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Humanity : an introduction to cultural anthropology / James Peoples, Garrick Bailey.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Australia : Thomson / Wadsworth, c2003.Edition: 6th editionDescription: xix, 431 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0534588131
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.5318 21 PEO
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Contents
Chapter I. The Study of Humanity

Part I. Culture, language and Growing Up.
Chapter 2. Culture
Chapter 3. Culture and Language
Chapter 4. Enculturation and Life Cycle

Part II. Theories and methods of Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 5. The Development of Anthropological Thought
Chapter 6. Methods of Investigation

Part III. The Diversity of Cultures
Chapter 7. Adaptation : Environment and Cultures
Chapter 8. Exchange in Economic Systems
Chapter 9. Marriage, Family and Residence
Chapter 10. Kinship and Descent
Chapter 11. Gender in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 12. The Organization of political life
Chapter 13. Social Inequality and Stratification
Chapter 14. Religion and World View
Chapter 15. Art and the Aesthetic

Part IV. Anthropology in the Global Community
Chapter 16. Globalization
Chapter 17. Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict
Chapter 18. World Problems and the Practice of Anthropology

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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