| Description |
xx, 489 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface 000 -- Chapter 1 -- The Anthropological Perspective 000 -- What Is Anthropology? 000 -- What Is The Concept Of Culture? 000 -- What Makes Anthropology A Cross-Disciplinary -- Discipline? 000 -- Biological Anthropology 000 -- Cultural Anthropology 000 -- Linguistic Anthropology 000 -- Archaeology 000 -- Applied Anthropology 000 -- Medical Anthropology 000 -- The Uses Of Anthropology 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested Readings 000 -- Part I The Tools of Cultural Anthropology -- Chapter 2 -- Culture and the Human Condition 000 -- How Do Anthropologists Define Culture? 000 -- What Is The Place Of Culture In Explanations Of The -- Human Condition? 000 -- Dualism, Idealism, and Materialism 000 -- Culture, History, And Human Agency 000 -- What Does It Mean To Be Human? 000 -- Holistic Explanations 000 -- Why Do Cultural Differences Matter? 000 -- Ethnocentrism 000 -- The Cross-Cultural Relationship 000 -- Cultural Relativism 000 -- How Can Cultural Relativity Improve Our -- Understanding Of Controversial Cultural -- Practices? 000 -- Genital Cutting, Gender, and Human Rights 000 -- Genital Cutting as a Valued Ritual 000 -- Culture and Moral Reasoning 000 -- Did Their Culture Make Them Do It? 000 -- Does Culture Explain Everything? 000 -- Writing against Culture 000 -- Culture Change and Cultural Authenticity 000 -- Culture and the Politics of ¿Difference¿ 000 -- The Promise Of The Anthropological Perspective 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested Readings 000 -- Chapter 3 -- Fieldwork 000 -- Why Do Fieldwork? 000 -- The Fieldwork Experience 000 -- A Meeting of Cultural Traditions 000 -- Ethnographic Fieldwork: How Has Anthropologists¿ -- Understanding Changed? 000 -- The Positivist Approach 000 -- Applying Positivist Methods to Anthropology 000 -- Questioning the Positivist Approach 000 -- The Reflexive Approach 000 -- What Is The Dialectic Of Fieldwork? 000 -- Interpretation and Translation 000 -- The Dialectic of Fieldwork: Some Examples 000 -- Ruptures in Communication 000 -- How Have Global Changes Affected Fieldwork? 000 -- Multisited Fieldwork 000 -- The Effects Of Fieldwork 000 -- How Does Fieldwork Affect the Researcher? 000 -- The Humanizing Effects of Fieldwork 000 -- Where Does Anthropological Knowledge -- Come From? 000 -- Producing Knowledge 000 -- Anthropological Knowledge as Open-Ended 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested Readings 000 -- Chapter 4 -- Anthropology in History and the Explanation -- of Cultural Diversity 000 -- Where Do Cultural Traditions Begin? 000 -- Capitalism, Colonialism, And The Origins Of -- Ethnography 000 -- Capitalism and Colonialism 000 -- The Fur Trade in North America 000 -- The Slave and Commodities Trades 000 -- Colonialism and Modernity 000 -- The Colonial Political Economy 000 -- Anthropology And The Colonial Encounter 000 -- What Explains Human Cultural Variation? 000 -- Evolutionary Typologies: The Nineteenth Century 000 -- Unilineal Cultural Evolutionism 000 -- Social Structural Typologies: The British Emphasis 000 -- Origins in the Colonial Setting 000 -- The Classification of Political Structures 000 -- Structural-Functional Theory 000 -- Doing without Typologies: Culture Area Studies -- in America 000 -- The Biology of Human Variation 000 -- Postcolonial Realities 000 -- Studying Forms of Human Society Today 000 -- The Comparative Study of Processes 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested Readings 000 -- Part II The Resources of Culture -- Chapter 5 -- Language 000 -- Why Do Anthropologists Study Language? 000 -- Language and Culture 000 -- Talking about Experience 000 -- What Makes Human Language Distinctive? 000 -- What Does It Mean To ¿Learn¿ A Language? 000 -- Language and Context 000 -- Does Language Affect How We See The World? 000 -- What Are The Components Of Language? 000 -- Phonology: Sounds 000 -- Morphology: Word Structure 000 -- Syntax: Sentence Structure 000 -- Semantics: Meaning 000 -- Pragmatics: Language in Contexts of Use 000 -- Ethnopragmatics 000 -- What Happens When Languages Come Into -- Contact? 000 -- Pidgin and Creole 000 -- Negotiating Meaning 000 -- Linguistic Inequality 000 -- Language Habits of African Americans 000 -- Language Ideology 000 -- Language Habits of Women and Men 000 -- What Is Lost If A Language Dies? 000 -- Language And Truth 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested Readings 000 -- Chapter 6 -- Culture and Individuals 000 -- Perception 000 -- Schemas and Prototypes 000 -- Perception and Convention 000 -- Illusion 000 -- Visuality: Learning to Look 000 -- Cognition 000 -- Cognitive Capacities and Intelligence 000 -- Cognitive Style 000 -- Reason and the Reasoning Process 000 -- Culture and Logic 000 -- Emotion 000 -- The Cultural Construction of Emotion 000 -- Emotion in an Eastern African Culture 000 -- Emotion in Oceania 000 -- Motivation 000 -- Socialization and Enculturation 000 -- The Sociohistorical View 000 -- Is Cognitive Development The Same For Everyone? 000 -- Self/Personality/Subjectivity 000 -- How Do Violence And Trauma Alter Our View -- Of Ourselves? 000 -- Structural Violence 000 -- Trauma 000 -- Chosen Trauma 000 -- How Does Individual Psychology Depend -- On Context? 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested Readings 000 -- Chapter 7 -- Play, Art, Myth, and Ritual 000 -- Why Play? 000 -- Thinking about Play 000 -- Some Effects of Play 000 -- Alternative Views of Reality 000 -- Do People Play By The Rules? 000 -- Culture and Sport 000 -- Sport in the Nation-State 000 -- Sport as Metaphor 000 -- Baseball and Masculinity in Cuba 000 -- Art 000 -- A Definition of Art 000 -- Transformation-Representation 000 -- ¿But Is It Art?¿ 000 -- ¿She¿s Fake¿: The Problem of the Authentic 000 -- Hip-Hop in Japan 000 -- Sculpture and the Baule Gbagba Dance 000 -- Dance and Gender in Northern Greece 000 -- The Mass Media: A Television Serial in Egypt 000 -- Myth 000 -- Myth as Orthodoxy 000 -- Myth as a Charter for Social Action 000 -- Myth as a Conceptual Tool 000 -- Ritual 000 -- A Definition of Ritual 000 -- A Birthday Party as Ritual 000 -- Ritual as Action 000 -- Rites of Passage 000 -- Play and Ritual as Complementary 000 -- How Do Cultural Practices Combine Play, Art, Myth, -- And Ritual? 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested Readings 000 -- Chapter 8 -- Worldview 000 -- What Is A Worldview? 000 -- What Is The Role Of Metaphor, Metonymy, And Symbol -- In Constructing Worldviews? 000 -- Metaphor 000 -- Metonymy 000 -- Symbol 000 -- What Are Some Key Metaphors For Constructing -- Worldviews? 000 -- Technological Metaphors 000 -- Religion 000 -- Religion and Communication 000 -- Religious Organization 000 -- Worldviews In Practice: Three Case Studies 000 -- Mind, Body, and Emotion in Huichol Religious Practice 000 -- The Peyote Hunt 000 -- Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande 000 -- Azande Witchcraft Beliefs 000 -- Dealing with Witches 000 -- Patterns of Witchcraft Accusation 000 -- Seeking Higher Consciousness among the Channelers 000 -- Maintaining And Changing A Worldview 000 -- Syncretism and Revitalization 000 -- The Bwiti Religion 000 -- Kwaio Religion 000 -- Worldviews As Instruments Of Power 000 -- Is Secularism A Worldview? 000 -- Religion and Secularism 000 -- Muslim Headscarves in France: A Case Study 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested Readings 000 -- Part III The Organization of Material Life -- Chapter 9 -- Culture and Power 000 -- Who Has The Power To Act? 000 -- Kinds of Social Power 000 -- The Role of the State 000 -- How Does A State Exercise Power? 000 -- The Role of Physical Force 000 -- Domination and Hegemony 000 -- Power and National Identity: A Case Study 000 -- Biopower and Governmentality 000 -- Trying to Elude Governmentality: A Case Study 000 -- The Ambiguity of Power 000 -- Power As An Independent Entity 000 -- The |
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Power Of The Imagination 000 -- The Power of the Weak 000 -- Bargaining for Reality 000 -- Marriage: Bargaining and Gender in Morocco 000 -- Peasant Resistance in Malaysia 000 -- History As A Prototype Of And For Political -- Action 000 -- Negotiating The Meaning Of History 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested Readings 000 -- Chapter 10 -- Making a Living 000 -- What Are The Connections Between Culture And -- Livelihood? 000 -- Self-Interest, Institutions, and Morals 000 -- Subsistence Strategies 000 -- What Are Production, Distribution, And -- Consumption? 000 -- How Are Goods Distributed And Exchanged? 000 -- Neoclassical Economics and Capitalism 000 -- Modes of Exchange 000 -- Does Production Drive Economic Activities? 000 -- Labor 000 -- Modes of Production 000 -- The Role of Conflict in Material Life 000 -- Applying Production Theory to Social and -- Cultural Life 000 -- Why Do People Consume What They Do? 000 -- The Internal Explanation: Malinowski and Basic -- Human Needs 000 -- The External Explanation: Cultural Ecology 000 -- Food Storage and Sharing 000 -- How Does Culture Construct Human Needs? 000 -- The Original Affluent Society 000 -- The Abominations of Leviticus 000 -- Banana Leaves in the Trobriand Islands 000 -- The Cultural Construction Of Utility 000 -- Institutionalized Sharing 000 -- Consumption Studies Today 000 -- Coca-Cola in Trinidad 000 -- A Dialectic Between The Meaningful -- And The Material 000 -- Key Terms 000 -- Chapter Summary 000 -- Suggested |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-473) and index |
| Subject |
Ethnology.
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| Author |
Lavenda, Robert H.
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| LC no. |
2007051450 |
| ISBN |
0195338502 (paperback) |
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9780195338508 (paperback) |
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