Each chapter ends with Key Terms, a Chapter Summary, and Suggested Readings.Preface: 1. What Is Anthropology?What Is Anthropology?The Concept of CultureThe Cross-Disciplinary DisciplineThe Uses of AnthropologyModule 1. Anthropology, Science, and StorytellingSome Key Scientific ConceptsModule SummaryKey Terms2. Why Is Evolution Important to Anthropologists?Evolutionary TheoryMaterial Evidence for EvolutionPre-Darwinian Views of the Natural WorldThe Theory of Natural SelectionUnlocking the Secrets of HeredityContemporary GeneticsGenotype, Phenotype, and the Norm of ReactionWhat Does Evolution Mean?3. What Can Evolutionary Theory Tell Us about Human Variation?MicroevolutionMacroevolutionThe Future of Human EvolutionModule 2. Dating Methods in Paleoanthropology and ArchaeologyRelative Dating MethodsNumerical Dating MethodsModeling Prehistoric ClimatesModule SummaryKey Terms4. What Can the Study of Primates Tell Us about Human Beings?The PrimatesApproaches to Primate TaxonomyThe Living PrimatesFlexibility as the Hallmark of Primate AdaptationsPast Evolutionary Trends in PrimatesPrimate Evolution: The First 60 Million Years5.
What Can the Fossil Record Tell Us about Human Origins?Hominid EvolutionThe First Hominids (6-3 mya)The Later Australopithecines (3-1.5 mya)Explaining the Human TransitionEarly Homo Species (2.4-1.5 mya)Homo erectus (1.8-1.7 mya to 0.5-0.4 mya)The Evolutionary Fate of H.
erectusThe Evolution of H. sapiensAn Archaic Human Population: Neandertals (130,000-35,000 Years Ago)Middle Paleolithic / Middle Stone Age CultureAnatomically Modern Humans (200,000 Years Ago to Present)The Upper Paleolithic / Late Stone Age (40,000?-12,000 Years Ago)The Fate of the NeandertalsUpper Paleolithic / Late Stone Age CulturesSpread of Modern H. sapiens in Late Pleistocene TimesTwo Million Years of Human Evolution6. How Do We Know about the Human Past?ArchaeologyInterpreting the PastWhose Past Is It?Plundering the PastContemporary Trends in Archaeology7. Why Did Humans Settle Down, Build Cities, and Establish States?Human Imagination and the Material WorldPlant Cultivation as a Form of Niche ConstructionAnimal DomesticationThe Motor of DomesticationDomestication, Cultivation, and Sedentism in Southwest AsiaThe Consequences of Domestication and SedentismWhat Is Social Complexity?Archaeological Evidence for Social ComplexityHow Can Anthropologists Explain the Rise of Complex Societies?8. How Does the Concept of Culture Help Us Understand Living Human Societies?Explaining Culture and the Human ConditionCultural DifferencesCulture, History, and Human AgencyWriting against CultureThe Promise of the Anthropological PerspectiveModule 3. On Ethnographic MethodsA Meeting of Cultural TraditionsSingle-Sited FieldworkMultisited FieldworkCollecting and Interpreting DataModule SummaryKey TermsSuggested Readings9. How Do Cultural Anthropologists Learn about Contemporary Ways of Life?Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Short HistoryThe Dialectic of Fieldwork: Interpretation and TranslationThe Effects of FieldworkThe Production of Anthropological KnowledgeAnthropological Knowledge as Open-Ended10.
Why Is Understanding Human Language Important?Language and CultureDesign Features of Human LanguageLanguage and ContextPidgin Languages: Negotiated MeaningLinguistic InequalityLanguage IdeologyLanguage, Culture, and ThoughtLanguage, Thought, and Symbolic PracticeLanguages, Symbolic Practices, WorldviewsSymbolic Practices, Worldviews, Selves11. How Do Symbolic Practices Shape Human Lives?PlayArtMythRitualWorldview and Symbolic PracticeReligionWorldviews in Operation: Case StudiesMaintaining and Changing a WorldviewWorldviews as Instruments of Power12. How Do Anthropologists Study Economic and Political Relations in Contemporary Human Societies?Anthropologists Study Social OrganizationHow Do Anthropologists Study Politics?Hidden Transcripts and the Power of ReflectionHow Do Politics and Economics Shape Each Other?How Do Anthropologists Study Economics?Distribution and ExchangeProductionConsumption13. Where Do Our Relatives Come From and Why Do They Matter?KinshipPatterns of Descent in KinshipLineagesKinship TerminologiesAdoptionMarriageMarriage as a Social ProcessMarriage and Economic ExchangeFamilyTransformations in Families Over TimeInternational Migration and the FamilySexual PracticesSexuality and Power14. What Can Anthropology Tell Us about Social Inequality?Inequality and Structural Violence in HaitiGenderClassCasteRaceEthnicityNation and Nationalism15. What Can Anthropology Tell Us about Globalization?Post-Cold War Debates about GlobalizationCultural Processes in a Global WorldGlobalization and the Nation-StateHuman Rights and GlobalizationCultural Imperialism, Cultural Hybridization, and CosmopolitanismModule 4. What Can Anthropology Contribute to Everyday Life?Anthropology beyond the UniversityAnthropology and the Challenges of Global CitizenshipAwareness and UncertaintyModule Summary: Suggested Readings: ReferencesCreditsIndex.