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Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader

Author(s): Paul McDowell

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2016

Pages: 322

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Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader provides a starting point for 20 cultures. The descriptions of each culture are introduced to the reader with each chapter ending with recommended videos and literatures that lead to further resources. The main continents are represented including the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Central, Southern, and East Asia.

Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader provides the raw material for understanding human behavior:

 

  • the diverse ways of making a living
  • the cooperation necessary to organize work
  • how exchanges of goods and services take place
  • the various concepts of ownership and property
  • the means of social control through governance and law
  • the various beliefs in the supernatural
  • how different cultures have come to terms with economic and political globalization

Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader represents different cultures around the world with different degrees of complexity. Included are:

 

 

  • The foraging bands
  • The tribal peoples
  • The chiefdoms
  • The state level societies ranging from the agrarian to the empires

 

 

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Case Studies
Chapter 2 Cultural Anthropology: A Reference Guide

PART I: NORTH AMERICA
 

Chapter 3 The Inuit: People of the Arctic
Chapter 4 Peoples of the Northwest Pacific Coast: Kwakiutl, Haida, and their Neighbors

PART II: LATIN AMERICA
 

Chapter 5 Mexico: From the Aztecs to the Present
Chapter 6 The Mayan Culture Area
Chapter 7 Andean America
Chapter 8 Amazonia and the Orinoco Region

PART III: MIDDLE EAST
 

Chapter 9 Egypt: Kingdom to Nation-State Along the Nile
Chapter 10 Mesopotamia to Iraq: Cradle to Grave of Western Culture

PART IV: EAST ASIA
 

Chapter 11 China: World Power: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 12 Tibet: A Buddhist Theocracy
Chapter 13 Japan: From Feudal to Corporate State

PART V: CENTRAL, SOUTH, AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
 

Chapter 14 Central Asia: Land of the Equestrian Nomadic Herdsmen
Chapter 15 Afghanistan: Graveyards of Empires
Chapter 16 India: A Culture of Futures Past
Chapter 17 Bali: A Study in Cultural Integration

PART VI: MELANESIA
 

Chapter 18 Papua New Guinea: Last of the World’s Tribal Peoples
Chapter 19 Trobriand Islands: Archipelago of the Kula Ring

PART VII: AFRICA
 

Chapter 20 West Africa: The Homeland of Afro-Americans
Chapter 21 East African Pastoralists: The Case of the Turkana and Masai
Chapter 22 Peoples of the Kalahari and Their Neighbors: The Ju/’hoani or !King San of Southern Africa

Paul McDowell
Paul McDowell, Ph.D., teaches anthropology at Santa Barbara City College and several other community colleges across Southern California. He has conducted fieldwork in Guatemala and taught all four subfields of anthropology for more than 25 years.

Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader provides a starting point for 20 cultures. The descriptions of each culture are introduced to the reader with each chapter ending with recommended videos and literatures that lead to further resources. The main continents are represented including the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Central, Southern, and East Asia.

Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader provides the raw material for understanding human behavior:

 

  • the diverse ways of making a living
  • the cooperation necessary to organize work
  • how exchanges of goods and services take place
  • the various concepts of ownership and property
  • the means of social control through governance and law
  • the various beliefs in the supernatural
  • how different cultures have come to terms with economic and political globalization

Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader represents different cultures around the world with different degrees of complexity. Included are:

 

 

  • The foraging bands
  • The tribal peoples
  • The chiefdoms
  • The state level societies ranging from the agrarian to the empires

 

 

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Case Studies
Chapter 2 Cultural Anthropology: A Reference Guide

PART I: NORTH AMERICA
 

Chapter 3 The Inuit: People of the Arctic
Chapter 4 Peoples of the Northwest Pacific Coast: Kwakiutl, Haida, and their Neighbors

PART II: LATIN AMERICA
 

Chapter 5 Mexico: From the Aztecs to the Present
Chapter 6 The Mayan Culture Area
Chapter 7 Andean America
Chapter 8 Amazonia and the Orinoco Region

PART III: MIDDLE EAST
 

Chapter 9 Egypt: Kingdom to Nation-State Along the Nile
Chapter 10 Mesopotamia to Iraq: Cradle to Grave of Western Culture

PART IV: EAST ASIA
 

Chapter 11 China: World Power: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 12 Tibet: A Buddhist Theocracy
Chapter 13 Japan: From Feudal to Corporate State

PART V: CENTRAL, SOUTH, AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
 

Chapter 14 Central Asia: Land of the Equestrian Nomadic Herdsmen
Chapter 15 Afghanistan: Graveyards of Empires
Chapter 16 India: A Culture of Futures Past
Chapter 17 Bali: A Study in Cultural Integration

PART VI: MELANESIA
 

Chapter 18 Papua New Guinea: Last of the World’s Tribal Peoples
Chapter 19 Trobriand Islands: Archipelago of the Kula Ring

PART VII: AFRICA
 

Chapter 20 West Africa: The Homeland of Afro-Americans
Chapter 21 East African Pastoralists: The Case of the Turkana and Masai
Chapter 22 Peoples of the Kalahari and Their Neighbors: The Ju/’hoani or !King San of Southern Africa

Paul McDowell
Paul McDowell, Ph.D., teaches anthropology at Santa Barbara City College and several other community colleges across Southern California. He has conducted fieldwork in Guatemala and taught all four subfields of anthropology for more than 25 years.