Robert H. Lavenda, Emily A. Schultz and Michel E. Bouchard
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1 - Anthropology
1.1 An Anthropological Perspective
1.2 The Subfields of Anthropology
1.3 Is Anthropology a Science? Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond
1.4 Reflexive Anthropology and the Ontological Turn
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Chapter 2 - Theory in Cultural Anthropology
2.1 Anthropology as Science
2.2 Nineteenth-Century Approaches
2.3 Early Twentieth-Century Approaches
2.4 Mid-Twentieth-Century Approaches
2.5 New Directions in
the Twenty-First Century
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Chapter 3 - Culture
3.1 Culture Against Racism: The Early Twentieth Century
3.2 Social Darwinism and Canada
3.3 The Evolution of Culture
3.4 Culture and Symbolism
3.5 Ethnocentrism and Cultural
Relativism
3.6 The Boundaries of Culture?
3.7 The Concept of Culture in a Global World: Problems and Practices
3.8 Culture: Contemporary Discussion and Debate
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Chapter 4 - Meaning-Making and
Language
4.1 Making Meaning
4.2 Studying Language: A Historical Sketch
4.3 The Building Blocks of Language
4.4 Language and Culture
4.5 Language and Society
4.6 Discourse
4.7 Language Contact and Change
4.8 Meaning-Making and Art
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Chapter 5 - Worldview and Religion
5.1 Religion
5.2 Myth
5.3 Ritual
5.4 Magic and Witchcraft
5.5 Religious Practitioners
5.6 Change in Religious Systems
5.7 Secularism, Fundamentalism, and New Religious Movements
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Chapter 6 - The Dimensions of Social Organization
6.1 What is Social Organization?
6.2 Dimensions of Social Organization
6.3 Caste and Class
6.4 Race
6.5 Ethnicity
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Chapter 7 - Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
7.1 Sex, Gender, And Feminism in the Twentieth Century
7.2 Sex, Gender, Race, and Class
7.3 Gender Performativity
7.4 Theoretical Diversity in Studies of Sex and Gender
7.5 Sex, Gender, and the
Body
7.6 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
7.7 Sex, Gender, And Sexuality in Ethnographic Context
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Chapter 8 - Relatedness: Kinship, Marriage, Family, and Friendship
8.1 Kinship Versus Biology
8.2
Descent
8.3 Bilateral Descent
8.4 Unilineal Descent
8.5 Kinship Terminologies
8.6 What is Marriage?
8.7 Whom to Marry and Where to Live
8.8 How Many Spouses?
8.9 Marriage as Alliance
8.10 Family
8.11 Divorce
8.12 Friendship
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Chapter 9 - Political Anthropology
9.1 Power
9.2 Political Ecology and Political Economy
9.3 Disputes and Dispute Resolution
9.4 Forms of Political Organization
9.5 Social Stratification
9.6 Forms of Political
Activity
9.7 Social Control and Law
9.8 Nationalism and Hegemony
9.9 Nation and Nationalism in Canada
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Chapter 10 - Economic Anthropology
10.1 The "Arts of Subsistence"
10.2 Subsistence Strategies
10.3 Explaining the Material
Life Processes of Society
10.4 Modes of Exchange
10.5 Production, Distribution, and Consumption
10.6 Mode of Production
10.7 Peasants
10.8 Consumption
10.9 The Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
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Chapter 11 -
Globalization
11.1 The Cultural Legacy of Colonialism
11.2 Analyzing Sociocultural Change in the Post-Colonial World
11.3 Globalization
11.4 The Cultural Effects of Contact
11.5 Globalization, Citizenship and Human Rights
11.6 New Global Institutions
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Chapter 12 - The Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine
12.1 Anthropology, Science, and Tech
12.2 The Anthropology of Medicine
12.3 Human Health in Evolutionary Context
12.4 Human Health and Nutrition
12.5 Health and Human
Reproduction
12.6 Sickness and Health in the Global Capitalist Economy
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Appendix: Reading Ethnography
The Parts of an Ethnography
The Use of Indigenous and Local Terms
The Photographs
Why Are You Reading This Ethnography (and How
Should You Read It)?
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Index
Robert H. Lavenda is an emeritus professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University.
Emily A. Schultz is a professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University.
Michel Bouchard is a professor and former chair in the Anthropology department at the University of
Northern British Columbia. His current research focuses on the history of North American Métis and French-Canadian communities in Ontario, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories. This project builds on his past research, which examined issues of nationhood among Russian-speakers in Estonia
as well as that of the Komi and other ethnonational populations in Russia. He teaches a wide range of cultural anthropology courses, including the introductory course, and organizes an annual Circumpolar Ethnographic Field School.
Cultural Anthropology - Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda, Roberta Robin Dods and Mary-Lee Mulholland
Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood - Hem Borker
Representing Russia's Orient - Adalyat Issiyeva
Indebted - Kathryn A. Kozaitis
Burning at Europe's Borders - Isabella Alexander-Nathani
Labor and Legality - Ruth Gomberg-Munoz
Marriage After Migration - Nora Haenn
Serious Youth in Sierra Leone - Catherine Bolten
Low Wage in High Tech - Kiran Mirchandani, Sanjukta Mukherjee and Shruti Tambe
Waste and Wealth - Minh T. N. Nguyen
Haunted - Sylvia J. Martin
The Native World-System - Nico Tassi
City of Flowers - Susan E. Mannon
Sacred Rice - Joanna Davidson
Gangsters Without Borders - T.W. Ward
Listen, Here is a Story - Bonnie L. Hewlett
Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha - L. Kaifa Roland
Labor and Legality - Ruth Gomberg-Munoz
