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Cultural Anthropology: Adaptations, Structures, Meanings 1/e
David W. Haines
Published December 2004 by Prentice Hall
Copyright 2005, 272 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-13-191576-2
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Summary

This short book is designed to expose readers directly to the cultural detail and personal experiences that lie in the anthropological record itself, and to extend their anthropological understanding to contemporary issues. KEY TOPICS: This book focuses on ecological adaptations, structural arrangements, and interpretive meanings. MARKET: For professionals that rely on human interaction and understanding in everyday assignments.
Features

  • An inclusive view of anthropology—focuses on ecological adaptations, structural arrangements, and interpretive meanings.

    • Provides a chance to understand different anthropological perspectives and emphases in an open framework that covers the basics.

  • A presentation format—Emphasizing a few central concepts at the beginning of each chapter, followed by more detailed inventory of ideas and terms, and concluding with two case studies spanning the traditional and the contemporary.

    • Presents a steady framework that begins with a common sense base, then adds in more complexity and unpredictability, and concludes with extended examples after students understand the basic concepts.

  • Stylistic presentation—Chapters are short and focused, and writing is direct and personal, while being neither overly academic nor overly informal.

    • Offers a succinct, flexible, and absorbable framework that can stand on its own or be merged into the professor's own lectures or discussions.



Table of Contents



Preface.


 1. Anthropological Basics.

I. ADAPTATIONS.

 2. Introduction to Part I.

 3. Foragers.

 4. Horticulturalists.

 5. Agriculture.

 6. Pastoralism.

 7. Industrialism.

II. STRUCTURES.

 8. Introduction to Part II.

 9. Kinship: Terminology and Households.

10. Kinship: Descent and Marriage.

11. Economics.

12. Politics.

13. Religion.

III. MEANINGS.

14. Introduction to Part III.

15. Cognition.

16. Language.

17. Bodies, Places, Objects, and Events.

18. Action.

Glossary.

Index.



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