Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
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Using engaging stories and clear writing, HUMANITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Tenth Edition, introduces cultural anthropology within a solid framework centered on globalization and culture change. Peoples and Bailey focus on the social and cultural consequences of globalization, emphasizing culture change and world problems. The book's engaging narrative provides new ways of looking at many of the challenges facing the world in this century.
As you explore contemporary issues including recent debates on gay marriage, cultural and economic globalization, population growth, hunger, and the survival of indigenous cultures, you will gain a better understanding of the cultural information you need to successfully navigate in today's global economy. The authors emphasize the diversity of humanity and reveal why an appreciation and tolerance of cultural differences is critical in the modern world.
Lýsing:
Using engaging stories and clear writing, HUMANITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Eleventh Edition, introduces cultural anthropology within a solid framework centered on globalization and culture change. Peoples and Bailey focus on the social and cultural consequences of globalization, emphasizing culture change and world problems. The book's engaging narrative provides new ways of looking at many of the challenges facing the world in this century.
As you explore contemporary issues including recent debates on gay marriage, cultural and economic globalization, population growth, hunger, and the survival of indigenous cultures, you will gain a better understanding of the cultural information you need to successfully navigate in today's global economy. The authors emphasize the diversity of humanity and reveal why an appreciation and tolerance of cultural differences is critical in the modern world.
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- Höfundur: James Peoples
- Útgáfa:11
- Útgáfudagur: 2017-02-07
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9781337515801
- Print ISBN: 9781337668866
- ISBN 10: 1337515809
Efnisyfirlit
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- About The Authors
- Chapter 1: The Study of Humanity
- Subfields of Anthropology
- Biological/Physical Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Cultural Anthropology
- Anthropological Linguistics
- Applications of Anthropology
- Applied Anthropology
- Careers in Anthropology
- Cultural Anthropology Today
- Anthropological Perspectives on Cultures
- Holistic Perspective
- Comparative Perspective
- Relativistic Perspective
- Some Lessons of Anthropology
- Concept Review: Primary Interests of the Four Subfields of Anthropology
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: The Process of Globalization
- summary
- Subfields of Anthropology
- Part I: Humanity, Culture, and Language
- Chapter 2: Culture
- Introducing Culture
- Defining Culture
- Shared
- Socially Learned
- Knowledge
- Patterns of Behavior
- Cultural Knowledge
- Norms
- Values
- Symbols
- Classifications and Constructions of Reality
- Worldviews
- Origins of Culture
- Culture and Human Life
- Cultural Knowledge and Individual Behavior
- Is Behavior Culturally Determined?
- Why Does Behavior Vary?
- Biology and Cultural Differences
- Cultural Universals
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Is Everyone Becoming a Westerner?
- Concept Review: Components of Cultural Knowledge
- summary
- Chapter 3: Culture and Language
- Language and Humanity
- The Power of Language
- Discreteness
- Productivity
- Arbitrariness
- Displacement
- Multimedia Potential
- How Language Works
- Sound Systems
- Words and Meanings
- Germanics, Romantics, and Native English
- Communication and Social Behavior
- Nonverbal Communication
- Speech and Social Context
- The Language of Power
- Language and Culture
- Language as a Reflection of Culture
- Language, Perceptions, and Worldview
- Concept Review: Five Properties of Language
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Globalization and Language
- summary
- Chapter 4: Cultural Diversity and Globalization
- Globalization
- Cultural Change and Diversity
- The World BeforeGlobalization
- Early European Expansion
- The Americas
- Africa
- Asia
- Early Consequences of Cultural Contact
- The Industrial Revolution
- Europe and the Americas
- Asia
- Africa
- Oceania
- Cultural Consequences of European Expansion
- The Global Economy
- Concept Review: Sources of Cultural Change
- Global Challenge and Opportunities: The New African Peoples of the Americas
- summary
- Chapter 2: Culture
- Chapter 5: The Development of Anthropological Thought
- The Emergence of Anthropology
- Nineteenth-Century Unilineal Evolutionism
- A Science of Culture?
- Anthropological Thought in the Early Twentieth Century
- Historical Particularism in the United States (1900–1940s)
- British Functionalism (1920s–1960s)
- The Fieldwork Tradition
- Mid–Twentieth Century: Rebirth of Evolutionism
- Anthropological Thought Today
- Scientific Approaches
- Humanistic Approaches
- Either, Or, or Both?
- Why Can’t All Those Anthropologists Agree?
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Global Anthropology
- Concept Review: Main Contrasts Between Scientific and Humanistic Approaches
- summary
- The Emergence of Anthropology
- Chapter 6: Methods of Investigation
- Ethnographic Methods
- Ethnographic Fieldwork
- Problems and Issues in Field Research
- Fieldwork as a Rite of Passage
- Ethnohistory
- Comparative Methods
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons
- Controlled Comparisons
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: The Changing Relationship Between Anthropologists and Indigenou
- Concept Review: Methods of Investigation
- summ ary
- Ethnographic Methods
- Chapter 7: Culture and Nature: Interacting with the Environment
- Understanding Interactions with Nature
- Hunting and Gathering
- Foraging and Culture
- What Happened to Hunters and Gatherers?
- Domestication of Plants and Animals
- Origins of Domestication: Wheres and Whens
- Advantages and Costs of Cultivation
- Horticulture
- Varieties of Horticulture
- Cultural Consequences of Horticulture
- Intensive Agriculture
- Varieties of Intensive Agriculture
- Cultural Consequences of Intensive Agriculture
- Pastoralism
- Nature and Culture in Preindustrial Times
- Industrialism
- Energy and Society
- Consequences of Industrialism
- Globalization of Industrialism
- Globalization and the Environment
- Concept Review: Major Forms of Preindustrial Adaptations and Their Cultural Consequences
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Who Should Pay to Reduce Global Warming?
- summary
- Chapter 8: Exchange in Economic Systems
- Economic Systems
- Reciprocity
- Generalized Reciprocity
- Balanced Reciprocity
- Negative Reciprocity
- Reciprocity and Social Distance
- Redistribution
- Market
- Money
- Market Exchange
- Market Economies and Capitalism
- Productivity
- Globalization and Markets
- Concept Review: Three Forms of Exchange in Economic Systems
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Globalization of Indigenous Products
- summary
- Chapter 9: Marriages and Families
- Some Definitions
- Incest Taboos
- Marriage
- Defining Marriage
- Functions of Marriage
- Two Unusual Forms
- Variations in Marriage Beliefs and Practices
- Marriage Rules
- How Many Spouses?
- Polygyny
- Polyandry
- Marriage Alliances
- Marital Exchanges
- Bridewealth
- Brideservice
- Dowry
- Same-Sex Marriageand the Culture Wars
- Postmarital Residence Patterns
- Influences on Residence Patterns
- Residence and Households
- Kinship Diagrams
- Family and Household Forms
- Matrifocal Households
- Extended Households
- Concept Review: Terms for Kinship Groups
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Marriage and Family in Global Society: The Case of Japan
- summary
- Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
- Introducing Kinship
- Why Study Kinship?
- Cultural Variations in Kinship
- Unilineal Descent
- Unilineal Descent Groups
- Descent Groups in Action
- Nonunilineal Descent
- Bilateral Kinship
- Cognatic Descent
- Influences on Kinship Systems
- Cultural Construction of Kinship
- Logic of Cultural Constructions
- Who’s an Aunt? Varieties of Kinship Terminology
- Why Do Terminologies Differ?
- Where’s Our Backbone?
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: The Changing Relationship Between Anthropologists and Indigenou
- Concept Review: Forms of Descent and Kinship
- summary
- Introducing Kinship
- Chapter 11: Gender in Comparative Perspective
- Sex and Gender
- Cultural Construction of Gender
- The Hua of Papua New Guinea
- North American Constructions
- Multiple Gender Identities
- Native American Two Spirits
- Hijra of Hindu India
- Changes in Gender Identity Attitudes and Language
- The Gendered Division of Labor
- Understanding Major Patterns
- Understanding Variability
- Gender Stratification
- Is Gender Stratification Universal?
- Influences on Gender Stratification
- Gender Stratification in Modern Societies
- Concept Review: Female and Male Differences Affecting Division of Labor
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Bridal Photos in Taiwan: Globalization and Localization
- summary
- Chapter 12: The Organization of Political Life
- Forms of Political Organization
- Bands
- Tribes
- Chiefdoms
- States
- Inca Empire
- Social Control and Law
- Social Control
- Law
- Legal Systems
- Self-Help Systems
- Court Systems
- Concept Review: Political Organizations
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Multinational Corporations Versus National Governments
- Concept Review: Legal Systems
- summary
- Forms of Political Organization
- Chapter 13: Social Inequality and Stratification
- Equalities and Inequalities
- Three Systems
- Egalitarian Societies
- Ranked Societies
- Stratified Societies
- Castes in Traditional India
- Class in the United States
- Maintaining Inequality
- Ideologies
- American Secular Ideologies
- Theories of Inequality
- Functionalist Theory
- Conflict Theory
- Who Benefits?
- Concept Review: Systems of Equality and Inequality
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Globalization and Inequality in China
- summar
- Chapter 14: Religion and Worldview
- Defining Religion
- Beliefs About Supernatural Powers
- Myths and Worldviews
- Rituals and Symbols
- Theories of Religion
- Intellectual or Cognitive Approaches
- Psychological Approaches
- Sociological Approaches
- Will Religion Disappear?
- Supernatural Explanations of Misfortune
- Sorcery
- Witchcraft
- Interpretations of Sorcery and Witchcraft
- Varieties of Religious Organization
- Individualistic Organizations
- Shamanistic Organizations
- Communal Organizations
- Ecclesiastical Organizations
- Revitalization Movements
- Melanesian Cargo Cults
- Native American Movements
- Fate of Revitalization Movements
- Concept Review: Varieties of Religious Organization
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: Religious Diversity in the United States
- summary
- Defining Religion
- Chapter 15: Art and the Aesthetic
- The Pervasiveness of Art
- Forms of Artistic Expression
- Body Arts
- Visual Arts
- Performance Arts
- Art and Culture
- Secular and Religious Art
- Art and Gender
- Social Functions of Art
- Concept Review: Forms of Artistic Expression
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: The Market Economy and Traditional Visual Arts
- summary
- Chapter 16: Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict
- Ethnic Groups
- Situational Nature of Ethnic Identity
- Attributes of Ethnic Groups
- Fluidity of Ethnic Groups
- Types of Ethnic Groups
- Civilizations
- The Problem of Stateless Nationalities
- Conflict in Northern Ireland and in Israel and Palestine
- Conflict Between Ethnic Nationalities and Political Boundaries
- Responses to Ethnic Conflict
- Homogenization
- Segregation
- Accommodation
- Results
- Consequences of Globalization
- Concept Review: Levels of Ethnic Identity
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: The Global Economy, Migration, and Transnational Communities
- Concept Review: Responses to Ethnic Differences
- summary
- Ethnic Groups
- Chapter 17: World Problems and the Practice of Anthropology
- Applied Anthropology
- Health and Health Care
- Medical Anthropology
- Scientific Medicine and Traditional Healing
- Population Growth
- Anthropological Perspectives on Population Growth
- Costs and Benefits of Children in LDCs
- World Hunger
- Scarcity or Inequality?
- Is Technology Transfer the Answer?
- Agricultural Alternatives
- Anthropologists as Advocates
- Indigenous Peoples Today
- Vanishing Knowledge
- Medicines We Have Learned
- Adaptive Wisdom
- Cultural Alternatives
- Global Challenges and Opportunities: The Question of Development
- summary
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