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Culture Counts:

A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
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Cengage Learning, 2008 - 374 pagina's
Framed around the concept of culture, Nanda and Warms' brief book shows you how culture matters in driving and explaining human behavior, and that culture is a dynamic concept that interrelates various cultural systems in adaptive (or maladaptive) ways. The text focuses on how culture?a group of understandings, some explicit, some implicit, with recognizable norms and values?helps direct and explain peoples' behavior, why this is important for understanding what is going on in the world today, and how we can solve problems and effect positive change. The authors will draw you into the book's concepts via engaging ethnographic storytelling and a conversational writing style that connects you to the topics. You'll focus on contemporary issues, issues of globalization, issues of gender, and issues of equalities and inequalities?topics that are important to both the study of anthropology and your understanding of the world around you.
  

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Inhoudsopgave

WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?
1
CULTURE COUNTS
21
DOING CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
43
COMMUNICATION
69
MAKING A LIVING
93
ECONOMICS
115
MARRIAGE FAMILY AND KINSHIP
141
SEX AND GENDER
169
INEQUALITIES RACE AND ETHNICITY
239
RELIGION
263
POWER CONQUEST AND A WORLD SYSTEM
287
GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGE
311
GLOSSARY
337
REFERENCES
345
PHOTO CREDITS
363
INDEX
364

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
193
INEQUALITIES CLASS AND CASTE
217

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Over de auteur (2008)

Serena Nanda is professor emeritus of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Her published works include "Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India", winner of the 1990 Ruth Benedict Prize; "American Cultural Pluralism and Law"; and "Gender Diversity: Cross-Cultural Variations.

Richard Warms is associate professor of Anthropology at Southwest Texas State University. His published works include "Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History", as well as journal articles on commerce, religion, and ethnic identity in West Africa, African exploration and romanticism, and African veterans of French colonial armed forces.

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