Introducing anthropology : [a graphic guide] /: [a graphic guide]. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Anthropology
• Further Information: Note: Merryl Wyn Davies & Piero.
• Authors: Davies, Merryl Wyn
• Other Names: Piero illustrator.
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Title Page; Copyright; What is Anthropology?; What is "Primitive"?; Studying People; Anthropology's Big Problem; The Other; The Changing Problem; The Origins of Anthropology; The Founding Fathers; The Hidden Agenda; The Age of Reconnaissance; "Fidelity to the Old"; The Question of Human Rights; The Jesuit Relations; Major Trends in Western Thought; The Continuity of Tradition; The Derived Minor Trends; Imperialism; The Complicity of Anthropology; Violations of Ethics; Back to the Roots; The Indispensable Primitive; Speculating on the Invention; What Came First?; Living Relics Seen from the ArmchairTheories of Evolutionism; Integrating the Biological and Social; The Theory of Diffusionism; The Race Swindle; Field Studies; The Anthropological Tree; Physical Anthropology; Polygenesis vs. Monogenesis; Human Ecology and Genetics; The Rise of Sociobiology; A Refocus of Race in Gene Theory; Other Links with Early Anthropology; Archaeology and Material Culture; Anthropological Linguistics; Social or Cultural Anthropology; What is Culture?; Increasing Specializations; The Bedrock of Ethnography; Writing the Exotic; Franz Boas; Bronislaw Malinowski; Fieldwork Human Ecology in FieldworkEcological Anthropology; The Question of Economy; The Potlatch Ceremony; The "Big Men" of New Guinea; The Kula Exchange; Economic Anthropology; Exchange and Trading Networks; The Formalist-Substantivist Debate; Marxist Anthropology; Marxism's Evolutionary View; The Household Unit; The Forms of Family; The Marriage Links; Marriage Contract Payments; The Study of Kinship; Kinship Codes; Classificatory Kinship; Fictive Kinship; Descent Theory; Marriage and Residence Rules; The Idiom of Kinship; What's the "Use" of Kinship?; Alliance Theory and Incest Taboo Structures in MindForms of Elementary Structures; Does Alliance Theory Work?; Politics and Law; Further Examples ...; The Terminological Approach; Political Anthropology; Age Grade Societies; Synchronic vs. Diachronic Views; Other Social Stratifications; Transacting Identity; Problems of Ethnicity; Colonialism; Anti-capitalist Anthropology; Anthropology of Law; Mechanisms for Resolving Disputes; Religion; Shamanism and Cargo Cults; Sacred and Profane; The Anthropology of Magic; The Debate on Belief; Examining Ritual; Rites of Passage; The Study of Myth; Claude Lévi-Strauss Binary Oppositions and StructureSymbols and Communication; Symbols and the Social Process; Actor, Message and Code; Symbolism and New Perspectives; Anthropology of Art; Visual Anthropology; Disappearing World; A New Branch or an Old Root?; Writing Up the Field; Writing in the Present; Auto-Anthropology; The Dual/Duel of Tepoztlan; Tepoztlan Revisited; Is Anthropology a Science?; A Pretended Science; The Indians are Off the Reservation; Who Speaks for the Indian?; White Man as God; The Myth of Authority; Event Horizon; Self-critical Anthropology; A Hero of Anthropology
• Publisher Details: London : Icon
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 301; Anthropology; Anthropology; Anthropologie; anthropology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Anthropology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848318762; 1848318766
• Related ISBNs: 9781840463644
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.