Key Concepts of Cultural Anthropology
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 426
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 426
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 486
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 426
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Key Concepts of Cultural Anthropology
- The text consists 13 chapters covering the breadth of the discipline of culture anthropology.
- It containd a wide array of carefully chosen, color and black-and-white photographs to enhane visual appeal and enliven textual material.
- Many tables and figures are added as the text warrants.
- A summary of the main points is added to the end of each chapter
- The key terms bolded within text are listed alphabetically in the glossary at the end of the book together with their definitions.
- A stabdard bibliography and an index are given at the end of the book.
- As an attractive, convenient, and economical alternative, Key Concepts of Cultural Anthropology is also available as an eletronic text.
About Key Concepts of Cultural Anthropology
An excellent introduction to sociocultural anthropology that allows instructor and student to have a stimulatoin entry to a scholarly field that has lent a hue to the ways of looking at our modern world. It is up to date, balanced, well-sourced, critically alert, the principle qualities we would wish to have as support to the classroom experience.
Chapter 1 Perspectives: Introducing Anthropology
Chapter 2 Fieldwork: Producing Cultural Anthropological Knowledge
Chapter 3 Culture: Distinguishing Human Condition
Chapter 4 Theorizing Culture: Growth of Anthropological Theory
Chapter 5 Language: Encoding and Communicating about Experiential World
Chapter 6 Anthropology of Art: Exploring Cultural Manifestations of Symbolic Creativity
Chapter 7 Kinship, Descent, and Marriage: Comprehending Relatedness
Chapter 8 Subsistence: Strategizing Sustenance
Chapter 9 Distribution: Probing the Aspects of Exchange and Processes of Circulation
Chapter 10 Stratification: Exploring Culturally Institutionalized Inequality
Chapter 11 Political Anthropology: Probing the Exercise of Social Power
Chapter 12 The World System: Examining the Growth of Modern World Order
Chapter 13 Globalization: Making Sense of the Culture of Capitalism
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Key Concepts of Cultural Anthropology is an excellent introduction to sociocultural anthropology that allows instructor and student to have a stimulating entry to a scholarly field that has lent a hue to the ways of looking at our modern world. It is up to date, balanced, well-sourced, critically alert, the principle qualities we would wish to have as support to the classroom experience.
Mahir Saul Professor of Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign