The tapestry of culture : an introduction to cultural anthropology
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The tapestry of culture : an introduction to cultural anthropology
McGraw-Hill, c1995
5th ed
- acid-free paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-341) and index
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Description
This text provides students with a clear and concise statement of the basic concepts of cultural anthropology and shows their interrelationships within a larger conceptual framework. This fifth edition provides current research and updated discussion reflecting postmodernist influences on anthropology in the 1990s. It discusses societal changes due to technological advances, effects of computerization on the work force, the impact of new reproductive technologies on motherhood and parenting, and changes in the conceptualization of gender/gender role and of family organization. A new chapter is devoted to issues of ethnicity, race and nationalism, focusing on the US, Sri Lanka, Quebec and the former Soviet states.
Table of Contents
- The anthropological point of view
- rituals in small-scale and complex societies - a contrast
- language and culture
- symbolistic systems and meanings
- family, marriage and kinship
- gender and age
- provisioning society - production, distribution and consumption
- political organization - politics, government, law and conflict
- religion and the supernatural
- myths, legends and folktales
- the artistic dimension
- culture and the individual
- Fourth World peoples in the colonial and post-colonial periods
- anthropology for the 21st century - ethnicity, race and nationalism
- epilogue - end of a journey.
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