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Author(s): John H. Bodley
ISBN(s): 9780759118652, 0759118655
Edition: 5th Edition
File Details: PDF, 58.63 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0759118655

ISBN 13: 9780759118652

Author: John H. Bodley

This introductory text introduces basic concepts in cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues throughout human history. Cultural materials are presented in integrated ethnographic case studies organized by cultural and geographic areas to show how ideological, social organization, and material features fit together in specific sociocultural systems. John H. Bodley explicitly seeks a balance between ecological-materialist and cultural-ideological explanations of sociocultural systems, while stressing the importance of individual power-seeking and human agency. Part One examines domestic-scale, autonomous tribal cultures. Part Two presents politically organized, class-based civilizations and ancient empires in the imperial world. Part Three surveys global, industrial, market-based civilizations in the contemporary commercial world. Cultural Anthropology uniquely challenges students to consider the big questions about the nature of cultural systems.

Table of contents:

  1. Culture: a scale and power perspective
  2. Native Amazonians: villagers of the rain forest
  3. Australian aborigines: mobile foragers for 50,000 years
  4. African cattle peoples: tribal pastoralists
  5. Cross-cultural perspectives on the tribal world
  6. Pacific islanders: from leaders to rulers
  7. Ancient empires in two worlds: Mesopotamia and the Andes
  8. The Chinese great tradition
  9. Hinduism and Islam in South Asia
  10. The capitalist world system
  11. The United States: an American plutocracy
  12. An unsustainable global system
  13. Tribes to Nations: progress of the victims
  14. Small nations solving global problems
  15. Envisioning a sustainable world

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