Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective

Preface. List of Cases. Part I: Culture, Society, and the Individual. 1. The Anthropological Approach. 2. Culture and People: Some Basic Concepts. 3. Language and Communication. 4. Culture and the Individual. Part II: Tribal Peoples: Toward a Systematic View. 5. The Tribal World as Mosaic, as Ladder, and as System. 6. Modes of Subsistence, Modes of Adaptation. 7. How Cultures Change. Part III: The Tribal World: The Legacy of Human Diversity. 8. Economic Systems. 9. Kinship, Descent, and Social Structure. 10. Marriage, Family, and Community. 11. Power and Politics. 12. Gendered Lives. 13. Structures of Inequality. 14. Law and Social Control. 15. Religion: Ritual, Myth, and Cosmos. 16. The Integration of Societies, the Structure of Cultures. Part IV: Anthropology and the Present. 17. Response to Cataclysm: The Tribal World and the Expansion of the West. 18. Peasants. 19. Colonialism and Postcolonialism. 20. Cities. 21. Social Science and the Postcolonial World. 22. Toward Human Survival. Postscript. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.