Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age

Publisher’s Notice
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Title
Copyright
About the Author
Brief Contents
Contents
Preface
What’s New in the Third Edition
Additional Resources
Acknowledgments
Half Title
Part 1: Anthropology for the 21st Century
Chapter 1: Anthropology in a Global Age
What Is Anthropology?
Through What Lenses Do Anthropologists Gain a Comprehensive View of Human Cultures?
What Is Globalization, and Why Is It Important for Anthropology?
How Is Anthropology Changing Today?
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Chapter 2: Culture
What Is Culture?
How Has the Culture Concept Developed in Anthropology?
How Are Culture and Power Related?
How Much of Who You Are Is Shaped by Biology, and How Much by Culture?
How Is Culture Created?
How Is Globalization Transforming Culture?
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Chapter 3: Fieldwork and Ethnography
What Is Unique about Ethnographic Fieldwork, and Why Do Anthropologists Conduct This Kind of Research?
How Did the Practice of Fieldwork Develop?
How Do Anthropologists Get Started Conducting Fieldwork?
How Do Anthropologists Write Ethnography?
What Moral and Ethical Concerns Guide Anthropologists in Their Research and Writing?
How Are Fieldwork Strategies Changing in Response to Globalization?
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Chapter 4: Language
What Is Language and Where Does It Come From?
How Does Language Shape Our Ways of Thinking?
How Do Systems of Power Intersect with Language and Communication?
What Are the Effects of Globalization on Language?
How Is the Digital Age Changing the Way People Communicate?
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Part 2: Unmasking the Structures of Power
Chapter 5: Race and Racism
Do Biologically Separate Races Exist?
How Is Race Constructed around the World?
How Is Race Constructed in the United States?
What Is Racism?
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Chapter 6: Ethnicity and Nationalism
What Does “Ethnicity” Mean to Anthropologists?
How and Why Is Ethnicity Created, Mobilized, and Contested?
What Is the Relationship of Ethnicity to the Nation?
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Chapter 7: Gender
Are Men and Women Born or Made?
Are There More Than Two Sexes?
What Is the Relationship between Gender and Power?
How Is Globalization Transforming Gender Roles and Stratification?
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Chapter 8: Sexuality
What Is Sexuality and Where Does It Come From?
What Is the Scope of Human Sexuality When Seen in a Global Perspective?
How Has Sexuality Been Constructed in the United States?
How Is Sexuality an Arena for Working Out Relations of Power?
How Does Globalization Influence Local Expressions of Sexuality?
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Chapter 9: Kinship, Family, and Marriage
How Are We Related to One Another?
Are Biology and Marriage the Only Basis for Kinship?
How Are Ideas of Kinship Linked to the Nation-State?
How Is Kinship Changing in the Modern World?
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Chapter 10: Class and Inequality
Is Inequality a Natural Part of Human Culture?
How Do Anthropologists Analyze Class and Inequality?
How Are Class and Inequality Constructed in the United States?
How Are Class and Inequality Constructed Globally?
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Part 3: Change in the Modern World
Chapter 11: The Global Economy
What Is an Economy, and What Is Its Purpose?
What Are the Roots of Today’s Global Economy?
What Role Has Colonialism Played in Forming Today’s Global Economy?
What Is the Relationship between the Nation-State and the Corporation in the Global Economy?
What Are the Dominant Organizing Principles of the Global Economy Today?
How Does Today’s Global Economy Link Workers with Consumers Worldwide?
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Chapter 12: Environment and Sustainability
What Is the Anthropocene?
How Does a Multispecies Perspective Change Our Worldview and Our Future?
How Does the Environment Intersect with Other Systems of Power to Create Uneven Vulnerability to Climate Change?
How Is the Environment Shaped by Globalization?
Is Today’s Global Economic System Sustainable?
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Chapter 13: Migration
Why Do People Move from Place to Place?
Who Are Today’s Migrants?
Where Do People Move To and From?
How Is Immigration Affecting the United States Today?
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Chapter 14: Politics and Power
How Have Anthropologists Viewed the Origins of Human Political History?
What Is the State?
How Is Globalization Affecting the State?
What Is the Relationship among Politics, the State, Violence, and War?
How Do People Mobilize Power outside the State’s Control?
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Chapter 15: Religion
What Is Religion?
What Tools Do Anthropologists Use to Understand How Religion Works?
In What Ways Is Religion Both a System of Meaning and a System of Power?
How Is Globalization Changing Religion?
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Chapter 16: Health, Illness, and the Body
How Does Culture Shape Health and Illness?
How Do Different Cultural Conceptions of the Body Affect Health Practices?
How Can Anthropologists Help Solve Health-Care Problems?
Why Does the Distribution of Health and Illness Mirror That of Wealth and Power?
How Is Globalization Changing the Experience of Health and Illness and the Practice of Medicine?
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Chapter 17: Art and Media
What Is Art?
What Is Unique about How Anthropologists Study Art?
What Is the Relationship between Art and Power?
How Do Art and Media Intersect?
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References
Credits
Glossary/Index