Robert H. Lavenda and Emily A. Schultz
The only brief cultural anthropology text specifically designed to prepare students to read ethnographies more effectively and with greater understanding, this is a concise introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology.
Preface
1. Anthropology
2. Culture
3. Meaning-Making and Language
4. World View and Religion
5. The Dimensions of Social Organization
6. Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
7. Relatedness: Kinship, Marriage, Family, and Friendship
8. Political Anthropology
9. Economic
Anthropology
10. Globalization
11. The Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine
12. Theory in Cultural Anthropology
Appendix: Reading Ethnography
Bibliography
Index
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Robert H. Lavenda is Professor of Anthropology and Co-Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. Cloud State University.
Emily A. Schultz is Professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University.
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