Cultural Anthropology

Description

Features

Highlights the notion that the societies and the cultures that people develop are dynamic systems, adapted to new situations and invigorated by new ideas:

• Globalization icons - identifies discussions of globalization throughout the textbook to help strengthen the emphasis on globalization and culture change.

• Culture Change boxes - show detailed examples of how cultures are affected by internal processes of adaptation and innovation as well as by external forces through contact with other peoples.
  • Documenting Changes in the Lives of Australian Aborigines p.52
  • Changing Norms in Language Use in the United States p.79
  • Changing Attitudes Toward Childhood and Child Care in the United States p.101
  • Transformations of Nuer Economy and Society p.142
  • Deforestation, Environmental Change, and Resource Sustainability p.170
  • Cheyenne Descent p.200
  • The Changing American Family p.213
  • Dowry in India p.223
  • Transformation of Gender Status in a Foraging Society p.255
  • Transformation of American Work in the Twentieth Century p.263
  • Caste in India p.284
  • Globalization and the Transformation of a Tongan Chiefdom into an Island State p.315
  • Reestablishing Traditional Methods of Dispute Resolution p.342
  • The Development of Religious Denominations p.377
  • Diné Art Responds to Market Forces p.401
  • Impacts of the European Slave Trade on African States p.412
  • Impacts of Indonesian State Expansion p.443

Inclusion of various ethnographic material and readings:

• Extended case studies - (2-3 per chapter) Give extended discussions of the processes described in the chapters. Enables students to understand complex relationships among various peoples and practices. Many of the case studies focus on aspects of culture change, investigating the intricate consequences of innovation and transformation.
  • Environment, Adaptation, and Disease: Malaria and Sickle-Cell Anemia in Africa and the United States p.14
  • Daughter from Danang p.24
  • Maladaptive Adaptations: Kuru and Mad Cow p.27
  • Consequences of Cultural Integration: Women and Work in the United States p.29
  • Life in Riverfront: A Midwestern Town Seen Through Japanese Eyes p.60
  • Ebonics: Language and Politics p.82
  • Sleeping Arrangements in Two Cultures p.100
  • Language and Interaction in Japan p.105
  • The Education of Aztec Children p.111
  • A Foraging Society: The Dobe Ju/'hoansi p.134
  • A Pastoral Society: The Basseri, Nomadic Pastoralists of Iran p.141
  • A Farming Society: The Kaluli of Papua New Guinea p.146
  • Child Laborers Today p.158
  • The Potlatch: An Example of Negative Reciprocity p.160
  • A Patrilineal Society: The Ganda of Uganda p.194
  • Two Matrilineal Societies: The Mohawks and the Trobriand Islanders p.196
  • A Wedding in Nepal p.225
  • Residence in Rural North India and Western Borneo p.230
  • Marriage and Divorce among the Kpelle of Liberia p.234
  • Two-Spirits: A Third Gender p.246
  • Male Dominance in Traditional Chinese Culture p.261
  • The Samoans: A Ranked Society p.279
  • Out-Groups of Japan p.289
  • Ethnic Identity in the United States p.294
  • A Band Society: The Tiwis of Northern Australia p.305
  • Age-Linked Associations in Tribal Societies: The Hidatsa and the Maasai p.308
  • The Inca of Peru and Ecuador p.321
  • Conflict Avoidance Strategies in Japan p.331
  • Conflict Resolution among the Semai of Malaysia p.332
  • Pomoan (California) and Sambian (Papua New Guinea) Warfare p.341
  • Making Contact with the Spirit World p.363
  • Puberty Rites Among the Apache and the Suku p.365
  • Pigs for the Ancestors p.372
  • Yoruba Art p.387
  • Tourists Among the Toraja p.403
  • Lakota Trade and the Consequences of Change in Economic Production p.416
  • Captive Societies of Australia and Tasmania p.423
  • Labor Migration in Mexico p.438
  • Ethnic Identity in Sudan p.441
  • Papua New Guinea's Customary Law p.458

• In Their Own Voices boxes  - Presents the words of indigenous peoples whose lives are discussed in the text. Some are from memoirs or novels while others are from anthropologists as they worked in the field. 
  • Extinction in a Nutshell p.11
  • Hamlet and the Tiv p.34
  • Notes from the Field in Morocco p.56
  • Honoring Native Languages p.76
  • Going to School in Ake, Nigeria p.114
  • An Inupiaq Whaler's Wife p.136
  • “Free to Do as You Like” p.162
  • Wedding Songs from North India p.188
  • “I Hear That I'm Going to Get Married!” p.226
  • Tsetsele Fantan on Women and AIDS in Botswana p.267
  • The Souls of Black Folk p.292
  • Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy p.312
  • Testimony from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Hearings of 1998 p.346
  • Macumba, Trance and Spirit Healing p.369
  • Artists Talk About Art p.390
  • Nelson Mandela on the Struggle Against Apartheid in South Africa p.427
  • Viktor Kaisiepo on the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People p.457

• Chapter-opening narrative -Presents a myth or fable from cultures from around the world.
  • Illustrates important themes discussed in the chapter.

Additional Resources to help students in areas such as geography, application to real world, and research:

• Locator Maps  - help students identify the cultures being discussed in their geographical context. 
  • These are found primarily in the Culture Change and Case Study features.

• Anthropology Applied feature   - Highlights the roles that anthropologists play in applying theory and knowledge to practical concerns.

  • Cultural Survival p.16

  • Development Anthropology p.41

  • Anthropology on Trial in the Amazon p.64

  • Languages Lost and Found p.90

  • The Ethnobotany of Psychotropic Substances p.124

  • Interpreting Economic Activity from Archaeological Remains p.151

  • Economic Anthropologists and Consumer Behavior p.177

  • Linkages Genealogy Projects p.205

  • Anthropologists as Expert Witnesses p.235

  • Advocacy for Women p.272

  • Working Against Human Trafficking p.298

  • Anthropologists and the NGOs p.324

  • Legal Anthropology p.349

  • Medical Anthropology and Ethnomedicine p.379

  • Ethnomusicology p.404

  • Establishing the Xingu National Park p.430

  • FUNAI Anthropologists p.462

• Controversies boxes - Presents differing opinions about key theoretical or research topics.
  • What Are the Limits of Cultural Relativism? p.8
  • How Do Anthropologists Present Knowledge About the People They Study? p.63
  • Is There Such a Thing as National Character? p.120
  • Explaining the Incest Taboo p.217
  • Is Male Dominance Universal? p.252
  • Origins of the State p.319
  • Interpreting “Art”: The Case of Inca Quipus p.393
  • Who “Owns” the Past? NAGPRA and American Anthropology p.450

New to this Edition

This second edition of Cultural Anthropology differs from the first edition in its broader inclusion of discussions of societies throughout the world.  This diversity is reflected in the societies represented in the case studies and culture change boxes located in each chapter. 

 The following studies are new or significantly expanded:

• Chapter Two:  Daughter from Danang
• Chapter Three: Urban Hausa
• Chapter Six: Popol Vuh, a Mayan sacred narritive
  • The Kaluli: Farmers of Papua New Guinea
• Chapter Seven: Igbo Trade
  • Economic Transformation of the Nuer and the Tonga
• Chapter Eight: Matrilineal Societies: the Mohawks and the Trobriand Islanders
• Chapter Nine: Residence in Rural North India and Western Borneo
• Chapter Ten: Gender Evolution
  • Gender in Pastoral Societies
• Chapter Eleven: The Samoans: A Ranked Society
• Chapter Twelve: Age Grades among the Hidatsa and Age Sets among the Maasai
• Chapter Thirteen: Sambian Warfare (New Guinea)
• Chapter Fourteen: Making Contact with the Spirit World
• Chapter Fifteen: In Their Own Voices: Helen Frankelthaler, Louise Bourgeois
  • Melanesian songs (Trobriand Islands and Kaluli)

Table of Contents

  1. What Is Anthropology?

  2. The Nature of Culture.

  3. Studying Culture.

  4. Language and Culture.

  5. Learning One's Culture.

  6. Making a Living.

  7. Economic Systems.

  8. Kinship and Descent.

  9. Marriage and the Family.

10. Gender.

11. Equality and Inequality.

12. Political Systems.

13. Conflict and Conflict Resolution.

14. Religion.

15. The Arts.

16. Colonialism and Cultural Transformations.

17. Living in a Global World.