PART ONE: BASIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY Chapter 1: Anthropology: What Are Its Subfields and Perspectives? Chapter 2: Culture: What Makes Us Strangers When We Are Away from Home? Chapter 3: Fieldwork: How Are Data Gathered? Chapter 4: Language: Is This What Makes Us Human? PART TWO: CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTIVE PATTERNS Chapter 5: Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation I: What Challenges Face Foragers? Chapter 6: Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation II: How Did Food Production Transform Culture? Chapter 7: Marriage, Family, and Residence: What Are the Possibilities? Chapter 8: Kinship and Descent: Are These the Ties That Bind? Chapter 9: Gender and Sexuality: Nature or Nurture? Chapter 10: Political Order, Disorder, and Social Control: Who Decides? Chapter 11: Belief Systems: How Do We Explain the Unexplainable? Chapter 12: Expressions: Is This Art? PART THREE: APPLYING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Chapter 13: Culture Change and Globalization: What Have We Learned? Chapter 14: Applying Anthropology: How Does It Make a Difference? Appendix A: How Do You Read an Ethnography? Appendix B: How Do You Make String Figures? Glossary References Credits Index

An introduction to cultural anthropology. It provides students with the opportunity to explore anthropology's relevance to their own lives. It includes "Try This" exercises that encourage students to think critically and apply anthropological concepts, perspectives and methods.