Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local LivesRoutledge, 08.01.2016 - 408 Seiten Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives presents all the key areas of cultural anthropology as well as providing original and nuanced coverage of current and cutting-edge topics. An exceptionally clear and readable introduction, it helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world and everyday life. Thorough treatment is given throughout the text to issues such as globalization, colonialism, ethnicity, nationalism, neoliberalism, and the state. Changes for the third edition include a brand new chapter on medical anthropology and an updated range of cases studies with a fresh thematic focus on China. The book contains a number of features to support student learning, including:
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Inhalt
Detailed chapter outline | |
Detailed chapter outline | |
Traditional anthropology and beyond | |
Practicing anthropology | |
UNDERSTANDING AND STUDYING CULTURE | |
Culture is symbolic | |
method in cultural anthropology | |
Summary | |
Blank slates elementary ideas and human nature | |
American culture and personality | |
The construction of gendered persons | |
Gender divisions and differences | |
The construction of alternate genders | |
RACE | |
The anthropology of race | |
Measuring and managing mankind | |
The anthropological crisis of the midtwentieth century | |
The nineteenth century and the lscience of manm | |
Summary | |
Human language as a communication system | |
Morphology or semantics | |
Pragmatics or sociolinguistics | |
Language and political power | |
Ritual languages | |
Language acquisition and the linguistic relativity hypothesis | |
UNDERSTANDING ANTHROPOLOGY | |
The modern anthropological critique of race | |
The anthropology of ethnicity | |
HUMANS NATURE AND SOCIAL | |
INTERACTING WITH THE NON | |
A HOLISTIC | |
COLONIALISM AND THE ORIGIN | |
CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL IN | |
HEALTH ILLNESS BODY AND CULTURE | |
Bibliography | |
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