Perspectives - An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology 1e

by Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, and Laura Tubelle de González

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The first peer-reviewed open access textbook for cultural anthropology courses. Produced by the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges and available free of charge for use in any setting.

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Publisher
Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges
Subjects
Social Sciences, Anthropology
Licence
CC BY-NC, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Preface
  7. Title page
  8. 1: The Development of Anthropological Ideas (Nader)
  9. Front Matter
  10. TitlePage
  11. InfoPage
  12. 1: The Development of Anthropological Ideas (Nader)
  13. Back Matter
  14. Index
  15. 2: Culture Concept (Cowall and Mederios)
  16. 2: Culture Concept (Cowall and Mederios)
  17. 3: Doing Fieldwork - Methods in Cultural Anthropology (Nelson)
  18. 3: Doing Fieldwork: Methods in Cultural Anthropology (Nelson)
  19. 4: Language (Light)
  20. 4: Language (Light)
  21. 5: Subsistence (Shearn)
  22. 5: Subsistence (Shearn)
  23. 6: Economics (Lyon)
  24. 6: Economics (Lyon)
  25. 7: Political Anthropology - A Cross-Cultural Comparison (McDowell)
  26. 8: Political Anthropology - A Cross-Cultural Comparison (McDowell)
  27. 8: Family and Marriage (Gilliland)
  28. 9: Family and Marriage (Gilliland)
  29. 9: Race and Ethnicity (García)
  30. 10: Race and Ethnicity (García)
  31. 10: Gender and Sexuality (Mukhopadhyay, Blumenfield, Harper & Gondek)
  32. 11: Gender and Sexuality (Mukhopadhyay, Blumenfield, Harper & Gondek)
  33. 11: Religion (Henninger-Rener)
  34. 12: Religion (Henninger-Rener)
  35. 12: Globalization (Griffith and Marion)
  36. 12: Globalization (Griffith and Marion)
  37. 13: Culture and Sustainability - Environmental Anthropology in the Anthropocene (Palmer)
  38. 13: Culture and Sustainability (Palmer)
  39. 14: Performance (Griffith and Marion)
  40. 14: Performance (Griffith and Marion)
  41. 15: Media Anthropology - Meaning, Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Activism (Peake)
  42. 15: Media Anthropology: Meaning, Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Activism (Peake)
  43. 17: Health and Medicine (Henninger-Rener)
  44. 16: Health and Medicine (Henninger-Rener)
  45. 18: Seeing Like an Anthropologist (Cochrane)
  46. 16: Seeing Like an Anthropologist (Cochrane)
  47. 19: Public Anthropology (Borofsky)
  48. 17: Public Anthropology (Borofsky)
  49. Appendices
  50. A1: videos
  51. A2: Anthropology in Our Moment in History - Interview with Philippe Bourgois
  52. A3: Can Anthropology Save the World (Scheper-Hughes)
  53. A4: Envisioning a More Public Anthropology - Interview with Fredrik Barth
  54. A5: Interview with Carolyn Nordstrom (Borofsky)
  55. Back Matter
  56. Index
  57. 13: image credits
  58. Detailed Licensing