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Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World Barbara D. Miller

Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World By Barbara D. Miller

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Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World by Barbara D. Miller

Integrating current material on globalization, gender, class, race, ethnicity, and other contemporary social issues throughout the book, Barbara Miller's Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World text engages students with compelling ethnographic examples and demonstrates the relevance of cultural anthropology to their lives.

  • Rich examples of gender, ethnicity, race, class, and age thread through the topical coverage of economic systems, the life-cycle, health, kinship, social organization, politics, language, religion, and expressive culture.
  • Each chapter highlights applied anthropology and provides students with practical tips about how they can use anthropology in their everyday lives.
  • The last two chapters address the urgent issues of how migration is changing world cultures and the importance of local cultural values in shaping international development policies and programs.

This book, based on Miller's full-length Cultural Anthropology text, will generate class discussion, increase faculty-student engagement, and enhance student learning. Through clear writing, a balanced theoretical approach, and engaging examples, Miller stresses the importance of social inequality, cultural change, and applied aspects of anthropology throughout the book.

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction to Cultural Anthropology


Chapter 1 Anthropology and the Study of Culture

Introducing Anthropology

Biological or Physical Anthropology

Archaeology

Linguistic Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Lessons Applied: Orangutan Research Leads to Orangutan Advocacy

Applied Anthropology: Separate Field or Cross-Cutting Focus?

Introducing Cultural Anthropology

A Brief History of Cultural Anthropology

The Concept of Culture

Multiple Cultural Worlds

Culturama: San Peoples of Southern Africa

Distinctive Features of Cultural Anthropology

Three Theoretical Debates in Cultural Anthropology

Critical Thinking: Adolescent Stress: Biologically Determines or Culturally Constructed?

Cultural Anthropology and Careers in the Real World:

Majoring in Anthropology

Graduate Study in Anthropology

Living an Anthropological Life

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Chapter 2 Methods in Cultural Anthropology

Changing Research Methods

From the Armchair to the Field

Participant Observation

Doing Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology

Beginning the Fieldwork Process

Working in the Field

Critical Thinking: Shells and Skirts in the Trobriand Islands

Culturama: The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea

Fieldwork Techniques

Recording Culture

Lessons Applied: Multiple Methods in a Needs Assessment Study in Canada

Data Analysis

Urgent Issues in Cultural Anthropology Research

Ethics and Collaborative Research

Safety in the Field

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Part II Economic and Demographic Foundations


Chapter 3 Economic Systems

Modes of Production

Foraging

Division of Labor

Property Relations

Foraging as a Sustainable System

Horticulture

Division of Labor

Property Relations

Horticulture as a Sustainable System

Pastoralism

Division of Labor

Property Relations

Pastoralism as a Sustainable System

Agriculture

Family Farming

Division of Labor

Property Relations

Industrial Agriculture

The Sustainability of Agriculture

Industrialism and the Information Age

Critical Thinking: Was the Invention of Agriculture a Terrible Mistake?

Modes of Consumption and Exchange

Modes of Consumption

Consumption Microcultures

Class and the Game of Distinction in Israeli Birthday Parties

Gender and Deadly Food in Papua New Guinea

Race and Children's Shopping in New Haven

Modes of Exchange

Balanced Exchange

Unbalanced Exchange

Other Forms of Unbalanced Exchange

Gambling

Theft

Exploitation

Lessons Applied: Evaluating Indian Gaming in California

Globalization and Changing Economies

Sugar, Salt, and Steel Tools in the Amazon

Social Inequality in Russia and Eastern Europe

Global Networks and Ecstasy in the United States

Credit Card Debt

Continuities and Resistance: The Enduring Potlatch

Culturama: The Kwakwaka'wakw of Canada

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Chapter 4 Reproduction and Human Development

Modes of Reproduction

The Foraging Mode of Reproduction

The Agricultural Mode of Reproduction

Culturama: The Old Order Amish of the United States and Canada

The Industrial/Informatics Mode of Reproduction

Culture and Fertility

Sexual Intercourse

When to Begin Having Intercourse?

Intercourse Frequency and Fertility

Fertility Decision Making
At the Family Level

At the State Level

At the Global Level

Fertility Control

Indigenous Methods

Induced Abortion

The New Reproductive Technologies

Infanticide

Personality and The Life Cycle

Birth, Infancy, and Childhood

The Birth Context

Bonding

Lessons Applied: Mediating Cultural Conflict about the Treatment of a Newborn Baby in a U.S. Hospital Nursery

Gender in Infancy

Socialization during Childhood

Adolescence and Identity

Is Adolescence a Universal Life-Cycle Stage?

Coming of Age and Gender Identity

Critical Thinking: Cultural Relativism and Female Genital Cutting

Sexual Identity and Gender Pluralism

Adulthood

Becoming a Parent

Middle Age

The Senior Years

The Final Passage: Death and Dying

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Chapter 5 Disease, Illness, and Healing

Ethnomedicine

Defining and Classifying Health Problems

Ethno-etiologies

Healing Ways

Three Theoretical Approaches in Medical Anthropology

The Ecological/Epidemiological Approach

Critical Thinking: Why Do People Eat Dirt?

The Interpretivist Approach

Critical Medical Anthropology

Globalization and Change

New Infectious Diseases

Diseases of Development

Medical Pluralism

Culturama: The Sherpa of Nepal

Applied Medical Anthropology

Lessons Applied: Promoting Vaccination Programs in Developing Countries

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Part III Social Organization


Chapter 6 Kinship and Domestic Life

The Study of Kinship Systems

Formal Kinship Analysis

Kinship in Action

Critical Thinking: How Bilineal is American Kinship?

Culturama: The Minangkabau of Indonesia

Households and Domestic Life

The Household: Variations on a Theme

Intrahousehold Dynamics

Lessons Applied: Ethnography for Preventing Wife Abuse in Rural Kentucky

Changing Kinship and Household Dynamics

Change in Descent

Change in Marriage

Changing Households

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Chapter 7 Social Groups and Social Stratification

Social Groups

Friendship

Clubs and Fraternities

Countercultural Groups

Work Groups

Cooperatives

Self-Help Groups

Social Stratification

The Concept of Status Groups

Class: Achieved Status

Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Caste: Ascribed Status

Critical Thinking: What's Missing from This Picture?

Culturama: The Roma of Eastern Europe

Civil Society

Civil Society for the State: The Chinese Women's Movement

Activist Groups: Co-Madres

Lessons Applied: Anthropology and Community Activism in Papua New Guinea

New Social Movements and Cyberpower

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Chapter 8 Political and Legal Systems

Politics, Political Organization, and Leadership

Bands

Tribes

Big-Man and Big-Woman Leadership

Chiefdoms

States

Symbols of State Power

Lessons Applied: Cultural Knowledge for Engaged Citizenship

Social Order and Social Conflict

Norms and Laws

Systems of Social Control

Social Control in Small-Scale Societies

Social Control in States

Specialization

Trials and Courts

Prisons and the Death Penalty

Social Inequality and the Law

Social Conflict and Violence

Ethnic Conflict

Warfare

Critical Thinking: Yanomami: The Fierce People?

Change in Political and Legal Systems

Emerging Nations and Transnational Nations

Culturama: The Kurds of the Middle East

Democratization

Women in Politics: New Directions?

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Part IV Symbolic Systems


Chapter 9 Communication

The Varieties of Human Communication

Language and Verbal Communication

Nonverbal Language and Embodied Communication

Lessons Applied: Anthropology and Public Understanding of the Language and Culture of People Who Are Deaf

Communicating with Media and Information Technology

Communication, Cultural Diversity, and Inequality

Fieldwork Challenges

Language and Culture: Two Theories

Critical Discourse Analysis: Class, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, and Age

Language Change

The Origins and History of Language

Historical Linguistics

Writing Systems

Colonialism, Nationalism, and Globalization

Culturama: The Saami of Lapland, or Sapmi

Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization

Critical Thinking: Should Dead and Dying Languages Be Revived?

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Chapter 10 Religion

Religion in Comparative Perspective

What is Religion?

Varieties of Religious Beliefs

Ritual Practices

Lessons Applied: Aboriginal Women's Culture, Sacred Site Protection, and the Anthropologist as Expert Witness

Religious Specialists

Critical Thinking: Why Did the Aztecs Practice Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism?

World Religions and Local Variations

Hinduism

Buddhism

Judaism

Christianity

Islam

Culturama: Hui Muslims of Xi'an, China

African Religions

Directions of Religious Change

Revitalization Movements

Contested Sacred Sites

Religious Freedom as a Human Right

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Chapter 11 Expressive Culture

Art and Culture

What is Art?

Critical Thinking: Probing the Categories of Art

Studying Art in Society

Performance Arts

Architecture and Decorative Arts

Play, Leisure, and Culture

Games and Sports as a Cultural Microcosm

Leisure Travel

Change in Expressive Culture

Colonialism and Syncretism

Culturama: The Gullah of South Carolina

Tourism's Complex Effects

Lessons Applied: A Strategy for the World Bank on Cultural Heritage

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Part V Contemporary Cultural Change


Chapter 12 People on the Move

Categories of Migration

Categories Based on Spatial Boundaries

Critical Thinking: Haitian Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic: A Case of Structure or Human Agency?

Categories Based on Reason for Moving

Culturama: The Maya of Guatemala

The New Immigrants To The United States and Canada

The New Immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean

The New Immigrants from Asia

The New Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union

Lessons Applied: Studying Pastoralists' Movements for Risk Assessment and Service Delivery

Migration Politics, Policies, and Programs in a Globalizing World

Protecting Migrants' Health

Inclusion and Exclusion

Migration and Human Rights

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings


Chapter 13 People Defining Development

Defining Development and Approaches To It

Two Processes of Cultural Change

Critical Thinking: The Green Revolution and Social Inequality

Theories and Models of Development

Lessons Applied: The Saami, Snowmobiles, and the Need for Social Impact Analysis

Institutional Approaches to Development

Culturama: The Peyizan yo of Haiti

The Development Project

Development and Minority Groups: Indigenous People and Women

Indigenous People and Development

Women and Development

Urgent Issues in Development

From Development Projects to Life Projects

Human Rights: Global and Local

Human Rights and Development

Cultural Heritage and Development: Linking the Past and Present to the Future

Cultural Anthropology and the Future

The Big Questions Revisited

Key Concepts

Suggested Readings

Additional information

CIN020554066XG
9780205540662
020554066X
Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World by Barbara D. Miller
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Pearson Education (US)
20071206
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