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Culture and Meaning -- The Meaning of Progress and Development -- Debt, Globalization, and the Nation State -- The Cultural Construction of Social Hierarchy -- The Social and Cultural Construction of Reality -- Patterns of Family Relations -- The Cultural Construction of Identity -- The Cultural Construction of Violent Conflict.

"The Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology is an accessible, hands-on guide to the hundreds of terms the student of anthropology and the general reader will encounter in dealing with anthropological and ethnographic literature. It includes related terminology from allied fields such as sociology, economics, and geography. The focus is on key concepts in anthropology, with a number of biographies included to identify influential figures who have formulated central theories and conducted the most famous field research within cultures around the world. Extensive bibliographical references provide pointers for further research. Anthropology is a relatively young discipline with a complex history. Anthropological research encompasses hundreds of cultures and provides a valuable perspective on an increasingly globalized world. Written by a researcher and librarian expert in the fields of social and cultural anthropology, this Concise Dictionary offers an invaluable reference to the terminology and accomplishments of this far-reaching and diverse field."--Page 4 of cover

Two types of ecosystems / Clifford Geertz -- An approach to the bioenergetics of rural west Bengal / Dwain W. Parrack -- !Kung bushman subsistence : an input-output analysis / Richard B. Lee -- Ecology and adaptation to parasitic diseases / Alexander Alland, Jr. -- Cultural and natural checks on population growth / D. H. Stott -- Divination : a new perspective / Omar Khayyam Moore -- The potlatch system of the southern Kwakiutl : a new perspective / Stuart Piddocke -- Camel pastoralism in north Arabia and the minimal camping unit / Louise E. Sweet -- Ritual regulation of environmental relations among a New Guinea people / Roy A. Rappaport -- Expansion and warfare among Swidden agriculturalists / Andrew P. Vayda -- An ethnoecological approach to shifting agriculture / Harold C. Conklin -- Man against his environment : a game theoretic framework / Peter R. Gould -- Computers and the evaluation of resource management strategies / Kenneth E. F. Watt -- Cultural influences on population : a comparison of two Tup(c)Ư tribes / Charles Wagley -- The ecology of early food production in Mesopotamia / Kent V. Flannery -- Sickle-cell trait in human biological and cultural evoluation / Stephen L. Wiesenfeld -- Swidden agriculture and the rise of Maya civilization / D. E. Dumond -- Relations of environmental and cultural factors / Alfred L. Kroeber -- Ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat, North Pakistan / Fredrik Barth -- Ecological determinants of chieftainship among the Yaruro Indians of Venezuela / Anthony Leeds -- Land use and the extended family in Moala, Fiji / Marshall D. Sahlins -- Effects of climate on certain cultural practices / John W. M. Whiting -- The ecosystem concept and the problem of air pollution / Otis Dudley Duncan