining and Changing a Worldview
Worldviews as Instruments of Power
Religion and Secularism

PART III. THE ORGANIZATION OF MATERIAL LIFE

9. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND POWER
Varieties of Social Organization
The Search for the Laws of Social Organization
The Power to Act
Power as an Independent Entity
The Power of the Imagination
History as a Prototype of and for Political Action
Negotiating the Meaning of History
10. MAKING A LIVING
Culture and Livelihood
Subsistence Strategies
Phases of Economic Activity
Distribution and Exchange
Production
Consumption
A Dialectic Between the Meaningful and the Material

PART IV. SYSTEMS OF RELATIONSHIPS

11. KINSHIP AND GENDER

Systems of Relatedness: Ways of Organizing Human Interdependence
Patterns of Descent in Kinship
Lineages
Kinship Terminologies
Kinship and Alliance Through Marriage
Adoption
Kinship Extended: Cultures of Relatedness
Kinship and Practice
Kinship: A Framework for Interpreting Life

12. MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Toward a Definition of Marriage?
Marriage as a Social Process
Marriage and Economic Exchange
Brothers and Sisters in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Family Structure
Transformations in Families over Time
International Migration and the Family
The Flexibility of Marriage
Sexual Practices
Sexuality and Power

13. BEYOND KINSHIP
Kin-Based Versus Nonkin-Based Societies
Reaching Beyond Kinship
Sodalities
The Dimensions of Group Life

PART V. FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL

14. DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: CLASS, CASTE, RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM
Class
Caste
Race
Ethnicity
Nation and Nationalism

15. A GLOBAL WORLD
Views of the Political Economy
Cultural Processes in a Global World
Globalization and the Nation-State
Human Rights and Globalization
Cultural Imperialism, Cultural Hybridization, and Cosmopolitalism

16. ANTHROPOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Anthropology Beyond the University
Anthropology and the Challenges of Global Citizenship
Awareness and Uncertainty
Freedom and Constraint

Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-419) and index.