Description
A leading name in anthropology, Conrad Philip Kottak continues to define student learning in the cultural anthropology course. Cultural Anthropology offers an up-to-date holistic introduction to general anthropology from the four-field perspective. Key themes of appreciating the experiences students bring to the classroom, appreciating human diversity, and appreciating the field of anthropology are showcased throughout the text.
Focusing on an increasingly interconnected, and technological, world, the new Integrated Coverage of the Impact of Technology and Social Media pays systematic attention to the key role of the Internet and social media in today’s globalizing world through new sections like “Resistance via Social Media” when discussing political systems.
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New Features
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New sections :
"Online Ethnography”
"Public and Applied Anthropology"
“Language, Culture, and History”
“Minority Groups and Stratification”
“Changing Demographics”
“Resistance via Social Media”
“Religion and Cultural Globalization”
“ Evangelical Protestantism and Pentecostalism”
“ Homogenization, Indigenization, or Hybridization”
“ Antimodernism and Fundamentalism”
“ The Spread of Islam”
“ Networking and Sociability On- and Offline”
“ The Fall from Grace: Golf and the Celebrity Scandal”
“ Neoliberalism and NAFTA’s Economic Refugees”
“ Emerging Diseases”
“ Anthropology’s Key Lessons”
New Integrated Coverage of the Impact of Technology and Social Media : Systematic attention is given to the key role of the Internet and social media in today’s globalizing world with new sections like “Resistance via Social Media” when discussing political systems.
Key Features
Revised Focus on Globalization: Focusing on an increasingly interconnected world, the Focus on Globalization essays examine topics as diverse as the global gender gap, the political role of new media, world events (including the Olympics and the World Cup), and the expansion of international finance and branding.
Appreciating Anthropology Boxes : feature current-events stories that explore ways in which anthropologists are actively engaged in some of our most urgent twenty-first century concerns. From Afghanistan: What the Anthropologists Say, to A Biocultural Approach to Health in the Bolivian Amazon" these boxes demonstrate that topics raised in every chapter can be found in today's headlines.
'Appreciating Diversity' Boxes : explore the rich diversity of cultures – past and present – that anthropologists study. Political mobilizations in rural Thailand and “Hinduism Takes Back Yoga,” about the desire to raise awareness to yoga’s debt to the faith’s ancient traditions, are just a few of the topics explored in these sections.
Table of Contents Part I Introduction to Anthropology
1 What Is Anthropology?
2 Culture
3 Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology
Part II Appreciating Cultural Diversity
4 Applying Anthropology
5 Language and Communication
6 Ethnicity and Race
7 Making a Living
8 Political Systems
9 Gender
10 Families, Kinship, and Descent
11 Marriage
12 Religion
13 Arts, Media, and Sports
Part III The Changing World
14 The World System and Colonialism
15 Anthropology’s Role in a Globalizing World
Glossary
Bibliography
Credits
Index