Introductory readings in anthropology
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Introductory readings in anthropology
Berghahn Books in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [410]-412) and index
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Description
Anthropology seeks to understand the roots of our common humanity, the diversity of cultures and world-views, and the organisation of social relations and practices. As a method of inquiry it embraces an enormous range of topics, and as a discipline it covers a multitude of fields and themes, as shown in this selection of original writings. As an accessible entry point, for upper-level students and first year undergraduates new to the study of anthropology, this reader also offers guidance for teachers in exploring the subject's riches with their students. That anthropology is an immensely expansive inquiry of study is demonstrated by the diversity of its topics - from nature conservation campaigns to witchcraft beliefs, from human evolution to fashion and style, and from the repatriation of indigenous human remains to research on literacy. There is no single 'story of anthropology'. Taken together, these fundamental readings are evidence of a contemporary, vibrant subject that has much to tell us about all the worlds in which we live.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
A Note on Original Sources
General Introduction
Hilary Callan, Brian Street and Simon Underdown
Section I: Being Human: Unity and Diversity
Introduction to Section I
Hilary Callan, Brian Street and Simon Underdown
I.1 Evolutionary Processes and Human Origins
Chapter 1. What Is Natural Selection?
R. Lewin and R. Foley
Chapter 2. Explaining the Very Improbable
Richard Dawkins
Chapter 3. What Is Sexual Selection?
R. Lewin and R. Foley
Chapter 4. Human Evoluton: An Overview
Simon Underdown
Chapter 5. Were the Neanderthals So Different from Us?
Chris Stringer
Chapter 6. An Evolving Tale
Simon Underdown
I.2 The Body
Ways of Thinking about 'Race' and Ethnicity
Chapter 7. Race against Time
Simon Underdown
Chapter 8. Dem Bones
Simon Underdown
Chapter 9. Representations of Non-European Society in Popular Fiction
Brian Street
Chapter 10. Unravelling 'Race' for the Twenty-first Century
Faye V. Harrison
A Source of Meanings and a Site of Social Discipline and Control
Chapter 11. The Body: Subjugated and Unsexed
Judith Okely
I.3 Ways of Thinking and Communicating
Language Evolution
Chapter 12. How Humans are Different
Robin Dunbar
Chapter 13. Technical Difficulties and Hopeful Monsters
Terrence Deacon
Language and Classification
Chapter 14. The 'Savage' Mind
Claude Levi-Strauss
Explanation of Events
Chapter 15. Witchcraft Beliefs
Godfrey Lienhardt
The Ethnographic Study of Language and Communication
Chapter 16. The Ethnographic Study of Language and Communication
Shirley Heath and Brian Street
Language and Ethnicity
Chapter 17. Language in Late Modernity
B. Rampton
Anthropological Approaches to Literacy and Numeracy
Chapter 18. Everyday Literacies in Africa
A.H. Gebre, A. Rogers, B. Street and G. Openjuru
Multimodal Discourse
Chapter 19. Multimodal Discourse
G. Kress and T. van Leeuwen
I.4. Organising Social Relations: Kinship and Gender
Chapter 20. The Semantics of Biology
Kirsten Hastrup
Chapter 21. 'Ladies' behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror
John M. Coggeshall
I.5 Engaging with Nature
Chapter 22. Social Views of the Environment
Joy Hendry
Chapter 23. Death on the Farm: Badger Culling in North Pembrokeshire
Pat Caplan
Chapter 24. The Whaling War: Conflicting Cultural Perspectives
Adrian Peace
Chapter 25. Ducks Out of Water: Nature Conservation as Boundary Maintenance
Kay Milton
I.6 The Humanity of Things
Chapter 26. Feminine Power at Sea
Silvia Rodgers
Chapter 27. Why Clothing Is Not Superficial
Daniel Miller
Section II: Becoming a Person: Identity and Belonging
Introduction to Section II
Hilary Callan, Brian Street and Simon Underdown
II.1 Personhood
Contrasting Concepts
Chapter 28. The Social Character of Humanity
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Chapter 29. Anthropology of the Self
Brian Morris
Transitions
Chapter 30. Rites of Passage
Joy Hendry
Identities
Chapter 31. A Sense of People and Place
Gaynor Cohen
II.2 Drawing Boundaries and Defining Groups
Chapter 32. What's in a Name? Creating Identities in Britain
Jemma Underdown
Chapter 33. Gypsy Women: Models in Conflict
Judith Okely
II.3 Ritual and Social Relations
Chapter 34. Extract from The Ritual Process
Victor Turner
Suggestions for Further Reading
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