Kottak, Conrad Phillip,
Mirror for humanity : a concise introduction to cultural anthropology / Conrad Phillip Kottak, University of Michigan. - Eleventh edition. - xxiv, 318 pages, 57 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1-23, 4th sequence) and index.
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 What Is Anthropology? -- The Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Human Adaptability -- Adaptation, Variation, and Change -- Cultural Forces Shape Human Biology -- General Anthropology -- The Subdisciplines of Anthropology -- Cultural Anthropology -- Anthropological Archaeology -- Biological Anthropology -- Linguistic Anthropology -- Applied Anthropology -- Anthropology and Other Academic Fields -- A Humanistic Science -- Cultural Anthropology and Sociology -- Anthropology Today: School of Hope -- Summary -- ch. 2 Culture -- What Is Culture? -- Culture Is Learned -- Culture Is Symbolic -- Culture Is Shared -- Culture and Nature -- Culture Is All-Encompassing and Integrated -- Culture Is Instrumental, Adaptive, and Maladaptive -- Culture's Evolutionary Basis -- What We Share with Other Primates -- How We Differ from Other Primates -- Universality, Generality, and Particularity -- Universals and Generalities -- Particularity: Patterns of Culture -- Note continued: Culture and the Individual -- Levels of Culture -- Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, and Human Rights -- Mechanisms of Cultural Change -- Globalization -- Anthropology Today: Preserving Cultural Heritage -- Summary -- ch. 3 Doing Anthropology -- What Do Anthropologists Do? -- Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology -- Ethnography: Anthropology's Distinctive Strategy -- Observation and Participant Observation -- Conversation, Interviewing, and Interview Schedules -- The Genealogical Method -- Key Cultural Consultants -- Life Histories -- Local Beliefs and Perceptions, and the Ethnographer's -- Problem-Oriented Ethnography -- Longitudinal Studies, Team Research, and Multisited Ethnography -- Survey Research -- Doing Anthropology Right and Wrong: Ethical Issues -- The Code of Ethics -- Anthropologists and the Military -- Anthropology Today: Online Ethnography -- Summary -- ch. 4 Language and Communication -- Language -- Nonhuman Primate Communication -- Note continued: Call Systems -- Sign Language -- The Origin of Language -- Nonverbal Communication -- Kinesics -- Personal Space and Displays of Affection -- The Structure of Language -- Language, Thought, and Culture -- The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis -- Focal Vocabulary -- Sociolinguistics -- Social and Linguistic Variation -- The Language of Food -- Linguistic Diversity within Nations -- Linguistic Diversity in California -- Gender Speech Contrasts -- Stratification and Symbolic Domination -- African American Vernacular English (AAVE) -- Historical Linguistics -- Anthropology Today: Words of the Year -- Language, Culture, and History -- Language Loss -- Summary -- ch. 5 Making a Living -- Adaptive Strategies -- Foraging -- Geographic Distribution of Foragers -- Correlates of Foraging -- Adaptive Strategies Based on Food Production -- Horticulture -- Agriculture -- The Cultivation Continuum -- Agricultural Intensification: People and the Environment -- Pastoralism -- Note continued: Economic Systems -- Organization of Production in Nonindustrial Societies -- Means of Production -- Alienation in Industrial Economies -- Economizing and Maximization -- Alternative Ends -- Distribution, Exchange -- The Market Principle -- Redistribution -- Reciprocity -- Coexistence of Exchange Principles -- Potlatching -- Anthropology Today: Scarcity and the Betsileo -- Summary -- ch. 6 Political Systems -- What Is "The Political"? -- Types and Trends -- Bands and Tribes -- Foraging Bands -- Tribal Cultivators -- The Village Head -- The "Big Man" -- Pantribal Sodalities -- Nomadic Politics -- Chiefdoms -- Political and Economic Systems -- Status Systems -- The Emergence of Stratification -- State Systems -- Population Control -- Judiciary -- Enforcement -- Fiscal Support -- Social Control -- Hegemony and Resistance -- Weapons of the Weak -- Shame and Gossip -- The Igbo Women's War -- Note continued: Anthropology Today: The Illegality Industry: A Failed System of Border Control -- Summary -- ch. 7 Families, Kinship, and Marriage -- How Anthropologists View Families and Kinship -- Families -- Nuclear and Extended Families -- Industrialism and Family Organization -- Changes in North American Kinship -- The Family among Foragers -- Descent -- Attributes of Descent Groups -- Lineages, Clans, and Residence Rules -- Defining Marriage -- Exogamy and Incest -- Incest and Its Avoidance -- Endogamy -- Same-Sex Marriage -- Marriage: A Group Affair -- Gifts at Marriage -- Durable Alliances -- Divorce -- Plural Marriages -- Polygyny -- Polyandry -- The Online Marriage Market -- Anthropology Today: What Anthropologists Could Teach the Supreme Court about the Definition of Marriage -- Summary -- ch. 8 Gender -- Sex and Gender -- Recurrent Gender Patterns -- Gender Roles and Gender Stratification -- Reduced Gender Stratification: Matrilineal -- Matrilocal Societies -- Note continued: Matriarchy -- Increased Gender Stratification: Patrilineal -- Patrilocal Societies -- Patriarchy and Violence -- Gender in Industrial Societies -- Changes in Gendered Work -- Work and Family: Reality and Stereotypes -- The Feminization of Poverty -- Work and Happiness -- Beyond Male and Female -- Sexual Orientation -- Anthropology Today: Gender, Ethnicity, and a Gold Medal for Fiji -- Summary -- ch. 9 Religion -- What Is Religion? -- Expressions of Religion -- Spiritual Beings -- Powers and Forces -- Magic and Religion -- Uncertainty, Anxiety, Solace -- Rituals -- Rites of Passage -- Totemism -- Social Control -- Kinds of Religion -- Protestant Values and Capitalism -- World Religions -- Religion and Change -- Revitalization Movements and Cargo Cults -- New and Alternative Religious Movements -- Religion and Cultural Globalization -- Evangelical Protestantism and Pentecostalism -- Homogenization, Indigenization, or Hybridization? -- The Spread of Islam -- Note continued: Antimodernism and Fundamentalism -- Religious Radicalization Today -- Secular Rituals -- Anthropology Today: Newtime Religion -- Summary -- ch. 10 Ethnicity and Race -- Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity -- Status and Identity -- Minority Groups and Stratification -- Human Biological Diversity and the Race Concept -- Races Are Not Biologically Distinct -- Explaining Skin Color -- Race and Ethnicity -- The Social Construction of Race -- Hypodescent: Race in the United States -- Race in the Census -- Not Us: Race in Japan -- Phenotype and Fluidity: Race in Brazil -- Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Nationalities -- Ethnic Diversity by Region -- Nationalities without Nations -- Ethnic Tolerance and Accommodation -- Assimilation -- The Plural Society -- Multiculturalism -- Changing Demographics in the United States -- The Gray and the Brown -- The Backlash to Multiculturalism -- Ethnic Conflict -- Sectarian Violence -- Prejudice and Discrimination -- Note continued: Black Lives Matter -- Anti-Ethnic Discrimination -- Anthropology Today: Why Are the Greens So White? Race and Ethnicity in Golf -- Summary -- ch. 11 Applying Anthropology -- What is Applied Anthropology? -- The Role of the Applied Anthropologist -- Early Applications -- Academic and Applied Anthropology -- Applied Anthropology Today -- Development Anthropology -- Equity -- Negative Equity Impact -- Strategies for Innovation -- Overinnovalion -- Indigenous Models -- Anthropology and Education -- Urban Anthropology -- Medical Anthropology -- Disease Theory Systems -- Scientific Medicine versus Western Medicine -- Industrialization, Globalization, and Health -- Anthropology and Business -- Public and Applied Anthropology -- Careers and Anthropology -- Anthropology Today: Culturally Appropriate Marketing -- Summary -- ch. 12 The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality -- The World System -- World-System Theory -- The Emergence of the World System -- Note continued: Industrialization -- Causes of the Industrial Revolution -- Socioeconomic Changes Associated with the Industrial Revolution -- Industrial Stratification -- The Persistence of Inequality -- Wealth Distribution in the United States -- Environmental Risks on the American Periphery -- Colonialism and Imperialism -- The First Phase of European Colonialism: Spain and Portugal -- Commercial Expansion and European Imperialism -- The British Colonial Empire -- French Colonialism -- Colonialism and Identity -- Postcolonial Studies -- Development -- Neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism and NAFTA's Economic Refugees -- Communism, Socialism, and Postsocialism -- Communism -- Postsocialist Transitions -- The World System Today -- Anthropology Today: Mining Giant Compatible with Sustainability Institute? -- Summary -- ch. 13 Anthropology's Role in a Globalizing World -- Globalization: Its Meaning and Its Nature -- Our Global Economy -- Note continued: Energy Consumption and Industrial Degradation -- Global Climate Change -- Environmental Anthropology -- Global Assaults on Local Autonomy -- Deforestation -- Emerging Diseases -- Interethnic Contact -- Cultural Imperialism and Indigenization -- A Global System of Images -- A Global Culture of Consumption -- People in Motion -- Indigenous Peoples -- Anthropology's Lessons -- Anthropology Today: Diversity under Siege: Global Forces and Indigenous Peoples -- Summary.
9781259818424 125981842X
2017025310
Ethnology.
GN316 / .K66 2018
305.8
Mirror for humanity : a concise introduction to cultural anthropology / Conrad Phillip Kottak, University of Michigan. - Eleventh edition. - xxiv, 318 pages, 57 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1-23, 4th sequence) and index.
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 What Is Anthropology? -- The Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Human Adaptability -- Adaptation, Variation, and Change -- Cultural Forces Shape Human Biology -- General Anthropology -- The Subdisciplines of Anthropology -- Cultural Anthropology -- Anthropological Archaeology -- Biological Anthropology -- Linguistic Anthropology -- Applied Anthropology -- Anthropology and Other Academic Fields -- A Humanistic Science -- Cultural Anthropology and Sociology -- Anthropology Today: School of Hope -- Summary -- ch. 2 Culture -- What Is Culture? -- Culture Is Learned -- Culture Is Symbolic -- Culture Is Shared -- Culture and Nature -- Culture Is All-Encompassing and Integrated -- Culture Is Instrumental, Adaptive, and Maladaptive -- Culture's Evolutionary Basis -- What We Share with Other Primates -- How We Differ from Other Primates -- Universality, Generality, and Particularity -- Universals and Generalities -- Particularity: Patterns of Culture -- Note continued: Culture and the Individual -- Levels of Culture -- Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, and Human Rights -- Mechanisms of Cultural Change -- Globalization -- Anthropology Today: Preserving Cultural Heritage -- Summary -- ch. 3 Doing Anthropology -- What Do Anthropologists Do? -- Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology -- Ethnography: Anthropology's Distinctive Strategy -- Observation and Participant Observation -- Conversation, Interviewing, and Interview Schedules -- The Genealogical Method -- Key Cultural Consultants -- Life Histories -- Local Beliefs and Perceptions, and the Ethnographer's -- Problem-Oriented Ethnography -- Longitudinal Studies, Team Research, and Multisited Ethnography -- Survey Research -- Doing Anthropology Right and Wrong: Ethical Issues -- The Code of Ethics -- Anthropologists and the Military -- Anthropology Today: Online Ethnography -- Summary -- ch. 4 Language and Communication -- Language -- Nonhuman Primate Communication -- Note continued: Call Systems -- Sign Language -- The Origin of Language -- Nonverbal Communication -- Kinesics -- Personal Space and Displays of Affection -- The Structure of Language -- Language, Thought, and Culture -- The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis -- Focal Vocabulary -- Sociolinguistics -- Social and Linguistic Variation -- The Language of Food -- Linguistic Diversity within Nations -- Linguistic Diversity in California -- Gender Speech Contrasts -- Stratification and Symbolic Domination -- African American Vernacular English (AAVE) -- Historical Linguistics -- Anthropology Today: Words of the Year -- Language, Culture, and History -- Language Loss -- Summary -- ch. 5 Making a Living -- Adaptive Strategies -- Foraging -- Geographic Distribution of Foragers -- Correlates of Foraging -- Adaptive Strategies Based on Food Production -- Horticulture -- Agriculture -- The Cultivation Continuum -- Agricultural Intensification: People and the Environment -- Pastoralism -- Note continued: Economic Systems -- Organization of Production in Nonindustrial Societies -- Means of Production -- Alienation in Industrial Economies -- Economizing and Maximization -- Alternative Ends -- Distribution, Exchange -- The Market Principle -- Redistribution -- Reciprocity -- Coexistence of Exchange Principles -- Potlatching -- Anthropology Today: Scarcity and the Betsileo -- Summary -- ch. 6 Political Systems -- What Is "The Political"? -- Types and Trends -- Bands and Tribes -- Foraging Bands -- Tribal Cultivators -- The Village Head -- The "Big Man" -- Pantribal Sodalities -- Nomadic Politics -- Chiefdoms -- Political and Economic Systems -- Status Systems -- The Emergence of Stratification -- State Systems -- Population Control -- Judiciary -- Enforcement -- Fiscal Support -- Social Control -- Hegemony and Resistance -- Weapons of the Weak -- Shame and Gossip -- The Igbo Women's War -- Note continued: Anthropology Today: The Illegality Industry: A Failed System of Border Control -- Summary -- ch. 7 Families, Kinship, and Marriage -- How Anthropologists View Families and Kinship -- Families -- Nuclear and Extended Families -- Industrialism and Family Organization -- Changes in North American Kinship -- The Family among Foragers -- Descent -- Attributes of Descent Groups -- Lineages, Clans, and Residence Rules -- Defining Marriage -- Exogamy and Incest -- Incest and Its Avoidance -- Endogamy -- Same-Sex Marriage -- Marriage: A Group Affair -- Gifts at Marriage -- Durable Alliances -- Divorce -- Plural Marriages -- Polygyny -- Polyandry -- The Online Marriage Market -- Anthropology Today: What Anthropologists Could Teach the Supreme Court about the Definition of Marriage -- Summary -- ch. 8 Gender -- Sex and Gender -- Recurrent Gender Patterns -- Gender Roles and Gender Stratification -- Reduced Gender Stratification: Matrilineal -- Matrilocal Societies -- Note continued: Matriarchy -- Increased Gender Stratification: Patrilineal -- Patrilocal Societies -- Patriarchy and Violence -- Gender in Industrial Societies -- Changes in Gendered Work -- Work and Family: Reality and Stereotypes -- The Feminization of Poverty -- Work and Happiness -- Beyond Male and Female -- Sexual Orientation -- Anthropology Today: Gender, Ethnicity, and a Gold Medal for Fiji -- Summary -- ch. 9 Religion -- What Is Religion? -- Expressions of Religion -- Spiritual Beings -- Powers and Forces -- Magic and Religion -- Uncertainty, Anxiety, Solace -- Rituals -- Rites of Passage -- Totemism -- Social Control -- Kinds of Religion -- Protestant Values and Capitalism -- World Religions -- Religion and Change -- Revitalization Movements and Cargo Cults -- New and Alternative Religious Movements -- Religion and Cultural Globalization -- Evangelical Protestantism and Pentecostalism -- Homogenization, Indigenization, or Hybridization? -- The Spread of Islam -- Note continued: Antimodernism and Fundamentalism -- Religious Radicalization Today -- Secular Rituals -- Anthropology Today: Newtime Religion -- Summary -- ch. 10 Ethnicity and Race -- Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity -- Status and Identity -- Minority Groups and Stratification -- Human Biological Diversity and the Race Concept -- Races Are Not Biologically Distinct -- Explaining Skin Color -- Race and Ethnicity -- The Social Construction of Race -- Hypodescent: Race in the United States -- Race in the Census -- Not Us: Race in Japan -- Phenotype and Fluidity: Race in Brazil -- Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Nationalities -- Ethnic Diversity by Region -- Nationalities without Nations -- Ethnic Tolerance and Accommodation -- Assimilation -- The Plural Society -- Multiculturalism -- Changing Demographics in the United States -- The Gray and the Brown -- The Backlash to Multiculturalism -- Ethnic Conflict -- Sectarian Violence -- Prejudice and Discrimination -- Note continued: Black Lives Matter -- Anti-Ethnic Discrimination -- Anthropology Today: Why Are the Greens So White? Race and Ethnicity in Golf -- Summary -- ch. 11 Applying Anthropology -- What is Applied Anthropology? -- The Role of the Applied Anthropologist -- Early Applications -- Academic and Applied Anthropology -- Applied Anthropology Today -- Development Anthropology -- Equity -- Negative Equity Impact -- Strategies for Innovation -- Overinnovalion -- Indigenous Models -- Anthropology and Education -- Urban Anthropology -- Medical Anthropology -- Disease Theory Systems -- Scientific Medicine versus Western Medicine -- Industrialization, Globalization, and Health -- Anthropology and Business -- Public and Applied Anthropology -- Careers and Anthropology -- Anthropology Today: Culturally Appropriate Marketing -- Summary -- ch. 12 The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality -- The World System -- World-System Theory -- The Emergence of the World System -- Note continued: Industrialization -- Causes of the Industrial Revolution -- Socioeconomic Changes Associated with the Industrial Revolution -- Industrial Stratification -- The Persistence of Inequality -- Wealth Distribution in the United States -- Environmental Risks on the American Periphery -- Colonialism and Imperialism -- The First Phase of European Colonialism: Spain and Portugal -- Commercial Expansion and European Imperialism -- The British Colonial Empire -- French Colonialism -- Colonialism and Identity -- Postcolonial Studies -- Development -- Neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism and NAFTA's Economic Refugees -- Communism, Socialism, and Postsocialism -- Communism -- Postsocialist Transitions -- The World System Today -- Anthropology Today: Mining Giant Compatible with Sustainability Institute? -- Summary -- ch. 13 Anthropology's Role in a Globalizing World -- Globalization: Its Meaning and Its Nature -- Our Global Economy -- Note continued: Energy Consumption and Industrial Degradation -- Global Climate Change -- Environmental Anthropology -- Global Assaults on Local Autonomy -- Deforestation -- Emerging Diseases -- Interethnic Contact -- Cultural Imperialism and Indigenization -- A Global System of Images -- A Global Culture of Consumption -- People in Motion -- Indigenous Peoples -- Anthropology's Lessons -- Anthropology Today: Diversity under Siege: Global Forces and Indigenous Peoples -- Summary.
9781259818424 125981842X
2017025310
Ethnology.
GN316 / .K66 2018
305.8