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Cultural Anthropology : A Perspective on the Human Condition
ISBN: 9780195338508 | 0195338502
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/31/2008
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Now more accessible and student-friendly in this full-color seventhedition, Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition exploreshow cultural creativity, human agency, and the material conditions of everydaylife interact together to shape human cultural practices. It stressescontemporary applications and human narratives across cultures, focusing on howpeople bring meaning to the world and transform it through practical action.Offering solid coverage of traditional topics, the authors incorporatecutting-edge theory and explain co... MORE
| Preface | |
| The Anthropological Perspective | |
| What Is Anthropology? | |
| What Is the Concept of Culture? | |
| What Makes Anthropology a Cross-Disciplinary Discipline? | |
| Biological Anthropology | |
| Cultural Anthropology | |
| Linguistic Anthropology | |
| Archaeology | |
| Applied Anthropology | |
| Medical Anthropology | ... MORE|
| The Uses of Anthropology | |
| The Tools Of Cultural Anthropology | |
| Culture and the Human Condition | |
| How Do Anthropologists Define Culture? | |
| What Is the Place of Culture in Explanations of the Human Condition? | |
| Dualism, Idealism, and Materialism | |
| Culture, History, and Human Agency | |
| What Does It Mean to Be Human? | |
| Holistic Explanations | |
| Why Do Cultural Differences Matter? | |
| Ethnocentrism | |
| The Cross-Cultural Relationship | |
| Cultural Relativism | |
| How Can Cultural Relativity Improve Our Understanding of Controversial Cultural Practices? | |
| Genital Cutting, Gender, and Human Rights | |
| Genital Cutting as a Valued Ritual | |
| Culture and Moral Reasoning | |
| Did Their Culture Make Them Do It? | |
| Does Culture Explain Everything? | |
| Writing against Culture | |
| Culture Change and Cultural Authenticity | |
| Culture and the Politics of Difference | |
| The Promise of the Anthropological Perspective | |
| FieldworkWhy Do Fieldwork? | |
| The Fieldwork Experience | |
| A Meeting of Cultural Traditions | |
| Ethnographic Fieldwork | |
| How Has Anthropologists Understanding Changed? | |
| The Positivist Approach | |
| Applying Positivist Methods to Anthropology | |
| Questioning the Positivist Approach | |
| The Re flexive Approach | |
| What Is the Dialectic of Fieldwork? | |
| Interpretation and Translation | |
| Beyond the Dialectic | |
| The Dialectic of Fieldwork | |
| Some Examples | |
| Ruptures in Communication | |
| How Have Global Changes Affected Fieldwork? | |
| The Effects of Fieldwork | |
| How Does Fieldwork Affect the Researcher? | |
| The Humanizing Effects of Fieldwork | |
| Where Does Anthropological Knowledge Come From? | |
| Anthropological Knowledge as Open-Ended | |
| Anthropology in History and the Explanation of Cultural Diversity | |
| Where Do Cultural Traditions Begin? | |
| Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Origins of Ethnography | |
| Capitalism and Colonialism | |
| The Fur Trade in North America | |
| The Slave and Commodities Trades | |
| Colonialism and Modernity | |
| The Colonial Political Economy | |
| Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter | |
| What Explains Human Cultural Variation? | |
| Evolutionary Typologies | |
| The Nineteenth Century | |
| Social Structural Typologies | |
| The British Emphasis | |
| Doing without Typologies | |
| Culture Area Studies in America | |
| Postcolonial Realities | |
| Studying Forms of Human Society Today | |
| The Comparative Study of Processes | |
| The Resources Of Culture | |
| Language | |
| Why Do Anthropologists Study Language? | |
| Language and Culture | |
| Talking about Experience | |
| What Makes Human Language Distinctive? | |
| What Does It Mean to Learn a Language? | |
| Language and Context | |
| Does Language Affect the Way We See the World? | |
| What Are the Components of Language? | |
| Phonology | |
| Sounds | |
| Morphology | |
| Word Structure | |
| Syntax | |
| Sentence Structure | |
| Semantics | |
| Meaning | |
| Pragmatics | |
| Language in Contexts of Use | |
| Ethnopragmatics | |
| What Happens | |
| When Languages Come into Contact? | |
| Pidgin and Creole | |
| Negotiating Meaning | |
| Linguistic Inequality | |
| Language Habits of African Americans | |
| Language Ideology | |
| Language Habits of Women and Men | |
| What Is Lost If a Language Dies? | |
| Language and Truth | |
| Culture and Individuals | |
| Perception | |
| Schemas and Prototypes:Perception and Convention | |
| Illusion | |
| Visuality | |
| Learning to Look | |
| Cognition | |
| Cognitive Capacities and Intelligence | |
| Cognitive Style | |
| Reason and the Reasoning Process | |
| Culture and Logic | |
| EmotionThe Cultural Construction of Emotion | |
| Emotion in an Eastern African Culture | |
| Emotion in Oceania | |
| MotivationSocialization and Enculturation | |
| The Sociohistorical View | |
| Is Cognitive Development the Same for Everyone? | |
| Self/Personality/Subjectivity | |
| How Do Violence and Trauma Alter Our View of Ourselves? | |
| Structural Violence | |
| Trauma | |
| Chosen Trauma | |
| How Does Individual Psychology Depend on Context? | |
| Play, Art, Myth, and RitualWhy Play? | |
| Thinking about Play | |
| Some Effects of Play | |
| Alternative Views of Reality | |
| Do People Play by the Rule | |
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