Cultural anthropology: global forces, local lives

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"Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives is an accessible, ethnographically rich, cultural anthropology textbook which gives a coherent and refreshingly new vision of the discipline and its subject matter - human diversity. The fifteen chapters and three extended case studies present all of the necessary areas of cultural anthropology, organizing them in conceptually and thematically meaningful and original ways."--BOOK JACKET.

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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:xix, 432 pages : : color illustrations, maps ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:041548538X, 9780415485388, 0415485398, 9780415485395, 0203875613, 9780203875612
oclc:ocn272305664
LC Classification:GN316
Dewey Decimal:599.97

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.