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Author Peoples, James G., author

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

Edition Tenth edition
Imprint Stamford, CT : Cengage Learning, [2015]
©2015

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 OWU Beeghly OWU HistColl  GN316 .P384 2015     LIB USE ONLY
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Description xvi, 462 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
Format volume
  
Notes Previous edition: 2012
Bibliography notes Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Complete contents Machine generated contents note: 1. 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 Five Subfields of Anthropology -- Global Challenges and Opportunities The Process of Globalization -- Summary -- pt. I Humanity, Culture, and Language -- 2. Culture -- Introducing Culture -- Defining Culture -- Shared... -- ... Socially Learned... -- ... Knowledge... -- ... and 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 -- 3. Culture and Language -- Language and Humanity -- Power of Language -- Discreteness -- Arbitrariness -- Productivity -- Displacement -- Multimedia Potential -- How Language Works -- Sound Systems -- Words and Meanings -- Germanics, Romantics, and Indian Givers -- Communication and Social Behavior -- Nonverbal Communication -- Speech and Social Context -- 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 -- 4. Cultural Diversity and Globalization -- Cultural Change and Diversity -- World Before Globalization -- Globalization -- Early European Expansion -- Americas -- Africa -- Asia -- Cultural Consequences -- Industrial Revolution -- Asia -- Africa -- Oceania -- Consequences of European Expansion -- Global Challenges and Opportunities The Maroons: The New African Peoples of the Americas -- Summary -- pt. II Theories and Methods of Cultural Anthropology -- 5. Development of Anthropological Thought -- Emergence of Anthropology -- Late-Nineteenth-Century Unilineal Evolutionism -- A Science of Culture? -- Anthropological Thought in the Early Twentieth Century -- Historical Particularism in the United States (ca. 1900 -- 1940) -- British Functionalism, 1920s -- 1960s -- 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 -- 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 Indigenous Peoples -- Concept Review Methods of Investigation -- Summary -- pt. III Diversity of Culture -- 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 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 -- 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 -- 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 Marriage and 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 Groups Formed on the Basis of Kinship Relationships -- Global Challenges and Opportunities Marriage and Family in Global Society: The Case of Japan -- Summary -- 10. Kinship and Descent -- Introducing Kinship -- Why Study Kinship? -- Cultural Variations in Kinship -- Unilineal Descent -- Unilineal Descent Groups -- Descent Groups in Action -- Avunculocality Revisited -- Nonunilineal Descent -- Bilateral -- Cognatic -- Influences on Kinship Systems -- Cultural Construction of Kinship -- Logic of Cultural Constructions -- Varieties of Kinship Terminology -- Why Do Terminologies Differ? -- Where's Our Backbone? -- Global Challenges and Opportunities Patrilineality and Globalization in China -- Concept Review Forms of Descent and Kinship -- Summary -- 11. Gender in Comparative Perspective -- Sex and Gender -- Cultural Construction of Gender -- Hua of Papua New Guinea -- North American Constructions -- Multiple-Gender Identities -- Native American Two Spirits -- Hijra of Hindu India -- Gendered Division of Labor -- Understanding Major Patterns -- Fertility Maintenance -- Reproductive Roles -- Relative Strength -- Compatibility with Child Care -- Understanding Variability -- Gender Stratification -- Is Gender Stratification Universal? -- Influences on Gender Stratification -- Descent and Postmarital Residence -- Gender Stratification in Industrial Societies -- Concept Review Female/Male Differences Affecting Major Patterns in the Gendered Division of Labor -- Global Challenges and Opportunities Bridal Photos in Taiwan: Globalization and Localization -- Summary -- 12. Organization of Political Life -- Forms of Political Organization -- Bands -- Concept Review Political Organization -- Tribes -- Chiefdoms -- States -- Inca Empire -- Social Control and Law -- Social Control -- Law -- Legal Systems -- Self-Help Systems -- Court Systems -- Incipient Court Systems -- Courts of Mediation -- Courts of Regulation -- Global Challenges and Opportunities Multinational Corporations Versus the Nation-State -- Concept Review Legal Systems -- Summary -- 13. Social Inequality and Stratification -- Equalities and Inequalities -- Equalities and Inequalities: Three Systems -- Egalitarian Societies -- Ranked Societies -- Stratified Societies -- Castes in Traditional India -- Classes in Industrial Societies: 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 -- Summary -- 14. Religion and Worldview -- Defining Religion -- Beliefs About Supernatural Powers -- Myths and Worldviews -- Rituals and Symbols -- Theories of Religion -- Intellectual/Cognitive Approaches -- Psychological Approaches -- Sociological Approaches -- 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 -- 15. Art and the Aesthetic -- Pervasiveness of Art -- Forms of Artistic Expression -- Body Arts -- Visual Arts -- Performance Arts -- Concept Review Forms of Artistic Expression -- Art and Culture -- Secular and Religious Art -- Art and Gender -- Social Functions of Art -- Global Challenges and Opportunities The Market Economy and Traditional Visual Arts -- Summary -- pt. IV Anthropology in the Global Community -- 16. Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict -- Ethnic Groups
  
Subject Ethnology
Anthropology -- Philosophy
Add'l Author Bailey, Garrick Alan, author
Alternate Title O.W.U. Faculty Publications
  
ISBN/ISSN 9781285733371
1285733371
LCCN 2013940728
OCLC # 864087725