Cultural anthropology: global forces, local lives

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An accessible introductory texbook which covers not only the classical topics of€cultural anthropology€ - economics, politics, kinship, religion, language, gender - but also seriously engages with contemporary cultural processes and problems like nationalism, ethnic conflict, consumption, development, popular culture, cultural tourism and cultural movements like globalization and fundamentalism.

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Full title :Cultural anthropology : global forces, local lives / Jack David Eller.

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Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

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Description:1 online resource (xix, 432 pages) : : illustrations (chiefly color), maps

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ISBN:9780203875612, 0203875613
oclc:ocn654780732
LC Classification:GN316
Dewey Decimal:306

Understanding anthropology -- Understanding and studying culture -- The origins of cultural anthropology -- Language and social relations -- Learning to be an individual : personality and gender -- Individuals and identities : race and ethnicity -- Economics : humans, nature, and social organization -- Kinship and non-kin organization : creating social groups -- Politics : social order and social control -- Religion : interacting with the non-human world -- Cultural dynamics : continuity and change -- Colonialism and the origin of globalization -- The struggle for political identity : nationalism, ethnicity, and conflict -- The struggle for economic independence : development, modernization, and globalization -- The struggle for cultural survival, revival, and revitalization.