Part 1 - Fundamentals — Read — Invisible Network

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Chapters in the first section cover the fundamental topics found in most introductory cultural anthropology courses.

1.1: Introduction to Anthropology
1.2: The Culture Concept
1.3: Doing Fieldwork - Methods in Cultural Anthropology
1.4: Language
Students in my cultural anthropology classes are required to memorize a six-point thumbnail definition of culture, which includes all of the features most anthropologists agree are key to its essence.
1.5: Subsistence
1.6: Economics
1.7: Political Anthropology- A Cross-Cultural Comparison
All cultures have one element in common: they somehow exercise social control over their own members. Even small foraging societies such as the Ju/’hoansi or !Kung, the Inuit (or “Eskimo”) of the Arctic north, and aboriginal Australians experience disputes that must be contained if inter-personal conflicts are to be reduced or eliminated. As societies become more complex, means of control increase accordingly. The study of these means of control are the subject of political anthropology.
1.8: Family and Marriage
1.9: Race and Ethnicity
1.10: Gender and Sexuality
1.11: Religion
1.12: Globalization

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