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All chapters close with "Summary" and "Key Terms." 1.StudyingAnthropology. What Is Anthropology? Culture with a Big "C."Characteristics of Culture. The Perspective of Anthropology.Anthropology, Culture Change, and Globalization. 2.Studying Cultures.Perspectives on Cultures. Culture, Cognition, and Language. DoingEthnography: Fieldwork. 3.The Early History of Anthropological Thought:Unilineal Evolution and Diffusion. The Classic Phase of AnthropologicalThought, 1900-1970. Contemporary Theory in Cultural Anthropology.Understanding the Interaction of Changing Cultural Systems: PoliticalEcology. 4.Culture in America. Capitalism and Democratic Politics.The Origins of Democratic Capitalism (Community). The Modern AmericanState: Mass Democracy and Pluralist Society. Individualism in AmericanSociety. Globalization and Our Postmodern Society. Anthropology,Ethnography, and Research on American Social Issues. The Family, Sex, andGender in Modern Societies. 5.Bands and Tribes: Remote Peripheries.Hunter-Gatherer Bands: Existing Outside of Civilization. Tribes of thePeriphery. 6.Chiefdoms and Pre-Modern States: Core-Periphery Relations.Chiefdoms. The Rise of Chiefdoms and States. The Dynamics of ArchaicStates and Empires. The Origin of Feudalism in Ancient Europe. 7.TheModern World: Capitalism, World Systems, and Globalization. TheMercantilist Roots of Capitalism. The Industrial Revolution and the Riseof Capitalism. The Rise of Modern Democratic Capitalism.Anti-Capitalist Revolutions. The Globalization of the World System.8.Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict, and Social Movements. Ethnicity and EthnicIdentity. Contemporary Social Movements. Multiculturalism andIndigenous Rights: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. FromAnti-Capitalist to Pro-Capitalist Movements. 9.Africa: Overcoming aColonial Legacy. Africa and Anthropology in the Twentieth Century. TheGeography and Ethnography of Africa. Political Ecology, Trade, and EmpireBuilding. The Emergence of Slave Trade Societies in the West. TheHeritage of Colonialism. Regional War and Ethnic Conflict. TheDemocratic Transition in South Africa. 10.The Middle East: Ethnicity, Oil,and Conflict. Political Ecology and Cultural Diversity: An HistoricalOverview. The Rise of Independent States in the Middle East.Modernization and Islamic Fundamentalism. 11.Asia: The Emerging Tigers.Changing Ideas about Asia. Human Ecology and Cultural Diversity. China:From Confucianism to Communism. Modernizing India: The Response toColonialism. Colonial Rule. Indonesia: An Emerging Tiger. ChangingVietnam: Another Tiger Emerging? Japan: The Leading Asian Tiger.12.Latin America: Political Bosses, Dependency, and Democratic Reform.From Tribes to States in Mesoamerica. The Emergence of Civilizations inthe Andes. The Invasion and Its Aftermath. The Colonial Period. ThePeriod of Caudillos in Latin America: 1810-1930. Dependency, Revolution,and the Rise of State Capitalism. Indigenous Strategies of CulturalSurvival. 13.Global Problems, International Development, and Anthropologyin the Third Millennium. Global Problems. International Development andDevelopment Anthropology. International Development Aid. SustainableDevelopment. Development Anthropology and the Anthropology of Development.Glossary. References. Name Index. Subject Index.