Anthropology What Does It Mean to Be Human 2nd Canadian Edition by Robert Lavenda, Emily Schultz, Cynthia Zutter ISBN 9780199032563 0199032564

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ISBN 10: 0199032564
ISBN 13: 9780199032563
Author: Robert Lavenda, Emily Schultz, Cynthia Zutter

Anthropology What Does It Mean to Be Human 2nd Canadian Edition Table of contents:

1 What Is Anthropology?

What Is Anthropology?

What Is the Concept of Culture?

What Makes Anthropology a Cross-Disciplinary Discipline?

Biological Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Archaeology

Applied Anthropology

Medical Anthropology

The Uses of Anthropology

Chapter Summary

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Key Terms

References

2 Why Is the Concept of Culture Important?

How Do Anthropologists Define Culture?

Culture, History, and Human Agency

Why Do Cultural Differences Matter?

Does Culture Explain Everything?

How Can Cultural Relativity Improve Our Understanding of Controversial Cultural Practices?

The Promise of the Anthropological Perspective

Chapter Summary

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Key Terms

References

3 Why Is Evolution Important to Anthropologists?

What Is Evolutionary Theory?

What Material Evidence Is There for Evolution?

Pre-Darwinian Views of the Natural World

What Is Natural Selection?

How Did Biologists Learn about Genes?

Genotype, Phenotype, and the Norm of Reaction

What Does Evolution Mean to Anthropologists?

Chapter Summary

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Key Terms

References

4 What Can the Study of Primates Tell Us about Human Beings?

What Are Primates?

How Do Anthropologists Classify Primates?

What Do We Know about the Kinds of Primates Living Today?

What Is Ethnoprimatology?

Are There Patterns in Primate Evolution?

How Do Paleoanthropologists Reconstruct Primate Evolutionary History?

Chapter Summary

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Key Terms

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5 What Can the Fossil Record Tell Us about Human Origins?

What Is Macroevolution?

What Is Hominin Evolution?

Who Were the First Hominins (6–3 mya)?

Who Were the Later Australopiths (3–1.5 mya)?

How Can Anthropologists Explain the Human Transition?

What Do We Know about Early Homo (2.4–1.5 mya)?

Who Was Homo erectus (1.8–0.3 mya)?

Chapter Summary

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6 How Did Homo sapiens Evolve?

How Did Homo sapiens Evolve?

Who Were the Neanderthals (230,000–27,000 Years Ago)?

What Do We Know about the Culture of the Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age?

What Do We Know about Anatomically Modern Humans (300,000 Years Ago to Present)?

What Do We Know about the Upper Paleolithic/Late Stone Age (40,000–10,000 Years Ago)?

What Happened to the Neanderthals?

How Many Kinds of Upper Paleolithic/Late Stone Age Cultures Were There?

Where Did Modern Homo sapiens Migrate in Late Pleistocene Times?

Two Million Years of Human Evolution

Chapter Summary

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7 What Can Evolutionary Theory Tell Us about Human Variation?

What Is Microevolution?

Can We Predict the Future of Human Evolution?

Chapter Summary

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8 How Do We Know about the Human Past?

What Is Archaeology?

How Do Archaeologists Interpret the Past?

Whose Past Is It?

Plundering the Past

Contemporary Trends in Archaeology

Chapter Summary

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Key Terms

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9 Why Did Humans Settle Down, Build Cities, and Establish States?

How Is the Human Imagination Entangled with the Material World?

Is Plant Cultivation a Form of Niche Construction?

How Do Anthropologists Explain the Origins of Animal Domestication?

When and Why Did Animal Domestication Begin?

What Influenced the Beginnings of Domestication at Different Places around the World?

How Did Domestication, Cultivation, and Sedentism Begin in Southwestern Asia?

What Were the Consequences of Domestication and Sedentism?

How Do Anthropologists Define Social Complexity?

What Is the Archaeological Evidence for Social Complexity?

How Can Anthropologists Explain the Rise of Complex Societies?

Chapter Summary

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10 Why Do Anthropologists Study Economic Relations?

How Do Anthropologists Study Economic Relations?

How Do Anthropologists Study Production, Distribution, and Consumption?

How Are Goods Distributed and Exchanged?

Does Production Drive Economic Activities?

Why Do People Consume What They Do?

The Anthropology of Food

Chapter Summary

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11 What Can Anthropology Teach Us about Sex, Gender, and Sexuality?

How Did Twentieth-Century Feminism Shape the Anthropological Study of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality?

How Do Anthropologists Organize the Study of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality?

How Are Sex and Gender Affected by Other Forms of Identity?

How Do Ethnographers Study Gender Performativity?

How Do Anthropologists Study Connections among Sex, Gender, Sexuality, and the Body?

How Do Anthropologists Study Relations between Sex, Gender, and Sexuality?

How Does Ethnography Document Variable Cultural Understandings Concerning Sex, Gender, and Sexuality?

Chapter Summary

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12 Where Do Our Relatives Come From and Why Do They Matter?

How Do Human Beings Organize Interdependence?

What Is Kinship?

What Is Adoption?

How Flexible Can Relatedness Be?

What Is Marriage?

What Is a Family?

How Are Families Transformed over Time?

How Does International Migration Affect the Family?

What Is Friendship?

Chapter Summary

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13 How Do Anthropologists Study Political Relations?

How Are Culture and Politics Related?

How Do Anthropologists Study Politics?

How Do Anthropologists Study Politics of the Nation-State?

What Happens to Citizenship in a Globalized World?

Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter Summary

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14 What Can Anthropology Tell Us about Social Groups and Inequality?

What Are Naturalizing Discourses?

How Do Anthropologists Study Human Rights?

Chapter Summary

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Key Terms

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15 Why Is Understanding Human Language Important?

What Makes Language Distinctively Human?

How Are Language and Culture Related?

How Do We Communicate without Language?

How Do Languages Change over Time?

What Does It Mean to “Learn” a Language?

What Happens When Languages Come into Contact with One Another?

What Is Linguistic Inequality?

What Is Lost if a Language Dies?

How Are Language and Truth Connected?

Chapter Summary

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16 How Do We Make Meaning?

What Is Play?

What Is Art?

What Is Myth?

What Is Ritual?

How Are World View and Symbolic Practice Related?

World Views in Operation

Maintaining and Changing a World View

How Are World Views Used as Instruments of Power?

Why Study Anthropology?

Chapter Summary

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Key Terms

References

Glossary

Index

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