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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Anthropology -- What Is Anthropology? -- The Major Subfields of Anthropology -- Biological (or Physical) Anthropology -- Evolution -- Anthropological Linguistics -- Archaeology -- Cultural Anthropology -- Many Worlds -- Perspectives on Others -- Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism -- Words Matter -- Cultural Appropriation -- Anthropology as a Science -- Empirical Science -- Objective and Subjective Data -- The Western Scientific Method -- Nonempirical Science -- Why Study Anthropology? -- Chapter Summary -- 2 A Very Short History of cultural Anthropology -- On the Development of Western Scientific Thought -- A Natural Evolution -- The Emergence of Anthropology as a Discipline -- Unilinear Cultural Evolution -- Historical Particularism -- Functional/structuralism -- Diffusionism -- Multilinear Cultural Evolution -- Cultural Ecology -- Cultural Materialism -- Postmodernism -- Chapter Summary -- 3 Culture, Personality, and Worldview -- What Is Culture? -- What Is a Society? -- Functions of a Society -- Personality -- Perception and Cognition -- Elements of Personality -- What Is "Acceptable"? -- Worldview -- Cosmology -- Chapter Summary -- 4 Doing Cultural Anthropology -- Anthropological Methods -- Fieldwork -- Participant Observation -- Preparation for Fieldwork -- Once in the Field -- After Fieldwork -- Differing Viewpoints -- Chapter Summary -- 5 Anthropological Linguistics -- Descriptive Linguistics -- Historical Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics -- Some Other Linguistic Elements -- Writing -- Chapter Summary -- 6 Social Organization -- Kinship -- Families and Households -- Figuring Relatives -- Figuring Descent -- Descent Groups -- The Major Kinship Systems -- Marriage -- The Functions of Marriage.

The discipline of anthropology -- What is culture? -- Language -- Social structure and inequality in race, ethnicity, and class -- Sex, gender, and sexuality -- Economics -- Authority and power -- Kinship and marriage -- Religion and ritual -- Medical anthropology -- Theory in cultural anthropology -- Anthropology in action.

The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is the first instalment of The SAGE Handbook of the Social Sciences series and encompasses major specialities as well as key interdisciplinary themes relevant to the field. Globally, societies are facing major upheaval and change, and the social sciences are fundamental to the analysis of these issues, as well as the development of strategies for addressing them. This handbook provides a rich overview of the discipline and has a future focus whilst using international theories and examples throughout. The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is an essential resource for social scientists globally and contains a rich body of chapters on all major topics relevant to the field, whilst also presenting a possible road map for the future of the field.

'Positivism,' it seems, is a movement that cultural anthropology can do without. But what is positivism, who are these positivists, and what precisely are their sins? Notwithstanding appearances to the contrary, the image of positivism in cultural anthropology is comparatively coherent and the criticism directed at it relatively well founded. What is dubious is the conclusion to which many critics think it leads: that the methods of the natural sciences are inappropriate to the study of human culture and society.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Note to the Instructor (for the Third Edition) -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The Study of Us -- Overview -- Cultural Anthropology and General Anthropology -- The Species Known as 'Us' -- The Four Fields -- Cultural Anthropology -- Ethnography and Participant Observation -- Ethnology -- Ethnohistory -- Enculturation and Cultural Relativism -- Biological Anthropology -- Studying Human Origins and Evolution -- Anthropological Archaeology -- Linguistic Anthropology -- Holism and the Four Fields -- Culture and Change -- Anthropology and Related Disciplines -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Cultural Snapshots -- Chapter 2 What Makes Us Human -- Overview -- Why We're All the Same -- The Capacity for Culture -- Cumulative Culture -- The Capacity for Language -- Animal Communication -- Attributes of Language -- Selected Universals -- Sociality -- Ascribed and Achieved Status -- Transmission of Culture -- Religion and Art -- Rules Governing Behaviour -- The Notion of Taboo -- Ethnocentrism -- Sex, Gender and Age Categories -- Economy and Exchange -- Reciprocity -- Classification of the Environment -- Basic Colour Terms -- Names for Flora and Fauna -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Cultural Snapshots -- Chapter 3 Cultural Variation -- Overview -- Variation in Key Cultural Institutions -- Naming Practices -- Kinds of Names -- Diverse Concepts of Human Relatedness -- Transmission of Culture -- Birth Rites -- Rites of Initiation -- Sodalities -- Rules Governing Behaviour -- Food Taboos -- Contact and Verbal Taboos -- Ethnocentrism -- Race and Racism -- Sex, Gender and Age -- Religion and Art -- Animism and Totemism -- Organising Behaviour and Belief.

"Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology presents an introduction to cultural anthropology designed to engage students who are learning about the anthropological perspective for the first time. The book offers a sustained focus on language, food, and sustainability in an inclusive format that is sensitive to issues of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Integrating personal stories from her own fieldwork, Laura Tubelle de González brings her passion for transformative learning to students in a way that is both timely and thought-provoking. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect recent developments in the field. It includes further discussion of globalization; an expanded focus on Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada; revised discussion of sexuality and gender identities across the globe; a brief introduction to the anthropology of science; and updated box features and additional discussion questions that focus on applying concepts. Beautifully illustrated with over sixty full-color images, including comics and maps, Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology brings concepts to life in a way that resonates with student readers. The second edition is supplemented by a full suite of updated instructor and student resources. For more information, go to lensofculturalanthropology.com."--

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'

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Early History of Evolutionism -- Herbert Spencer and the Concept of Evolution -- The Evolutionary Views of Tylor and Morgan -- 2 The Reconstruction of Cultural Evolution -- The Comparative Method -- The Possibility of a Social Science -- The Uniformity of Nature -- The Principle of Continuity -- From Simplicity to Complexity -- The Objective Rating of Cultures -- Evolution Not an Inherent Tendency -- The Psychic Unity of Man -- Differential Evolution -- Contemporary Primitives and Ancestral Cultures -- Modern Primitives Not Primeval -- Primal Human Society -- Survivals -- 3 The Characteristics of Cultural Evolution -- Rectilinearity -- Unilinearity -- The Skipping of Stages -- The Law of Evolutionary Potential -- Rates of Evolution -- Diffusion and Evolution -- 4 The Determinants of Cultural Evolution -- Inherent versus External Determinants -- Psychic Unity as an Active Agent -- Racial Determinism -- Human Perfectibility -- Individuals as Determinants -- The Influence of Great Men -- Ideas as Prime Movers -- Historical Materialism -- Environmental Factors -- Subsistence as a Determinant -- Economic Determinants -- Social Determinants -- War as a Determinant -- Natural Selection -- Conclusion -- 5 Anti-Evolutionism in the Ascendancy -- The Boasian Backlash -- Diffusionism in British Anthropology -- The Functionalist Reaction -- Malinowski -- Radcliffe-Brown -- Anti-Evolutionism in Later British Social Anthropology -- Remaining Islands of Cultural Evolutionism: James G. Frazer -- Hobhouse, Wheeler, and Ginsberg -- Sumner and Keller -- George P. Murdock -- The Barren Landscape -- Theorizing Disavowed -- Historical Particularism -- 6 Early Stages in the Reemergence of Evolutionism -- Leslie A. White -- Diffusion versus Evolution -- The Derivation of Evolutionary Formulas

Lawlike generalizations can be developed only for variables exhibiting strict constancy in concept formulation. By considering anthropology a space and its basic concepts as dimensions and borrowing from ecology, cultural materialism, and social, political, and cultural anthropology, we develop a 14‐dimensional space defined by 42 scaled variables. Dimensional analysis performed yields 14 equations and 28 dimensionless expressions that satisfy them. Additionally, we derive a set of 28 ethnological expressions. Entering scaled data from five societies, we solve for each. Twenty‐one expressions yield significant order‐ings. Examination of their performance confirms that they function holistically.

Exercise 1: cultural relativism and ethnocentrism -- Exercise 2: ethics -- Exercise 3: culture -- Exercise 4: language -- Exercise 5: environment -- Exercise 6: economics -- Exercise 7: kinship -- Exercise 8: marriage -- Exercise 9: gender -- Exercise 10: politics -- Exercise 11: stratification -- Exercise 12: religion -- Exercise 13: art -- Exercise 14: power -- Exercise 15: culture change -- Summary exercise: what makes a good anthropologist?