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The new edition of Kottak’s best selling text for cultural anthropology emphasizes anthropology's integrated and comparative nature with "Bringing It All Together" essays that show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive feature, "Understanding Ourselves," illustrates the relevance of anthropological facts and theories to students' everyday lives. In addition, every new copy of the eleventh edition is packaged free with a new student CD-ROM...
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Overview

The new edition of Kottak’s best selling text for cultural anthropology emphasizes anthropology's integrated and comparative nature with "Bringing It All Together" essays that show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive feature, "Understanding Ourselves," illustrates the relevance of anthropological facts and theories to students' everyday lives. In addition, every new copy of the eleventh edition is packaged free with a new student CD-ROM as well as PowerWeb!
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780073138756
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Publication date: 6/3/2005
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Edition number: 11
  • Pages: 576
  • Product dimensions: 8.50 (w) x 10.80 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Conrad Phillip Kottak (A.B. Columbia, 1963; Ph.D. Columbia, 1966) is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1968. In 1991 he was honored for his teaching by the University and the state of Michigan. In 1992 he received an excellence in teaching award from the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts of the University of Michigan. In 1999 the America Anthropological Association awarded Professor Kottak the AAA/Mayfield Award for Excellence in the Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology.

Professor Kottak has done fieldwork in cultural anthropology in Brazil (since 1962), Madagascar (since 1966), and the United States. Conrad Kottak's articles have appeared in academic journals including American Anthropologist, Journal of Anthropological Research, American Ethnologist, Ethnology, Human Organization, and Luso-Brazilian Review. He has also written for more popular journals, including Transaction/SOCIETY, Natural History, Psychology Today, and General Anthropology.

In current research projects, Kottak and his colleagues have investigated the emergence of ecological awareness in Brazil, the social context of deforestation in Madagascar, and popular participation in economic development planning in northeastern Brazil.

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Table of Contents

About the Author

Preface

Walkthrough

Part One: The Dimensions of Anthropology

Chapter 1: What Is Anthropology?

Overview

Human Adaptability

Adaptation, Variation, and Change

General Anthropology

Cultural Forces Shape Human Biology

The Subdisciplines of Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology
Archaeological Anthropology
Biological, or Physical Anthropology
Interesting Issues: Even Anthropologists Get Culture Shock
Beyond the Classroom: The Utility of Hand and Foot Bones for Problems in Biological Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology

Applied Anthropology

Anthropology and Other Academic Fields
Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
Anthropology and Psychology

Science, Explanation, and Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 2: Applying Anthropology

What Is Applied Anthropology?

Academic and Applied Anthropology
Theory and Practice

Anthropology and Education

Urban Anthropology
Urban versus Rural

Medical Anthropology

Beyond the Classroom: New Life, Good Health

Anthropology and Business

Careers and Anthropology
Interesting Issues: Hot Asset in Corporate: Anthropology Degrees

Part Two: Cultural Diversity

Chapter 3: Ethics and Methods in Cultural Anthology

Ethics

Methods---Ethnography

Ethnographic Techniques

Observation and Participant Observation
Conversation, Interviewing, and Interview Schedule
The Genealogical Method
Key Cultural Consultants
Life Histories
Local Beliefs and Perceptions, and the Ethnographer's
The Evolution of Ethnography
Problem-Oriented Ethnography
LongitudinalResearch
Team Research
Culture, Space, and Scale

Survey Research

Beyond the Classroom: Stories from the Women Domestics of the Yucatan

Chapter 4: Culture

What Is Culture?
Culture Is Learned
Culture Is Shared
Interesting Issues: Touching, Affection, Love, and Sex
Culture Is Symbolic
Culture and Nature
Culture Is All-Encompassing
Culture Is Integrated
Culture Can Be Adaptive and Maladaptive

Culture and the Individual: Agency and Practice

Levels of Culture
Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, and Human Rights

Universality, Generality, and Particularity

Universality
Generality
Particularity: Patterns of Culture
Beyond the Classroom: Folklore Reveals Ethos of Heating Plant Workers

Mechanisms of Cultural Change

Globalization

Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Race

Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity
Status Shifting

Race

Social Race
Hypodescent: Race in the United States
Beyond the Classroom: Perceptions of Race and Skin Color on an American College Campus
Race in the Census
Not Us: Race in Japan
Phenotype and Fluidity: Race in Brazil

Stratification and "Intelligence"

Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Nationalities
Nationalities and Imagined Communities

Peaceful Coexistence

Assimilation
The Plural Society
Multiculturalism and Ethnic Identity
Interesting Issues: Ethnic Nationalism Runs Wild

Roots of Ethnic Conflict

Prejudice and Discrimination
Chips in the Mosaic
Aftermaths of Oppression

Chapter 6: Language and Communication

What Is Language?

Animal Communication

Call Systems
Sign Language
The Origin of Language

Nonverbal Communication

The Structure of Language
Speech Sounds

Language, Thought, and Culture

Interesting Issues: Do Midwesterner's Have Accents?
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Focal Vocabulary
Meaning

Sociolinguistics

Linguistic Diversity
Gender Speech Contrasts
Language and Status Position
Stratification
Black English Vernacular (BEV), a.k.a. "Ebonics"
Beyond the Classroom: Cybercommunication in Collegespace

Historical Linguistics

Bringing It All Together: Canada: Unity and Diversity in Culture and Language

Chapter 7: Making a Living

Adaptive Strategies

Foraging

Correlates of Foraging
Beyond the Classroom: Integrating Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Analytic Subsistence Data: A Case Study from Patagonia, South America

Cultivation

Horticulture
Agriculture
The Cultivation Continuum
Intensification: People and the Environment

Pastoralism

Modes of Production
Production in Nonindustrial Societies
Means of Production
Alienation in Industrial Economies

Economizing and Maximization

Alternative Ends
Interesting Issues: Scarcity and the Betsileo

Distribution, Exchange

The Market Principle
Redistribution
Reciprocity
Coexistence of Exchange Principles

Potlatching

Chapter 8: Political Systems

What Is "The Political?"

Types and Trends

Bands and Tribes

Foraging Bands
Tribal Cultivators
The Village Head
The "Big Man"
Pantribal Sodalities and Age Grades
Nomadic Politics
Beyond the Classroom: Perspectives on Group Membership

Chiefdoms

Political and Economic Systems in Chiefdoms
Social Status in Chiefdoms
Status Systems in Chiefdoms and States

States

Population Control
Judiciary
Enforcement
Fiscal Systems

Social Control: Politics, Shame, and Sorcery

Chapter 9: Families, Kinship, and Descent

Families

Nuclear and Extended Families
Industrialism and Family Organization
Changes in North American Kinship
The Family among Foragers

Descent

Descent Groups
Lineages, Clans, and Residence Rules
Ambilineal Descent
Family versus Descent

Kinship Calculation

Genealogical Kin Types and Kin Terms
Interesting Issues: Social Security, Kinship Style

Kinship Terminology

Lineal Terminology
Bifurcate Merging Terminology
Generational Terminology
Bifurcate Collateral Terminology

Chapter 10: Marriage

What Is Marriage?

Incest and Exogamy

Explaining the Taboo
Instinctive Horror
Biological Degeneration
Attempt and Contempt
Marry Out or Die Out

Endogamy

Caste
Royal Incest

Marital Rights and Same-Sex Marriage

Beyond the Classroom: Human Mate Preference in Matrimonial Advertisements from Gujarat, India

Marriage as Group Alliance

Bridewealth and Dowry
Durable Alliances
Interesting Issues: Love and Marriage

Divorce

Plural Marriages
Polygyny
Polyandry

Chapter 11: Gender

Sex and Gender

Recurrent Gender Patterns

Gender among Foragers

Gender among Horticulturist

Reduced Gender Stratification--Matrilineal, Matrilocal Societies
Reduced Gender Stratification--Matrifocal Societies
Increased Gender Stratification--Patrilineal-Patrilocal Societies

Gender among Agriculturalists

Patriarchy and Violence

Gender and Industrialism

The Feminization of Poverty

Sexual Orientation

Interesting Issues: Hidden Women, Public Men---Public Women, Hidden Men

Bringing It All Together: The Basques

Chapter 12: Religion

What Is Religion?

Origins, Functions, and Expressions of Religion
Animism
Mana and Taboo
Magic and Religion
Anxiety, Control, Solace
Rituals
Rites of Passage
Totemism

Religion and Cultural Ecology

Sacred Cattle in India

Social Control

Beyond the Classroom: Ewe Traditional and Biomedical Healing Practices in Ghana's Volta Region

Kinds of Religion

Religion in States
Christian Values

World Religions

Religion and Change
Revitalization Movements
Syncretisms
Antimodernism and Fundamentalism
A New Age

Secular Rituals

Chapter 13: The Arts

What Is Art?

Art and Religion
Locating Art
Art and Individuality
The Work of Art

Art, Society, and Culture

The Cultural Transmission of the Arts
Interesting Issues: I'll Get You, My Pretty, and Your Little R2
The Artistic Career
Beyond the Classroom: Capoeira: The Afro-Brazilian Art of Unity and Survival
Continuity and Change

Part Three: The Changing World

Chapter 14: The Modern World System

The Emergence of the World System

Industrialization
Causes of the Industrial Revolution

Stratification

Industrial Stratification
Asian Factory Women
Open and Closed Class Systems
Beyond the Classroom: The Residue of Apartheid in Southern Africa

The World System Today

Interesting Issues: The American Periphery
Industrial Degradation

Chapter 15: Colonialism and Development

Colonialism
Imperialism
British Colonialism
French Colonialism
Colonialism and Identity
Postcolonial Studies

Development

Neoliberalism

The Second World

Communism
Postsocialist Transitions

Development Anthropology

The Greening of Java
Equity

Strategies for Innovation

Overinnovation
Underdifferentiation
Third World Models

Chapter 16: Cultural Exchange and Survival

Acculturation

Contact and Domination

Development and Environmentalism
Religious Change

Resistance and Survival

Interesting Issues: Voices of the Rainforest
Weapons of the Weak
Beyond the Classroom: Forging Activist Identities in the Kalaupapa Community of Leprosy Patients
Cultural Imperialism

Making and Remaking Culture

Popular Culture
Indigenizing Popular Culture
Interesting Issues: Using Modern Technology to Preserve Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
A World System of Images
A Transnational Culture of Consumption

People in Motion

The Continuance of Diversity

Bringing It All Together: The Biology and Culture of Overconsumption

Appendix 1: A History of Theories in Anthropology

Appendix 2: Ethics and Anthropology

Appendix 3: American Popular Culture

Bibliography

Glossary

Credits

Name Index

Subject Index

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