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"Cultural Anthropology integrates critical thinking, explores rich ethnographies, and prompts students to think creatively about today's culture and society. Authors Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms show how historical studies and anthropological techniques can help readers reflect on the nature, structure, and meaning of human societies. Updates to the Thirteenth Edition include a new chapter on race and ethnicity; emphasis on areas such as inequality, power, gender, race, and history; discussions of issues around medical care and public health; and new features that reflect changes in world culture." --

Introducing anthropology -- Culture counts -- Doing cultural anthropology -- Communication -- Making a living -- Economics -- Political organization -- Social stratification: class and caste -- Race and ethnicity -- Marriage, family and kinship -- Gender -- Religion -- Creative expression: anthropology and the arts -- Making the modern world: globalization from the fifteenth to the twentieth century -- Anthropology in the twenty-first century: understanding and acting in a challenging world.

Part 1. Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory. Nineteenth-century evolutionism: Herbert Spencer, The social organism (1860) ; Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, The science of culture (1871) ; Lewis Henry Morgan, Ethnical periods (1877) ; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach : opposition of the materialist and idealist outlook (1846) -- The foundations of sociological thought: Émile Durkheim, What is a social fact? (1895) ; Marcel Mauss, Extracts from The gift (1925) ; Max Weber, Class, status, party (1922) -- Part 2. Culture Theory in the Early Twentieth Century. The Boasians: Franz Boas, The methods of ethnology (1920) ; A.L. Kroeber, On the principle of order in civilization as exemplified by changes of fashion (1919) ; Ruth Benedict, The science of custom : the bearing of anthropology on contemporary thought (1929) ; Margaret Mead, Introduction to coming of age in Samoa (1928) ; Zora Neale Hurston, Of mules and men, chapter IV (1935) ; Benjamin L. Whorf, The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language (1941) -- Functionalism: Bronislaw Malinowski, The essentials of the Kula (1922) ; A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, On joking relationships (1940) -- Part 3. Theory at Mid-century: The reemergence of evolutionary thought: Leslie White, Energy and the evolution of culture (1943) ; Julian Steward, The patrilineal band (1955) -- Neomaterialism: Marvin Harris, The cultural ecology of India's sacred cattle (1966) ; Roy A. Rappaport, Ritual regulation of environmental relations among a New Guinea people (1967) -- Structure, language, and cognition: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Four Winnebago myths : a structural sketch (1960) ; James Spradley, A bucket full of tramps (1970) -- Part 4. Late-Twentieth-Century Developments: Sociobiology and behavioral ecology: Edward O. Wilson, The morality of the gene (1975) ; Rebecca Bliege Bird, Eric Alden Smith, and Douglas W. Bird, The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies (2001) -- Feminist anthropology: Sally Slocum, Woman the gatherer : male bias in anthropology (1975) ; Eleanor Leacock, Interpreting the origins of gender inequality : conceptual and historical problems (1983) -- Symbolic and interpretive anthropology: Mary Douglas, External boundaries (1966) ; Victor Turner, Symbols in Ndembu ritual (1967) ; Clifford Geertz, Deep play : notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1972) -- French social thought: postmodernism and practice: Pierre Bourdieu, Structures, habitus, practices (1980) ; Michel Foucault, The incitement to discourse (1976) -- Post modernism: Renato Rosaldo, Grief and a headhunter's rage (1989) ; Allan Hanson, The making of the Maori : culture invention and its logic (1989) -- Globalization: Eric R. Wolf, Facing power-old insights, new questions (1990) ; Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy (1990) ; Theodore C. Bestor, Kaiten-zushi and Konbini: Japanese food culture in the age of mechanical reproduction (2006) -- Part 5. Trends in Contemporary Anthropology. Gender: Lila Abu-Lughod, A tale of two pregnancies (1995) ; Tom Boellstorff, The emergence of political homophobia in Indonesia: masculinity and national belonging (2004) ; Lynn Kwiatkowski, Feminist anthropology: approaching domestic violence in northern Việt Nam (2016) -- Agency and Structure: Philippe Bourgois, From Jíbaro to crack dealer : confronting the restructuring of capitalism in el barrio (1995) ; Sherry Ortner, Power and projects : reflections on agency (2006) ; Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Willing to work : agency and vulnerability in an undocumented immigrant network (2010) -- The Anthropology of the Good: Veena Das, Engaging the life of the other : love and everyday life (2010) ; Cheryl Mattingly, Luck, friendship, and the narrative self (2014).

Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology have deep connections to the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded greatly. 'Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: an Encyclopedia' provides quick overviews of theories and theorists with just the basics - the 'who, what, where, how, and why'

Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions between these two kinds of social relationships, the book suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship