John H. Bodley

Cultural Anthropology

Tribes, States, and the Global System

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Produktbeschreibung

John H. Bodley's Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global System, Seventh Edition, is intended for the introduction to cultural anthropology course taught at the freshman/sophomore level.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seventh Edition
• Seitenzahl: 546
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9781538127902
• ISBN-10: 1538127903
• Artikelnr.: 57570978

Autorenporträt

By John H. Bodley

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction 1. Adventures in the Field: Episode One 2. Culture: A
Scale & Power Perspective Part II. The Tribal World: Before the State 3.
Australian Aborigines: Mobile Foragers for 50,000 Years 4. Native
Amazonians: Villagers of the Rain Forest 5. African Cattle Peoples: Tribal
Pastoralists 6. Tribal World Mind, Body, and Sour: Cross-Cultural
Perspectives Part III. The Imperial World States: The End of Equality 7.
Pacific Islanders: From Leaders to Rulers 8. Ancient Empires: Elite Power
in Mesopotamia and the Andes 9. Asian Great Traditions: Ideological
Foundations 10. Scale Limits: The Breakdown of States Part IV. The
Commercial Global System 11. Europe and the Commercial World 12. American
Plutocracy: Capitalism in the United States Part V. Conclusions 13. An
Unsustainable and Impoverished World 14. Envisioning a Sustainable World