CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE, Third Edition is a sophisticated synthesis of social and cultural anthropology. Keesing was concerned with the political and ethical implications of anthropological fieldwork and was sensitive to the global conditions of inequality caused by the spread of capitalist relations of production. Thus, his book is more "political" than other introductory texts in the field. Keesing was also committed to the belief that students should not merely memorize terms and theories, but should also be challenged to ponder the deep questions raised by human diversity. Roger Keesing's untimely death in 1992 necessitated that a co-author execute his planned revision. Dr. Andrew Strathern was chosen because, like Keesing, his training is in the British social anthropological tradition, his fieldwork has concentrated on the Pacific, and his recent teaching experience has acquainted him with American cultural anthropology. In this revision, Dr. Strathern preserved Keesing's vision, arguments, and the ethnographies presented as illustrations of Keesing's theories, while also examining each sentence to determine whether its assertions needed to be updated, modified, or abandoned. Small changes made in this way incorporated a larger aim of updating and recasting the book to better fit and reflect a world 20 years since publication of the first edition.
| ISBN | 0030475821 | | Pages | 576 | | ISBN13 | 9780030475825
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 1044 | | Imprint | Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc | | Published in | Belmont, CA | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 236 | | Publication date | 14 Dec 1997 | | Width (mm) | 185 | | Library of Congress | 97074500 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY | 305.8 | | Academic level | Undergraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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Preface. List of Cases. Part I: Culture, Society, and the Individual. 1. The Anthropological Approach. 2. Culture and People: Some Basic Concepts. 3. Language and Communication. 4. Culture and the Individual. Part II: Tribal Peoples: Toward a Systematic View. 5. The Tribal World as Mosaic, as Ladder, and as System. 6. Modes of Subsistence, Modes of Adaptation. 7. How Cultures Change. Part III: The Tribal World: The Legacy of Human Diversity. 8. Economic Systems. 9. Kinship, Descent, and Social Structure. 10. Marriage, Family, and Community. 11. Power and Politics. 12. Gendered Lives. 13. Structures of Inequality. 14. Law and Social Control. 15. Religion: Ritual, Myth, and Cosmos. 16. The Integration of Societies, the Structure of Cultures. Part IV: Anthropology and the Present. 17. Response to Cataclysm: The Tribal World and the Expansion of the West. 18. Peasants. 19. Colonialism and Postcolonialism. 20. Cities. 21. Social Science and the Postcolonial World. 22. Toward Human Survival. Postscript. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
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