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Anthropology -- A very short history of cultural anthropology -- Culture, personality, and worldview -- Doing cultural anthropology -- Anthropological linguistics -- Social organization -- Political organization -- Economic organization -- Identity -- Religion, ritual, and knowledge -- Expressive culture -- Change and development -- Applied anthropology.

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.

"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."--

"This concise, contemporary option for instructors of cultural anthropology breaks away from the traditional structure of introductory textbooks. Emphasizing the interaction between humans and their environment, the tension between human universals and cultural variation, and the impacts of colonialism on traditional cultures, Inside Cultures shows students how cultural anthropology can help us understand the complex, globalized world around us. This third edition: contains brand new material on many subjects, including anthropological approaches to anti-racism social movements in the Global North during 2020; includes findings in anthropological research regarding the covid-19 pandemic, and its relation to other recent global events and conditions; updates the organization and presentation of cultural universals and cultural variations; presents updated and enhanced discussions of anthropological studies of humankind and the environment, with expanded analysis of industrial agriculture in the age of globalization, includes more illustrations and updates to existing illustrations, sidebars, and guideposts throughout the volume; is written is clear, supple prose that delights readers while informing on content of one of the important courses in a liberal arts education, one that effectively bridges humanities and the sciences"--

Understanding anthropology -- Understanding and studying culture -- The origins of cultural anthropology -- Language and social relations -- Cultural construction of persons : personality and gender -- Iindividuals and identities : race and ethnicity -- Health, illness, body and culture : seeing culture as a whole -- African American women facing a future with HIV/AIDS -- Economics : humans, nature and society -- Kinship and non-kin organization : being, becoming, and social organization -- Politics : social order and social control -- Religion : relating to the non-human worldseeing culture as a whole -- Magic, matrilineality, and (re)production in the Trobriand Islands -- Cultural dynamics : Tradition and change -- Colonialism and the origin of globalization -- The struggle for political identity in a mobil and undertain world -- Economics in a globalized world : development, modernization and neoliberalism -- Cultural survival and revival in the 21st century -- Waiting for a future delayed : passing time in India and beyond.

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?

Der Autor gibt in 14 Kapiteln einen prägnanten Überblick über die Sozialanthropologie Afrikas. Nach einer kurzen theoretischen Einführung zur Sozialanthropologie und den Methoden der Studie untersucht das Buch eine Vielzahl von Aspekten der afrikanischen Kultur: Religion, Symbolismus, Rituale, Gemeinschafts-, Ehe- und Familienleben, Bildende Künste. Beachtung wird auch dem soziokulturellen Wandel angesichts der Urbanisierung in Afrika geschenkt. (DÜI-Sbd)