Conrad Phillip Kottak

Anthropology

The Exploration of Human Diversity, with Living Anthropology Student CD and Powerweb

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Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of Kottak's best selling text continues to offer a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective. To emphasize anthropology's integrated and comparative nature, "Bringing It All Together" essays show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive feature, "Understanding Ourselves," illustrates the relevance of anthropological facts and theories to students' everyday lives. In addition, every new copy of the eleventh edition is packaged free with a new student CD-ROM as well as "PowerWeb"!.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• 11th Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 579
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 276mm x 216mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1642g
• ISBN-13: 9780073137476
• ISBN-10: 0073137472
• Artikelnr.: 21815095

Autorenporträt

Conrad Phillip Kottak (A.B. Columbia College 1963; Ph.D. Columbia University, 1966) is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1968. In 1991 he was honored for his teaching by the University and state of Michigan. In 1992 he received an excellence in teaching award from the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts of the University of Michigan. And in 1999 the American Anthropological Association (AAA) awarded Professor Kottak the AAA/Mayfield Award for Excellence in the Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology. Professor Kottak has done ethnographic field work in Brazil (since 1962), Madagascar (since 1966), and the United States. His general interests are in the processes by which local cultures are incorporated--and resist incorporation--into larger systems. This interest links his earlier work on ecology and state formation in Africa and Madagascar to his more recent research on global change, national and international culture, and the mass media. The third edition of Kottak's popular case study Assault on Paradise: Social Change in a Brazilian Village, based on his field work in Arembepe, Bahia, Brazil, was published in 1999 by McGraw-Hill. In a research project during the 1980s, Kottak blended ethnography and survey research in studying 'Television's Behavioral Effects in Brazil.' That research is the basis of Kottak's book Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture (Wadsworth 1990)--a comparative study of the nature and impact of television in Brazil and the United States. Kottak's other books include The Past in the Present: History, Ecology and Cultural Variation in Highland Madagascar (1980), Researching American Culture: A Guide for Student Anthropologists (1982) (both University of Michigan Press) and Madagascar: Society and History (1986) (Carolina Academic Press). The most recent editions (tenth) of his texts Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity and Cultural Anthropology will be published by McGraw-Hill in summer 2003 along with the first edition of Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. He is also the author of Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003) and (with Kathryn A. Kozaitis) of On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream (2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003). Conrad Kottak's articles have appeared in academic journals including American Anthropologist, Journal of Anthropological Research, American Ethnologist, Ethnology, Human Organization, and Luso-Brazilian Review. He has also written for more popular journals, including Transaction/SOCIETY, Natural History, Psychology Today, and General Anthropology. In recent research projects, Kottak and his colleagues have investigated the emergence of ecological awareness in Brazil, the social context of deforestation and biodiversity conservation in Madagascar, and popular participation in economic development planning in northeastern Brazil. Since 1999 Professor Kottak has been active in the University of Michigans Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In that capacity, for a research project entitled Media, Family, and Work in a Middle-Class Midwestern Town, Kottak has investigated how middle class families draw on various media in planning, managing, and evaluating their choices and solutions with respect to competing demands of work and family. opology: The Exploration of Human Diversity and Cultural Anthropology will be published by McGraw-Hill in summer 2003 along with the first edition of Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. He is also the author of Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003) and (with Kathryn A. Kozaitis) of On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream (2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003). Conrad Kottak's articles have appeared in academic journals including American Anthropologist, Journal of Anthropological Research, American Ethnologist, Ethnology, Human Organization, and Luso-Brazilian Review. He has also written for more popular journals, including Transaction/SOCIETY, Natural History, Psychology Today, and General Anthropology. In recent research projects, Kottak and his colleagues have investigated the emergence of ecological awareness in Brazil, the social context of deforestation and biodiversity conservation in Madagascar, and popular participation in economic development planning in northeastern Brazil. Since 1999 Professor Kottak has been active in the University of Michigans Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In that capacity, for a research project entitled Media, Family, and Work in a Middle-Class Midwestern Town, Kottak has investigated how middle class families draw on various media in planning, managing, and evaluating their choices and solutions with respect to competing demands of work and family.

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About the Author Preface Walkthrough Part One: The Dimensions of
Anthropology Chapter 1: What is Anthropology? Overview Human Adaptability
Adaptation, Variation, and Change General Anthropology Cultural Forces
Shape Human Biology The Subdisciplines of Anthropology Cultural
Anthropology Archaeological Anthropology Interesting Issues: Even
Anthropologists Get Culture Shock Biological, or Physical Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology Beyond the Classroom: The Unity of Hand and Foot
Bones for Problems in Biological Anthropology Applied Anthropology
Anthropology and Other Academic Fields Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
Anthropology and Psychology Science, Explanation, and Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 2: Applying Anthropology What is Applied Anthropology? Academic and
Applied Anthropology Theory and Practice Anthropology and Education Urban
Anthropology Urban versus Rural Medical Anthropology Beyond the Classroom:
New Life, Good Health Anthropology and Business Interesting Issues: Hot
Asset in Corporate: Anthropology Degrees Careers and Anthropology Part Two:
Physical Anthropology and Archaeology Chapter 3: Ethics and Methods in
Physical Anthropology and Archaeology Overview Ethics Methods
Multidisciplinary Approaches Primatology Anthropometry Bone Biology
Molecular Anthropology Interesting Issues: A Novel Method of Assessing Why
People Cooperate Paleoanthropology Survey and Excavation Systematic Survey
Excavation Kinds of Archaeology Dating the Past Relative Dating Absolute
Dating: Radiometric Techniques Absolute Dating: Dendrochronology Molecular
Dating Chapter 4: Evolution and Genetics Overview Evolution Genetics
Mendel's Experiments Independent Assortment and Recombination Biochemical,
or Molecular Genetics Cell Division Crossing Over Mutation Interesting
Issues: Genetic Politics Population Genetics and Mechanisms of Genetic
Evolution Natural Selection Mutations and Variety Random Genetic Drift Gene
Flow The Modern Synthesis Gradual or Rapid Change Chapter 5: Human
Variation and Adaptation Overview Race: A Discredited Concept in Biology
Races are Not Biologically Distinct Interesting Issues: American
Anthropological Association (AAA) Statement on "Race" Explaining Skin Color
Beyond the Classroom: Skin Pigmentation in Papua New Guinea Human
Biological Adaptation Genes and Disease Facial Features Size and Body Build
Lactose Tolerance Chapter 6: The Primates Overview Our Place among Primates
Homologies and Analogies Primate Tendencies Prosimians Anthropoids Beyond
the Classroom: Providing Apes Refuge: A Cultural Study of the Great Ape
Sanctuary Community Monkeys New World Monkeys Old World Monkeys Apes
Gibbons Orangutans Gorillas Chimpanzees Interesting Issues: Saving the
Orangutan Bonobos Endangered Primates Human-Primate Similarities Learning
Tools Predation and Hunting Aggression and Resources Human-Primate
Differences Sharing and Cooperation Mating and Kinship Behavioral Ecology
and Fitness Bringing it All Together: Saving the Forests Chapter 7: Primate
Evolution Overview Fossils and Chronology Early Primates Early Cenozoic
Primates Beyond the Classroom: A Behavioral Ecology Study of Two Lemur
Species Oligocene Anthropoids Miocene Hominoids Proconsul Afropithecus and
Kenyapithecus Sivapithecus Ginantopithecus Dryopithecus Oreopithecus A
Missing Link? "Toumai" Orrorin tugenensis Beyond the Classroom: Maceration
of a Canadian Lynx Chapter 8: Early Hominids Overview Chronology of Hominid
Evolution The Earliest Hominids Ardipithecus and KenyanThropus The Varied
Australopithecines Australopiethecus afarensis Gracile and Robust
Australopithecines The Australopithecines and Early Homo H. rudolfensis and
H. habilis Oldowan Tools A. garhi and Early Stone Tools Beyond the
Classroom: Hydrodynamic Sorting of Avian Skeletal Remains Chapter 9: The
Genus Homo Early Homo Interesting Issues: Headstrong Hominids Out of
Africa: Homo erectus Paleolithic Tools Adaptive Strategies of Homo erectus
The Evolution and Expansion of Homo erectus Archaic Homo sapiens The
Neandertals Cold-Apapted Neandertals The Neandertals and Modern People Homo
sapiens sapiens (AMHs) Out of Africa II Multiregional Evolution Advances in
Technology Glacial Retreat Cave Art Interesting Issues: Prehistoric Art
Treasure Is Found in French Cave The Mesolithic Beyond the Classroom:
Paleolithic Butchering at Verberie Bringing it All Together: When Did
Humans Start Acting Like Humans? Chapter 10: The First Farmers The
Neolithic The First Farmers and Herders in the Middle East Genetic Changes
and Domestication Food Production and the State Other Old World Food
Producers The African Neolithic: Nabta Playa The Neolithic in Europe and
Asia The First American Farmers America's First Immigrants The Foundations
of Food Production Early Farming in the Mexican Highlands From Early
Farming to the State Explaining the Neolithic Geography and the Spread of
Food Production Costs and Benefits Beyond the Classroom: House Construction
and Destruction Patterns of the Early Copper Age on the Great Hungarian
Plain Chapter 11: The First Cities and States The Origin of the State
Hydraulic Systems Long-Distance Trade Routes Population, War, and
Circumscription Attributes of States State Formation in the Middle East
Urban Life The Elite Level Social Ranking and Chiefdoms How Ethnography
Helps in Interpreting the Archaeological Record Advanced Chiefdoms The Rise
of the State Beyond the Classroom: The Akhenaten Temple Project Other Early
States State Formation in Mesoamerica Early Chiefdoms and Elites States in
the Valley of Mexico Why States Collapse The Mayan Decline Interesting
Issues: Pseudo-Archaeology Bringing It All Together: The Peopling of the
Pacific Part Three: Cultural Diversity Chapter 12: Ethics and Methods in
Cultural Anthropology Ethics Methods--Ethnography Ethnographic Techniques
Observation and Participant Observations Conversation, Interviewing, and
Interview Schedules The Genealogical Method Key Cultural Consultants Life
Histories Local Beliefs and Perceptions, and the Ethnographer's The
Evolution of Ethnography Problem-Oriented Ethnography Longitudinal Research
Team Research Culture, Space, and Scale Survey Research Beyond the
Classroom: Stories from the Women Domestics of the Yucatan Chapter 13:
Culture What is Culture? Culture Is Learned Culture Is Shared Culture Is
Symbolic Interesting Issues: Touching, Affection, Love, and Sex Culture and
Nature Culture Is All-Encompassing Culture Is Integrated Culture Can Be
Adaptive and Maladaptive Culture and the Individual: Agency and Practice
Levels of Culture Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, and Human Rights
Universality, Generality, and Particularity Universality Generality
Particularity: Patterns of Culture Beyond the Classroom: Folklore Reveals
Ethos of Heating Plant Workers Mechanisms of Cultural Change Globalization
Chapter 14: Ethnicity and Race Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity Status Shifting
Race Social Race Beyond the Classroom: Perceptions of Race and Skin Color
on an American College Campus Hypodescent: Race in the United States Race
in the Census Not Us: Race in Japan Phenotype and Fluidity: Race in Brazil
Stratification and "Intelligence" Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Nationalities
Nationalities and Imagined Communities Peaceful Coexistence Assimilation
The Plural Society Interesting Issues: Ethnic Nationalism Runs Wild
Multiculturalism and Ethnic Identity Roots of Ethnic Conflict Prejudice and
Discrimination Chips in the Mosaic Aftermaths of Oppression Chapter 15:
Language and Communication What Is Language? Animal Communication Call
Systems Sign Language The Origin of Language Nonverbal Communication The
Structure of Language Speech Sounds Language, Thought, and Culture
Interesting Issues: Do Midwesterners Have Accents? The Sapir-Whorf
Hypothesis Focal Vocabulary Meaning Sociolinguistics Linguistic Diversity
Gender Speech Contrasts Language and Status Position Stratification Black
English Vernacular (BEV), a.k.a. "Ebonics" Historical Linguistics Beyond
the Classroom: Cybercommunication in Collegespace Bringing It All Together:
Canada: Unity and Diversity in Culture and Language Chapter 16: Making a
Living Adaptive Strategies Foraging Beyond the Classroom: Integrating
Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Analytic Subsistence Data: A Case Study
from Patagonia, South America Correlates of Foraging Cultivation
Horticulture Agriculture The Cultivation Continuum Intensification: People
and the Environment Pastoralism Modes of Production Production in
Nonindustrial Societies Means of Production Alienation in Industrial
Economies Economizing and Maximization Interesting Issues: Scarcity and the
Betsileo Alternative Ends Distribution, Exchange The Market Principle
Redistribution Reciprocity Coexistence of Exchange Principles Potlatching
Chapter 17: Political Systems What Is "the Political?" Types and Trends
Bands and Tribes Foraging Bands Tribal Cultivators The Village Head The
"Big Man" Pantribal Sodalities and Age Grades Nomadic Politics Beyond the
Classroom: Perspectives on Group Membership Chiefdoms Political and
Economic Systems in Chiefdoms Social Status in Chiefdoms Status Systems in
Chiefdoms and States States Population Control Judiciary Enforcement Fiscal
Sy stems Social Control: Politics, Shame, and Sorcery Chapter 18: Families,
Kinship, and Descent Families Nuclear and Extended Families Industrialism
and Family Organization Changes in North American Kinship The Family among
Foragers Descent Descent Groups Interesting Issues: Social Security,
Kinship Style Lineages, Clans, and Residence Rules Ambilineal Descent
Family versus Descent Kinship Calculation Genealogical Kin Types and Kin
Terms Kinship Terminology Lineal Terminology Bifurcate Merging Terminology
Generational Terminology Bifurcate Collateral Terminology Chapter 19:
Marriage Incest and Exogamy Explaining the Taboo Instinctive Horror
Biological Degeneration Attempt and Contempt Marry Out or Die Out Endogamy
Caste Beyond the Classroom: Human Mate Preference in Matrimonial
Advertisements from Gujarat, India Royal Incest Marital Rights and Same-Sex
Marriage Marriage as Group Alliance Bridewealth and Dowry Interesting
Issues: Love and Marriage Durable Alliances Divorce Plural Marriages
Polygyny Polyandry Chapter 20: Gender Sex and Gender Recurrent Gender
Patterns Gender among Foragers Gender among Horticulturalists Reduced
Gender Stratification---Matrilineal, Matrilocal Societies Reduced Gender
Stratification---Matrifocal Societies Increased Gender
Stratification---Patrilineal-Patrilocal Societies Gender among
Agriculturalists Patriarchy and Violence Gender and Industrialism The
Feminization of Poverty Sexual Orientation Interesting Issues: Hidden
Women, Public Men---Public Women, Hidden Men Bringing It All Together: The
Basques Chapter 21: Religion What Is Religion? Origins, Functions, and
Expressions of Religion Animism Mana and Taboo Magic and Religion Anxiety,
Control, Solace Rituals Rites of Passage Totemism Religion and Cultural
Ecology Sacred Cattle in India Social Control Beyond the Classroom: Ewe
Traditional and Biomedical Healing Practices in Ghana's Volta Region Kinds
of Religion Religion in States Christian Values World Religions Religion
and Change Revitalization Movements Syncretisms Antimodernism and
Fundamentalism A New Age Secular Rituals Chapter 22: The Arts What Is Art?
Art and Religion Locating Art Art and Individuality The Work of Art Art,
Society, and Culture The Cultural Transmission of the Arts Interesting
Issues: I'll Get You, My Pretty, and Your Little R2 The Artistic Career
Beyond the Classroom: Capoeira: The Afro-Brazilian Art of Unity and
Survival Continuity and Change Part Four: The Changing World Chapter 23:
The Modern World System The Emergence of the World System Industrialization
Causes of the Industrial Revolution Stratification Industrial
Stratification Asian Factory Women Open and Closed Class System Beyond the
Classroom: The Residue of Apartheid in Southern Africa The World System
Today Interesting Issues: The American Periphery Industrial Degradation
Chapter 24: Colonialism and Development Colonialism Imperialism British
Colonialism French Colonialism Colonialism and Identity Postcolonial
Studies Development Neoliberalism The Second World Communism Postsocialist
Transitions Development Anthropology The Greening of Java Equity Strategies
for Innovation Overinnovation Underdifferentitation Third World Models
Chapter 25: Cultural Exchange and Survival Acculturation Contact and
Domination Development and Environmentalism Interesting Issues: Voices of
the Rainforest Religious Change Resistance and Survival Beyond the
Classroom: Forging Activist Identities in the Kalaupapa Community of
Leprosy Patients Weapons of the Weak Cultural Imperialism Interesting
Issues: Using Modern Technology to Preserve Linguistic and Cultural
Diversity Making and Remaking Culture Popular Culture Indigenizing Popular
Culture A World System of Images A Transnational Culture of Consumption
People in Motion The Continuance of Diversity Bringing It All Together: The
Biology and Culture of Overconsumption Appendix 1: A History of Theories in
Anthropology Appendix 2: Ethics and Anthropology Appendix 3: American
Popular Culture Bibliography Glossary Credits Name Index Subject Index