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Cultural Anthropology (Study Edition), 2/E
Barbara D. Miller, The George Washington University

ISBN-10: 0205401384
ISBN-13: 9780205401383

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 512 pp
Published: 07/10/2003
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Containing the same engaging and effective features that have made Cultural Anthropology such a success, the Study Edition offers an additional bonus: perforated chapter quizzes at no extra cost to students. Because the answers to the practice tests are not included in the Study Edition, instructors can use the tests as quizzes or as extra homework. If instructors prefer to give students the option of checking their own results, they can package the Study Edition with our Practice Test Solutions Manual for FREE. Also included FREE with this option is our Tutor Center Access Card to provide students with extra study support from our qualified Tutor Center professionals by phone, fax, email, and the Internet. With either ordering option, students get a valuable and effective study system not found in other books!

Emphasizing social inequality, this contemporary introductory textbook explains how inequalities affect economy, kinship, politics, religion, and language while still covering the core concepts of cultural anthropology. Miller's innovative approach combines a solid materialist foundation with attention to interpretive approaches and findings.

Special Features of the Study Edition

Chapter Quizzes at the end of the book—30 multiple choice questions per chapter—give students the chance to gauge their knowledge about the material in the text and to prepare for exams. These quiz questions are a fresh source of study and testing material.

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Special Features of the Text

Emphasizes the themes of social inequality, diversity, and critical thinking.

Integrates coverage of contemporary issues such as health systems, migration, and development, and their relevance to cultural anthropological studies. An applied anthropologist, Miller has integrated practical uses of anthropology throughout the book.

“The Big Questions,” located at the beginning of each chapter, identifies the three “key questions” students should keep in mind as they read the chapter. Each chapter concludes with “The Big Questions Revisited,” a section that reviews concepts and provides answers to “The Big Questions” in a summary format. This feature makes key concepts clearer and more accessible to students.

Boxed features show the interconnection of anthropology to other disciplines and to career opportunities.

“Voices” boxes feature excerpts from writings by indigenous peoples and minorities.

“Unity and Diversity” boxes present cultural examples from the perspectives of both difference and similarity. While most writings of cultural anthropologists document variation and diversity, it is important to remember that humans everywhere share certain features of life in common.

“Cultures in Motion” boxes are used to present material that shows what happens when two or more cultures come into contact. These boxes also integrate material from the migration chapter of the first edition.

I. INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

1. Anthropology and the Study of Culture.

The Fields of General Anthropology.

Cultural Anthropology's Distinctive Features.

The Concept of Culture.

Multiple Cultural Worlds.

Anthropology: A Dynamic Discipline for a Changing World.

2. Methods in Cultural Anthropology.

The History of Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology.

Beginning the Fieldwork Process.

Working in the Field.

Fieldwork Techniques.

Recording Culture.

Data Analysis.

Ethics and Responsibility in Cultural Anthropology.

Danger in the Field.

New Directions: Toward Participatory Fieldwork.

II. ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC FOUNDATIONS.

3. Economies and Their Modes of Production.

Cultural Anthropology and Economic Systems.

Foraging.

Horticulture.

Pastoralism.

Agriculture.

Industrial and Post-Industrial Economies.

4. Consumption and Exchange.

Culture and Consumption.

Consumption Inequalities.

Consumption Microcultures.

Culture and Household Budgeting.

Forbidden Consumption: Food Taboos.

Culture and Exchange.

Theories of Exchange.

Changing Patterns of Consumption and Exchange.

5. Birth and Death.

Culture and Reproduction.

Sexual Intercourse and Fertility.

Culture and Death.

6. Personality and Human Development.

Culture and Personality.

Personality Information During Infancy.

Socialization During Childhood.

Adolescence and Identity.

How Does Personality Change in Adulthood?

7. Illness and Healing.

Nature, Culture, and the Distribution of Illness.

Ethnomedicine.

The Ideationist Approach.

Critical Medical Anthropology.

Clinical Medical Anthropology.

Globalization and Change.

III. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION.

8. Kinship Dynamics.

The Study of Kinship.

Descent.

Sharing.

Marriage.

9. Domestic Groups.

The Household: Variations on a Theme.

Households as Economic Units.

Households as Social Units: Intrahousehold Dynamics.

Household Transformations.

Social Change and Household Life.

10. Social Groups and Social Stratification.

Social Groups.

Social Stratification.

Civil Society: Between Groups and Government.

11. Politics and Leadership.

Politics and Culture.

Political Organization and Leadership.

Change in Political Systems.

12. Social Order and Social Conflict.

Culture, Order, and Conflict.

Systems of Social Control.

Social Conflict and Violence.

Maintaining World Order.

IV. SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS.

13. Communication.

Introducing Linguistic Anthropology.

Human Verbal Language.

Language, Thought, and Society.

Human Paralanguage.

Mass Media.

Language and Social Change.

14. Religion.

What Is Religion?

Varieties of Religious Beliefs.

Beliefs in Action: Ritual Practices.

Religious Specialists.

World Religions.

African Religions.

Directions of Change.

15. Expressive Culture.

Art and Culture.

Play, Leisure, and Culture.

Change in Expressive Culture.

V. CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL CHANGE.

16. Development Anthropology.

Anthropology and the Study of Change.

Approaches to Development.

Issues and Development.

Chapter Quizzes.

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Barbara Miller, The George Washington University
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Chapter Quizzes at the end of the book—30 multiple choice questions per chapter—give students the chance to gauge their knowledge about the material in the text and to prepare for exams.
Ready-made midterm and final exams are written in the same style as the quizzes, offering a complete testing system for the course.
Free when packaged with the text, an optional chapter quiz solutions manual allows students the opportunity for self-testing.

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