Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 1 -- Orientation -- Why Anthropology? (Some Warnings) -- Human Nature -- Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism -- Chapter 2 -- What Is the Meaning of Life? Worldviews -- Chapter 3 -- You are OK, How Am I? Feedback Loops -- Chapter 4 -- Traffic Jams: Optimizing and Maximizing -- Chapter 5 -- There's No Free Lunch: Gifts, Reciprocity, and Transactions -- Chapter 6 -- What's the Difference? Emic and Etic -- Chapter 7 -- Who Is My Brother? Kinship Systems -- LGBTQ+ Kinship -- Chapter 8 -- "Till Death Us Do Part": Marriage -- Chapter 9 -- Neither In nor Out: Liminal Stuff -- Chapter 10 -- Why Did the Anthropologist Cross the Road? What Traffic Patterns Tells Us about Cultures -- Tokyo -- New York -- London -- Buenos Aires -- Naples -- Kunming -- Phnom Penh -- Hanoi -- Cultural Patterns -- Chapter 11 -- Waiter There's a Dragonfly in My Soup: Food Taboos -- Chapter 12 -- Ancient Greeks Had No Word for Blue: Color Classification, Language, and Cognition -- Chapter 13 -- Tag, You're It: Magic, Religion, and Science -- Chapter 14 -- Then and Now: The Search for Origins -- Chapter 15 -- Got Any Change? Marx versus Weber -- Chapter 16 -- Lord, I'm Coming Home: Home and Identity -- Chapter 17 -- I Like It, But Is It Art? Anthropology of Aesthetics -- Chapter 18 -- A Change Is as Good as a Rest: Revitalization and Social Change -- Chapter 19 -- Where Is the Center? Who Am I? -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms -- About the Author -- Blank Page.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9798891134140
Series Statement:
Anthropology Research and Developments Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31323898
Language:
English
Note:
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