xvii, 476 pages : 26 cm

Offers a framework centered on globalization and culture change. This title offers a narrative that provides ways of looking at many of the challenges facing the world, as students examine ethnic conflicts, globalization of culture and language, recent debates about gay marriage, increasing inequalities, population growth, hunger, and more

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

The story of humanity -- Culture -- Culture and language -- The development of anthropological thought -- Methods of investigation -- Culture and nature: interacting with the environment -- Exchange in economic systems -- Marriages and families -- kinship and descent -- Enculturation and the life course -- gender in comparative perspective -- The organization of political life -- Social inequality and stratification -- Religion and worldview -- Art and the aesthetic -- Globalization -- Ethnicity and ethnic conflict -- World problems and the practice of anthropology

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