Cultural anthropology

By: Bates, Daniel GContributor(s): Plog, FredMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1990Edition: 3rd edDescription: xx, 501 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 9780070040663; 0070040664 (text); 0070040672 (instructor's manual)Subject(s): EthnologyDDC classification: 306
Contents:
Part 1 The anthropological perspective: anthropology and the study of culture; the development of anthropological theories; methods of cultural anthropology. Part 2 Adaptive patterns: decisions, adaptation and evolution; hunting and gathering; horticulture; pastoralism; intensive agriculture; industrial society. Part 3 The diversity of adaptive patterns: biology, culture and the individual; the anthropology of language; kinship, marriage and household organization; social groups and stratification; economics - resources, production and exchange; politics, social control and political organization; religious belief and ritual; cultural change and development - anthropology at work
Summary: Assuming no background in the subject, this text broadly introduces students to the basics of cultural anthropology. Taking an ecological and evolutionary approach, the central themes include the adaptive strategies of people as active decision-makers, their societies and evolutionary processes
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Rev. ed. of Cultural anthropology / Fred Plog. 2nd ed. c1980.

Part 1 The anthropological perspective: anthropology and the study of culture; the development of anthropological theories; methods of cultural anthropology. Part 2 Adaptive patterns: decisions, adaptation and evolution; hunting and gathering; horticulture; pastoralism; intensive agriculture; industrial society. Part 3 The diversity of adaptive patterns: biology, culture and the individual; the anthropology of language; kinship, marriage and household organization; social groups and stratification; economics - resources, production and exchange; politics, social control and political organization; religious belief and ritual; cultural change and development - anthropology at work

Assuming no background in the subject, this text broadly introduces students to the basics of cultural anthropology. Taking an ecological and evolutionary approach, the central themes include the adaptive strategies of people as active decision-makers, their societies and evolutionary processes

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