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Cultural anthropology / Nancy Bonvillain.

Bonvillain, Nancy. (Author).

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ISBN: 9780205860364
ISBN: 0205860362
Physical Description: xxi, 530 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Education, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. What Is Anthropology? -- Preview -- The Study of Humanity -- The Concept of Culture -- A Holistic Perspective -- A Comparative Perspective -- The Four Subfields of Anthropology -- Cultural Anthropology -- Linguistic Anthropology -- Archaeology -- Biological Anthropology -- Applied Anthropology -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 2. The Nature of Culture -- Preview -- What Is Culture? -- Characteristics of Culture -- Culture Is Shared -- Culture Is Learned -- Culture Is Adaptive -- Culture Is Integrated -- Culture Is Based on Symbols -- Culture Organizes the Way People Think about the World -- Culture Change -- Internal Culture Change -- External Culture Change -- Global Culture -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 3. Studying Culture -- Preview -- Anthropology and the Explanation of Cultural Diversity -- Evolutionism -- Empiricism -- Functionalism.

Contents note continued: Modern Theoretical Perspectives: An Overview -- Materialist Perspectives -- Structuralist Perspectives -- Interpretive Anthropology -- Conflict Perspectives and the Analysis of Culture and Power -- Reflexive Anthropology -- Ethnography and Fieldwork -- Cross-Cultural Comparisons -- Ethnohistorical Research -- Ethnographic Fieldwork -- Doing Fieldwork -- Anthropological Research in Urban Societies -- The Anthropology of Anthropology -- Ethical Issues in Anthropology -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 4. Language and Culture -- Preview -- What Is Language? -- The Components of Language -- Phonology: The System of Sounds -- Morphology: The Structure of Words -- Syntax: The Structure of Sentences -- Semantics: The Study of Meaning -- Nonverbal Communication -- Linguistic Anthropology -- Linguistic Relativity -- Language, Worldview, and Revitalization Efforts -- The Study of Language Speakers -- Language and Dialects.

Contents note continued: Language and Gender, Class, and Race -- African American English -- Ethnosemantics -- Componential Analysis -- Cultural Presuppositions -- Ethnography of Communication -- Processes of Language Change -- Creoles, Pidgins, and Lingua Francas -- Historical Linguistics -- Loanwords -- Language and Globalization -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 5. Learning One's Culture -- Preview -- The Process of Enculturation -- Becoming a Human Being -- Child Rearing -- Informal and Formal Learning -- Learning Skills and Values -- Learning Behavioral Expectations -- Age and Gender Socialization -- Rites of Passage -- Schooling -- Psychological Anthropology -- Culture and Personality Traits -- Culture and Self-Concept -- Culture and Cognition -- Deviance and Abnormal Behavior in Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Responses to "Mental Illness" -- Culture-Specific Psychological Disorders -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions.

Contents note continued: Myanthrolab Connections -- 6. Making a Living -- Preview -- Economic Anthropology -- Understanding Human Subsistence Patterns -- Foraging versus Food Production -- Ecosystem, Adaptation, and Carrying Capacity -- Subsistence and Settlement Pattern -- Subsistence and Population -- Subsistence, Work, and Division of Labor -- Subsistence and Social Relations -- Foraging -- Ecological Factors -- Optimal Foraging -- Population Factors -- Social and Cultural Factors -- Land, Labor, and Production in Foraging Societies -- Pastoralism -- Combined Subsistence Strategies -- Land and Labor in Pastoralist Societies -- Nomadic Pastoralism -- Horticulture -- Impacts of Sedentism and Surpluses -- Slash-and-Burn Horticulture -- Gender Allocation of Work -- Agriculture -- Intensive Agriculture and Crop Variety -- Subsistence and Culture Change -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 7. Economic Systems -- Preview -- Analyzing Economic Systems.

Contents note continued: Allocating Land and Resources -- Producing Goods -- Organizing Labor -- Distributing and Exchanging Products and Services -- Market Economies and Capitalism -- Impacts of Colonial Expansion, Industrialism, and Globalization -- Colonialism and the Exploitation of Labor -- Industrial Economies -- Industrial Agriculture -- Social Consequences of Capitalism and Industrialism -- Comparing Subsistence Strategies -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 8. Kinship and Descent -- Preview -- Kinship Systems -- Bilateral Descent -- Unilineal Descent -- Matrilineal and Patrilineal Systems -- Prevalence of Matrilineal and Patrilineal Descent -- Matrilineal and Patrilineal Societies Compared -- Influence and Inheritance in Unilineal Descent Groups -- Other Forms of Unilineal Descent -- Unilineal Descent Groups -- Lineages -- Exogamy and Endogamy -- Clans -- Phratries and Moieties -- Patterns of Relationships -- Patterns of Change.

Contents note continued: Kinship Terminology Systems -- The Eskimo and Hawaiian Systems -- The Crow, Omaha, and Sudanese Systems -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 9. Marriage and the Family -- Preview -- Defining Marriage And Family -- Families and Ideal Types -- Nuclear Families -- Extended and Joint Families -- Endogamy, Exogamy, and the Incest Taboo -- Effects of Exogamy on Social Organization -- Effects of Endogamy on Social Organization -- Forms of Marriage -- Polygyny and Polyandry -- Explanations of Polygyny -- Specialized Adaptive Forms of Marriage -- Same-Sex Marriage -- Marriage as Alliance and Economic Exchange -- Bridewealth and Brideservice -- Groom-Service and Groom-Wealth -- Dowry -- Marriage as a Rite of Passage -- Patterns of Residence After Marriage -- Matrilocal and Patrilocal Residence -- Avunculocal Residence -- Bilocal and Neolocal Residence -- Correlates of Residence Patterns -- Widowhood and Divorce.

Contents note continued: The Levirate and Sororate -- Divorce -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 10. Gender -- Preview -- Sex and Gender -- Evolutionary Perspectives -- The Cultural Construction of Gender Identity -- Gender and Sexuality -- Gender and Homosexuality -- Gender Roles and Relations -- Division of Labor by Gender -- Gender and Status -- Gender and Subsistence -- Foragers and Gender -- Gender in Pastoral Societies -- Gender in Horticultural Societies -- Gender in Agricultural States -- Industrialism, Postindustrialism, and Gender -- Globalization and Gender -- Women's Roles in Urban and Rural Economic Development -- Women in Changing Socialist States -- Gender and Political Representation -- Impacts of Ideology on Gender Constructs -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 11. Equality And Inequality -- Preview -- Equality, Inequality, and Social Stratification -- Egalitarian Societies -- Ranked Societies.

Contents note continued: Stratified Societies -- Explaining Social Stratification -- Caste and Class -- Determinants of Class -- Social Class and Language -- Slavery -- Race and Ethnicity -- Race as Caste -- Race in the United States -- White Privilege -- Race in Brazil -- Ethnic Identity -- Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Ideology in American Society -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 12. Political Systems -- Preview -- Political Anthropology -- Types of Political Organization -- Bands -- Tribes -- Confederacies -- Chiefdoms -- Characteristics of State Societies -- Political Change and State Societies -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 13. Conflict and Conflict Resolution -- Preview -- Evolutionary Perspectives on Conflict -- Avoiding Conflict -- Politeness -- Channeled Aggression -- Role of Reciprocity in Conflict Avoidance -- Witchcraft and Ritual in Conflict Resolution.

Contents note continued: Patterns of Family and Community Conflict -- Family Violence -- Conflicts in Bands and Tribes -- Blood Vengeance and the Feud -- Patterns of Conflict Between Groups -- Warfare -- Impacts of Globalization on Warfare -- Warfare in State Societies -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 14. Religion -- Preview -- What Is Religion? -- The Origins and Functions of Religion -- Explaining the World -- Solace, Healing, and Emotional Release -- Social Cohesion -- Social Control -- Economic Adaptation -- Spirit Beings and Forces -- Animism and Animatism -- Gods and Heroes -- Ancestors, Ghosts, and Demons -- Mana, Totems, and Taboos -- Religious Practitioners -- Mediums, Diviners, and Healers -- Shamans and Priests -- Religious Practice -- Sacred and Secular Rituals -- Prayer and Sacrifice -- Rites of Passage -- Healing or Curing -- Magic and Witchcraft -- Religion and Culture Change -- Revitalization Movements -- Cargo Cults.

Contents note continued: Role of Founders in Buddhist, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic Traditions -- Religion and Globalization -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 15. The Arts -- Preview -- What Is Art? -- Cultural Aesthetics -- Body Art -- Origins and Functions of Art Objects -- The Arts of Sound and Movement -- Oral Literature and Written Texts -- Art and Globalization -- Art and identity -- Art in the Global Economy -- Art and Tourism -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 16. Colonialism and Cultural Transformations -- Preview -- European Colonialism -- Colonialism Defined -- A World System -- Types of Colonies -- The European Slave Trade -- Slavery in Africa -- Slavery in the Americas -- Trade and Settlement in North America -- The Fur Trade -- Westward Expansion and Depopulation -- Spanish Colonization in the Americas -- Spanish Landholding in the Colonies -- Mining Quotas -- Intermarriage -- The Mission System.

Contents note continued: Agents of Directed Culture Change -- Missionaries -- Schoolteachers -- Government Officials -- A Cash Economy -- Justifications for Colonial Rule -- White Man's Burden -- A Sacred Trust -- The Reservation System -- Reactions of Indigenous Peoples to European Colonizers -- Trade Goods and Gods -- Guns and Other Technological Wonders -- Native Resistance and Retaliation -- Globalization in the Postcolonial Era -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections -- 17. Living in a Global World -- Preview -- Migration -- Rural-to-Urban Migration -- Transnational Migration -- Ethnogenesis and Ethnic Identities -- Transnationalism -- Nationalism and Pluralism -- Genocide? The Case of Rwanda -- Reactions against Pluralism -- Globalization and Cultural Identities -- A Global Identity? -- Cultural Minorities in a Global World -- United States and Canada -- Mexico and Indigenismo -- Brazil and the "Indian Problem" -- Indians of the Brazilian Savanna.

Contents note continued: "Uncontacted Tribes" in the Amazon -- Costs of Economic Development in Ecuador and Bolivia -- Developments in Africa -- Legal Rights and International Recognition -- Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples -- Conservation, Ecotourism, and Indigenous Lands -- Chapter Summary -- Review Questions -- Myanthrolab Connections.