Cultural anthropology / Serena Nanda.
Publication details: Belmont, CA : West/Wadsworth Pub., c1991.Edition: 4th editionDescription: xxi, (various paging) : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0534139566
- 0534139582
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Contents;
Part one: Anthropology and culture
Chapter 1: Anthropology and human diversity
Specialization in anthropology
Doing cultural anthropology
What we learn from anthropology
Chapter 2: Theory in cultural anthropology
Theories of culture
Cultural ecology
Anthropology and uses of ethnographic data
Chapter 3: Human adaptation and culture
Hominid adaptations
Adaptations and human diversity
Cultural adaptation
etc.
Chapter 4: The cultural context of human behavior
Cultural patterning of "Reality"
Cultural patterning of perception and cognition
Doing what comes naturally?
Chapter 5: Language
Origins and development of human language
Communication and language
Structural variation in language
etc.
Chapter 6: Learning culture
Biology, socialization, and culture
Gender role socialization
Early socialization
etc.
Part two: Sociocultural adaptations
Chapter 7: Getting food
The environment and cultural diversity
Major food-getting patterns
etc.
Chapter8: Economics
Anthropologists study economics
Production
Distribution: Systems of exchange
Chapter 9: Marriage, family, and domestic groups
Marriage and the family: Functions
Marriage rules
Choosing a mate
etc.
Chapter 10: Kinship
Relationships through blood and marriage
Rules of descent and the formation of descent groups
The classification of kin
Chapter 11: Nonkin-based forms of association
Groups based on age
Associations based on sex
Associations based on ethnicity
etc.
Chapter 12: Social ranking and stratification
Egalitarian socities
rank societies
Stratified societies
etc.
Chapter 13: Political systems and social control
Regulating human behavior
Band societies
Tribal societies
etc.
Chapter 14: Religion
The function of religion
Religion and symbolism
Structure and anti-structure
etc.
Chapter 15: The arts
Anthropological perspectives
Graphic and plastic arts
Music
etc.
Chapter 16: Change in the contemporary world
Cultural contact and cultural change
Modernization, "Development", and change
Chapter 17: The uses of anthropology
Anthropology and public policy
Anthropologists as advocates
Development anthropology: Planned change in peasant communities
etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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