A Cultural Anthropology Handbook

Preface

MODULE ONE-INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
Unit One: What Is Anthropology?
Unit Two: The Relationship between Cultural Anthropology and Other Social Sciences
Unit Three: How Does One Become an Anthropologist?

MODULE TWO-DESCRIBING AND ANALYZING CULTURES
Unit One: Anthropological Terminology
Unit Two: Anthropological Levels of Analysis

MODULE THREE-THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Unit One: The Beginnings of Anthropology
Unit Two: The Evolutionary School of Cultural Anthropology (Cultural Evolutionism)
Unit Three: Diffusionism
Unit Four: Other Anthropological Schools and Theories

MODULE FOUR-LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Unit One: What Is a Language?
Unit Two: Linguistics- The Study of Language

MODULE FIVE-ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Unit One: Food Production and Culture
Unit Two: The Allocation of Resources in Primitive Societies

MODULE SIX-SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Unit One: Kinship Terminology
Unit Two: Kinship Symbols and Kinship Typologies
Unit Three: Other Forms of Social Organization (Age Sets, Voluntary Associations and Social Stratification)

MODULE SEVEN-POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Unit One: Political Allocation and Political Typologies
Unit Two: Leadership

MODULE EIGHT-RELIGION, MAGIC, AND MYTHOLOGY
Unit One: Conceptual Problems in the Study of Magic and Religion
Unit Two: A Typology of Religious and Magic Practitioners

Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

Selected Readings
ARTICLE 1: Advancing the Status of Nursing in Egypt
ARTICLE 2: Food Classifications and the Diets of Young Children in Rural Egypt
ARTICLE 3: Indigenous Institutions and Adaptation To Famine
ARTICLE 4: Indigenous Fertility Regulating Methods in Two Egyptian Villages
ARTICLE 5: Task Analysis in Education and Evaluation: An Application among Midwives in the Republic of Yemen
ARTICLE 6: She Is No Stranger: The Traditional Midwife in Egypt
ARTICLE 7: The Copts and Muslims of Egypt
ARTICLE 8: Female Gential Cutting: A Training Module

References