Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global SystemThis introductory text introduces basic concepts in cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues throughout human history. Cultural materials are presented in integrated ethnographic case studies organized by cultural and geographic areas to show how ideological, social organization, and material features fit together in specific sociocultural systems. Bodley explicitly seeks a balance between ecological-materialist and cultural-ideological explanations of sociocultural systems, while stressing the importance of individual power-seeking and human agency. Part One examines domestic-scale, autonomous tribal cultures. Part Two presents politically organized, class-based civilizations and ancient empires in the imperial world. Part Three surveys global, industrial, market-based civilizations in the contemporary commercial world. Cultural Anthropology uniquely challenges students to consider the big questions about the nature of cultural systems. |
Contents
THE WORLD BEFORE THE STATE | 1 |
A Scale and Power Perspective | 3 |
Villagers of the Rain Forest | 25 |
Mobile Foragers for 50000 Years | 67 |
Tribal Pastoralists | 99 |
Ch05 CrossCultural Perspectives on the Tribal World | 129 |
THE END OF EQUALITY | 179 |
From Leaders to Rulers | 181 |
Ch10 The Capitalist World System | 333 |
An American Plutocracy | 381 |
Ch12 An Unsustainable Global System | 419 |
LOCAL TO GLOBAL | 461 |
Progress of the Victims | 463 |
Ch14 Small Nations Solving Global Problems | 503 |
Ch15 Envisioning a Sustainable World | 543 |
Glossary | 567 |
Mesopotamia and the Andes | 217 |
Ch08The Chinese Great Tradition | 263 |
Ch09 Hinduism and Islam in South Asia | 293 |
GLOBAL CAPITALISM | 331 |
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About the Author | 631 |
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