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Tables of Contents for Anthropology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Boxes
xi
Preface
xiii
About the Authors
xxiii
PART I INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
What Is Anthropology?
1
15
The Scope of Anthropology
1
1
The Holistic Approach
2
1
The Anthropological Curiosity
3
1
Fields of Anthropology
3
7
Applied Anthropology
10
1
The Relevance of Anthropology
11
2
Summary
13
1
Glossary Terms
14
1
Critical Questions
14
1
Internet Exercises
15
1
PART II HUMAN EVOLUTION: BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL
Evolution
16
15
The Principles of Natural Selection
17
2
Heredity
19
4
Sources of Variability
23
2
The Origin of Species
25
1
Natural Selection of Behavioral Traits
26
2
Summary
28
1
Glossary Terms
29
1
Critical Questions
29
1
Internet Exercises
30
1
Primate Evolution: From Early Primates to Hominids
31
21
Common Primate Traits
31
3
Distinctive Human Traits
34
4
Interpreting the Fossil Record
38
2
The Emergence of Primates
40
4
The Emergence of Anthropoids
44
1
The Miocene Anthropoids: Monkeys, Apes, and Hominids
45
2
The Divergence of Hominids from the Other Hominoids
47
1
Summary
48
2
Glossary Terms
50
1
Critical Questions
50
1
Internet Exercises
50
2
Early Hominids and Their Cultures
52
21
Trends in Hominid Evolution
52
6
Australopithecines: The Earliest Definite Hominids
58
4
Early Species of Homo
62
1
Early Hominid Cultures
62
4
Homo erectus
66
1
Homo erectus Cultures
67
3
Summary
70
1
Glossary Terms
71
1
Critical Questions
72
1
Internet Exercises
72
1
The Emergence of Homo sapiens and Their Cultures
73
20
The Transition from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens
73
1
Neandertals and Other Definite Homo sapiens
74
1
Middle Paleolithic Cultures
75
4
The Emergence of Modern Humans
79
3
Upper Paleolithic Cultures
82
6
The Earliest Humans and Their Cultures in the New World
88
2
Summary
90
1
Glossary Terms
91
1
Critical Questions
92
1
Internet Exercises
92
1
Human Variation
93
20
Processes in Human Variation
93
3
Physical Variation in Human Populations
96
8
Race and Racism
104
7
The Future of Human Variation
111
1
Summary
111
1
Glossary Terms
112
1
Critical Questions
112
1
Internet Exercises
112
1
The Emergence of Food Production and the Rise of States
113
33
Preagricultural Developments
114
5
The Domestication of Plants and Animals
119
7
Why Did Food Production Develop?
126
2
Consequences of the Rise of Food Production
128
2
Origins of Cities and States
130
1
Archaeological Inferences About Civilization
131
1
Cities and States in Southern Iraq
132
2
Cities and States in Mesoamerica
134
1
The City and State of Teotihuacan
134
2
The First Cities and States in Other Areas
136
1
Theories About the Origin of the State
137
4
The Decline and Collapse of States
141
2
Summary
143
1
Glossary Terms
144
1
Critical Questions
145
1
Internet Exercises
145
1
PART III CULTURAL VARIATION
The Concept of Culture
146
20
Defining Features of Culture
146
4
Attitudes That Hinder the Study of Cultures
150
1
Cultural Relativism
151
2
Describing a Culture
153
5
Some Assumptions about Culture
158
5
Summary
163
2
Glossary Terms
165
1
Critical Questions
165
1
Internet Exercises
165
1
Communication and Language
166
31
Communication
167
3
The Origins of Language
170
4
Structural Linguistics
174
5
Historical Linguistics
179
4
The Processes of Linguistic Divergence
183
1
Relationships Between Language and Culture
184
5
The Ethnography of Speaking
189
5
Summary
194
1
Glossary Terms
195
1
Critical Questions
196
1
Internet Exercises
196
1
Getting Food
197
17
Food Collection
198
3
Food Production
201
6
Environmental Restraints on Food-Getting
207
3
The Origin, Spread, and Intensification of Food Production
210
2
Summary
212
1
Glossary Terms
213
1
Critical Questions
213
1
Internet Exercises
213
1
Economics and Social Stratification
214
36
The Allocation of Resources
214
4
The Conversion of Resources
218
7
The Distribution of Goods and Services
225
11
Social Stratification
236
7
Slavery
243
2
The Emergence of Stratification
245
1
Summary
246
2
Glossary Terms
248
1
Critical Questions
248
1
Internet Exercises
248
2
Sex, Gender, and Culture
250
22
Physique and Physiology
251
1
Gender Roles
251
4
Relative Contribution to Subsistence
255
3
Political Leadership and Warfare
258
2
The Relative Status of Women
260
2
Personality Differences
262
3
Sexuality
265
4
Summary
269
1
Glossary Terms
270
1
Critical Questions
270
1
Internet Exercises
271
1
Marriage and the Family
272
24
Marriage
272
1
Why Is Marriage Universal?
273
3
How Does One Marry?
276
3
Restrictions on Marriage: The Universal Incest Taboo
279
4
Whom Should One Marry?
283
3
How Many Does One Marry?
286
3
The Family
289
4
Summary
293
1
Glossary Terms
294
1
Critical Questions
294
1
Internet Exercises
295
1
Marital Residence and Kinship
296
26
Patterns of Marital Residence
297
1
Explanations of Variation in Residence
298
4
The Structure of Kinship
302
2
Bilateral Kinship
304
2
Unilineal Descent
306
7
Ambilineal Systems
313
1
Kinship Terminology
314
6
Summary
320
1
Glossary Terms
320
1
Critical Questions
321
1
Internet Exercises
321
1
Political Life: Social Order and Disorder
322
24
Variation in Types of Political Organization
323
10
Variation in Political Process
333
10
Summary
343
1
Glossary Terms
344
1
Critical Questions
344
1
Internet Exercises
345
1
Religion and Magic
346
17
Variation in Religious Beliefs
347
5
Variation in Religious Practices
352
6
Religion and Adaptation
358
3
Summary
361
1
Glossary Terms
362
1
Critical Questions
362
1
Internet Exercises
362
1
PART IV ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE MODERN WORLD
Applied Anthropology and Social Problems
363
22
Applied and Practicing Anthropology
364
4
Global Social Problems: Basic Research and Possible Solutions
368
14
Making the World Better
382
1
Summary
383
1
Glossary Terms
384
1
Critical Questions
384
1
Internet Exercises
384
1
Glossary
385
11
Notes
396
41
Index
437
9
Index to the Notes
446