Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global System, Seventh
Edition, provides balanced coverage of three dramatically different
cultural worlds by focusing on problems of social inequality, human
well-being, social justice, and sustainability. Author John Bodley
challenges students to consider “big questions” about the nature
of cultural systems: How are cultures structured to satisfy basic
human needs? What is it like to be human under different cultural
conditions? Are DNA, language, and environment determinants of
culture? Are materialist explanations more useful than ideological
ones? What are the major turning points in human history? Scale and
power remains the primary theoretical framework, but cultural
evolutionary perspectives have been expanded. NEW TO THIS EDITION
Chapter Two now includes a new section discussing evolutionary
cultural anthropology, a new box that updates the archaeological,
biological anthropology, and genetic material on anatomically modern
humans, and a discussion of the connection between evolutionary
anthropology and the moral domains and values that support social
cooperation. Chapter Six has new sections on soul beliefs and
shamanism, wealth and well-being, and findings from the long-running
Tsimane health project in the Bolivian Amazon. The section on the
“mental abilities of tribal peoples” is revised to read
“cognitive abilities” and a new discussion of working memory as a
defining feature of fully modern humans is included. Chapter Seven
includes a new box presenting some of the latest genetic, linguistic,
and paleoclimate findings related to the colonization of the Pacific.
Chapter Ten adds a new section on demographic-structural and cultural
evolutionary theory on the rise and fall of politically centralized
societies using the Seshat Global History Databank. Chapter Thirteen
adds a new section “A Cascade of Unsustainability Warnings” on the
very alarming back to back IPCC special report on the dangers of
global warming exceeding 1.5oC, published in fall 2018, and the spring
2019 IPBES Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
Chapter Fourteen adds two new sections, the first questioning whether
capitalism itself can be sustainable, the second considering the
alternatives for adapting to climate change. Ancillary materials for
both instructors and students are written by the author and include an
instructor’s manual, test bank, presentation slides, and an
open-access companion website.
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ISBN
9781538127919
Publisert
2020
Utgave
7. utgave
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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