Cultural anthropology : a perspective on the human condition /
Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda.
- 6th edition.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- xvi, 432 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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.