Inside cultures
Subtitle: a new introduction to cultural anthropology
By: William Balee
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598746051
Subjects: Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "New ways of viewing culture require new approaches to anthropology textbooks. This concise, contemporary, and inexpensive alternative option for instructors of cultural anthropology breaks away from the traditional structure of introductory textbooks. Emphasizing the interplay of complexity and subsistence,the interaction between humans and their environment, the tension between human universals and cultural variation, and the impacts of colonialism on traditional cultures, William Balees new textbook shows students how cultural anthropology can help us understand the complex, globalized world around us. Personal stories of the author's fieldwork in Amazonia, sidebars with fascinating cases of cultures in action, timelines, and other pedagogical elements enliven the text for undergraduate readers"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Sidebars and Timelines; title: Prologue; title: Chapter 1: The Study of Us; title: Overview; title: Cultural Anthropology and General Anthropology; title: The Species Known as "Us"; title: The Four Fields; title: Cultural Anthropology; title: Ethnography and Participant Observation; title: Ethnology; title: Ethnohistory; title: Enculturation and Cultural Relativism; title: Physical Anthropology; title: Studying Human Origins and Evolution; title: What New Fossils Say; title: What Genes Can Tell Us; title: Anthropological Archaeology; title: Linguistic Anthropology; title: Holism and the Four Fields; title: Culture and change; title: Anthropology and Related Disciplines; title: Summary; title: Chapter 2: Sociocultural Universals; title: Overview; title: Eleven Universals; title: Sociality; title: Concepts of Human Relatedness; title: The Capacity for Culture; title: Cumulative Culture; title: The Capacity for Language; title: Animal Communication; title: Attributes of Language; title: Transmission of Culture: Enculturation and Diffusion; title: Religion and Art; title: Rules Governing Behavior; title: The Notion of Taboo; title: The Incest Taboo; title: Ethnocentrism; title: Sex and Gender; title: Age Categories; title: Economy and Exchange; title: Reciprocity; title: Thinking about and Classifying the Environment; title: Basic Color Terms; title: Names for Flora and Fauna; title: Summary; title: Chapter 3: Cultural Variation; title: Overview; title: Variation in Key Cultural Institutions; title: Naming Practices; title: Kinds of Names; title: Name Sharing; title: The Life Cycle; title: Birth Rites; title: Rites of Initiation; title: Sodalities and Hazing; title: Diverse Taboos; title: Food Taboos; title: Contact and Verbal Taboos; title: Enculturation in Different Societies; title: Manifestations of Ethnocentrism; title: Race and Racism; title: Variation on Gender; title: Religious Beliefs and Organizations; title: Animism and Totemism; title: Individualistic Religious Behavior; title: Communal Religious Behavior; title: Shamanic Religious Behavior; title: Ecclesiastical Religious Behavior; title: Cosmologies and Explanations of the Unknown; title: Economic Variation; title: Redistribution; title: Taxation; title: Diversity of Emic Classifications; title: Summary; title: Chapter 4: Where Anthropology Comes From; title: Overview; title: The Eighteenth Century; title: The Enlightenment in Europe and North America; title: The Nineteenth Century; title: Charles Darwin (1809-1882); title: Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881); title: Karl Marx (1818-1883); title: Museums; title: The Early Twentieth Century; title: Franz Boas (1858-1942) and the Boasian Research Program; title: Challenging Unilinear Cultural Evolution; title: Cultural Relativism; title: Culture Areas; title: Salvage Ethnography; title: Patterns and Configurations of Culture; title: Women's Dress Fashions; title: Forgotten Geniuses; title: Culture and Personality; title: The Problem of Reductionism; title: Community Studies; title: Social Anthropology in Europe; title: An Exception to Economic Man; title: The Organization of Primitive Society; title: Structural-Functionalism; title: Summary; title: Chapter 5: Contemporary Theory and Method; title: Overview; title: Modernity; title: Cultural Evolution in a New Guise; title: Social and Cultural Anthropology; title: Social Structure and Totemism; title: Ecological and Materialist Theories; title: Postmodernity; title: Late 20th -Century Debates; title: Culture as Text; title: Anthropological Sciences vs. Humanist Trends; title: Current Methods and Issues in Cultural Anthropology; title: Participation Observation Revisited; title: Preparations for Fieldwork; title: Arrival Scenes; title: Psychological Adjustments; title: Emics and Etics, Observations and Interviews; title: Ethnographic Writing; title: Specific Tools; title: Demographic Sampling and Other Preliminaries; title: Studying the Past: Documentary Analysis; title: Studying the Past: Oral History; title: Visual Anthropology; title: Time Allocation; title: Freelisting; title: Summary; title: Chapter 6: The Basics of Human Social Organization; title: Overview; title: One Species, Two Sexes; title: The Sexual Division of Labor; title: Gender and Marriage; title: How and Why People Get Married; title: Usual Marriage Forms; title: Contracting of Marriage; title: Bridewealth; title: Brideservice; title: Dowry; title: Postmarital Residence; title: Unilocal and Neolocal Forms; title: Virilocal and Uxorilocal Residence; title: Descent Rules; title: The Atom of Kinship; title: A Minimal Society Constructed from Kinship; title: The Classification of Relatives; title: Hawaiian and Sudanese; title: Eskimo; title: Summary; title: Chapter 7: Origins and Development of Complex Societies; title: Overview; title: The Segmentary Model of Society; title: Social and Political Differentiation; title: Egalitarianism; title: The Concept of Equality; title: Ranking; title: Big Men; title: Stratification; title: Theories of the State; title: Minimal Complexity; title: Complexification; title: Voluntarism; title: Compulsion; title: Hydraulic theory; title: Multilinear evolution; title: Environmental circumscription; title: Features of Complexity; title: Centralization of Authority; title: Expansion and Contraction; title: Summary; title: Chapter 8: Ecology, Landscape, and Culture Overview; title: Environmental Impacts of Humans and Their Ancestors; title: Pleistocene Overkill?; title: The Impact of Agriculture on World Landscapes; title: The Impact of Hunter-Gatherers on World Landscapes; title: Hunter-Gatherers: Simple vs. Complex; title: Simple Hunter-Gatherers; title: Complex Hunter-Gatherers; title: Agrarian Society; title: Agriculture; title: Extensive Agriculture; title: The Tropics; title: Temperate North America; title: Forest Islands of West Africa; title: Intensive Agriculture; title: Nomadic Pastoralism; title: Industrial Agriculture; title: Summary; title: Chapter 9: Colonialism and the World System; title: Overview; title: What Is Colonialism?; title: The World System; title: The Expansion of Europe; title: Europe and the Americas; title: The Atlantic Slave Trade; title: Effects of Colonialism Elsewhere; title: The Worldwide Rise of Money and Capital Markets; title: Money and Empire; title: Emergence of New Ethnic Identities during Colonialism; title: Religious Transformations; title: Ethnic Nationalism; title: Acculturation; title: Diasporas; title: Construction of Ethnic Identity; title: Primordialism; title: Summary; title: Chapter 10: Collapse and Change; title: Overview; title: Complexity and Its Discontents; title: Loss of Complexity and Collapse; title: Overshoot as Explanation; title: Revolt and Rebellion as Explanation; title: Climate Change as Explanation; title: Conquest and Colonialism as Explanation; title: Foragers and Farmers; title: The Wild Yam Question; title: How People Lose Agriculture; title: Summary; title: Chapter 11: Applications of Cultural Anthropology; title: Overview; title: Applied Anthropology; title: Who Benefits?; title: Military Applications; title: Cultural Anthropology in World War II; title: Counterinsurgency Efforts during the Cold War; title: Embedding Anthropologists and the Human Terrain System; title: Methodologies of Applied Anthropology; title: Participant-Intervention; title: New Methods; title: Specific Applications; title: Medical Applications; title: Food Security and Overnutrition Applications; title: Ethnotourism and Ecotourism; title: Aiding Cooperatives; title: Summary; title: Chapter 12: Globalization and Indigeneity; title: Overview; title: Globalization; title: The Meaning of Globalization; title: Earlier Kinds of Globalization?; title: The Twenty-First Century; title: Follow the Money; title: Globalization and Cultural Anthropology; title: Indigeneity; title: Definitions; title: Resurgence; title: Challenges to the Concept of Indigeneity; title: Indigeneity, Globalization, and Language Loss; title: Indigeneity and the Right to Land and Work; title: Indigeneity and Landscapes; title: Living Artifacts, Living Landscapes; title: Cultural Anthropology as Transduction; title: Summary; title: Epilogue; title: Glossary; title: References; title: Index; title: About the Author.