This book provides students with a statement of the basic concepts of cultural anthropology with a view to helping them to understand the literature in the discipline. This brief text is designed to be used with ethnographic material. Competing theoretical explanations are presented in an unbiased fashion. Many ethnographic examples are presented as is anthropological work in politics, economics, gender, art, mythology, cultural transformation and anthropology in the modern world. There is new material on fieldwork reflecting the new view of the field work experience as a joint venture of fieldworker and informant and the concern with reflexivity. There is also an expanded discussion on gender including material from recent books which deal with conceptualization of gender roles, women and ritual power. An instructor's manual/test bank is also available.

The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Politics & Social Sciences

Rosman, Abraham

Rubel, Paula G.

Social Sciences

Mcgraw-Hill College

This brief, affordable introduction to cultural anthropology is designed to be used with ethnographies or other supplemental readings. The Tapestry of Culture was written to give students a concise and up-to-date conceptual framework with which to understand classic ethnographies as well as those being written today. The distinguishing conceptual approach of this text is symbolic, emphasizing the arts and symbols of culture. For example, there is a whole chapter devoted to "Myths, Legends, and Folktales (chapter 11), as well as "Religion and the Supernatural" (chapter 10). Rosman and Rubel also examine anthropology and the concern with meaning from a postmodernist perspective, looking at the sweeping changes in our world resulting from ethnicity and ethnic identity, technology, and conceptualizations of gender and gender roles, among other issues.

The Tapestry of Culture

"The Tapestry of Culture" is a brief, affordable introduction to cultural anthropology, providing them a conceptual framework with which to read and understand both classic and contemporary ethnographies. This new edition maintains its symbolic conceptual approach with an emphasis on the arts and symbols of culture, including such chapters as "Myths, Legends, and Folktales" (Ch. 11) and "The Artistic Dimension" (Ch. 12), as well as a discussion of the relationship between language and symbolism.

McGraw-Hill, 2000

The Tapestry of Culture is a brief, affordable introduction to cultural anthropology, providing them a conceptual framework with which to read and understand both classic and contemporary ethnographies. This new edition maintains its symbolic conceptual approach with an emphasis on the arts and symbols of culture, including such chapters as “Myths, Legends, and Folktales” (Ch. 11) and “The Artistic Dimension” (Ch. 12), as well as a discussion of the relationship between language and symbolism.

The Tapestry of Culture with Free PowerWeb: Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

The Tapestry of Culture is a brief, affordable introduction to cultural anthropology, designed to provide a conceptual framework with which to read and understand both classic and contemporary ethnographies. The text uses a comparative approach and it emphasizes the interpretation of symbols and the meaning of things. The new edition has revised the presentation of material and offers expanded, bulleted chapter summaries, more clearly defined and highlighted key terms, additional headings and suggested readings and web sites. A revised chapter 1 gives students a clear introduction to get them started in the course. In addition, numerous chapter-by-chapter content changes have been added throughout the book including splitting a former chapter into two new chapters to increase the coverage of applied anthropology in a new chapter 13 and new material on Afghanistan in chapter 15..ter 15..

Rubel, Paula

The potlatch and the Northwest Coast have been subjects of in- 
terest in anthropology since the beginning of the discipline. The data from this area have been the arena of theoretical discussions since the time of Boas. In this book, the authors demonstrate the value of a structural approach in answering some of the perennial questions posed by the rich body of data on the Northwest Coast collected by generations of anthropologists.

Feasting With Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange Among Northwest Coast Societies

Waveland Pr Inc.

Aliens on Our Shores is a deep dive into the mutual perceptions of Melanesian peoples, egalitarian societies unknown to Europeans for thousands of years, and successive waves of European explorers, traders, plantation owners, missionaries, and eventual conquerors. This anthropological history makes use of existing information on political, social, and cultural organization of the people of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, supplemented by the authors' own comparative skills and original ethnographic fieldwork. Professor Rubel and Professor Rosman have gone through the archeological record, to understand who the New Irelanders were before contact with Europeans. They have searched travelers' reports for information on how the first 250 years of contact were interpreted, understood, or misunderstood, and strategies accordingly deployed -- by both parties to the encounters. They strive to find New Irelanders' voice and agency in travelers' detailed accounts. And they explore the ways that Europeans used long-standing myths and stereotypes (Noble Savage, Wild Man, Cannibal, Utopia) as they sought to build capital in world markets. This detailed history shows how capitalism and colonialism eventually demolished the political autonomy of New Ireland peoples who seemed for more than two centuries to be in control of their contact situation.

Aliens on Our Shores: An Anthropological History of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea 1616 to 1914

History

Australia & Oceania

Development Resources Press

The most exciting thing about anthropology is that it enables the student to become acquainted with people of different cultures. The Tapestry of Culture provides the student with the basic concepts necessary to understand these different cultures while showing that cultural variations occur within certain limits. Though the forces of globalization have caused cultures of the world around us to become increasingly similar, the book shows that people nevertheless cling to ethnic identities, and their cultural distinctiveness. The tenth edition of this popular textbook incorporates new material throughout, such as ethnographic examples in every chapter; strengthened discussions of gender, transnationalism, and globalization; and more. To enhance the experience of both instructors and students, the tenth edition is accompanied by a learning package that includes an instructor’s manual with outlines, key terms, discussion questions, lists of films and other resources, and more; a test bank; and a companion website.

Weisgrau, Maxine

Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

When we think about society and culture, often we think of our own culture - the culture in which we were raised or currently live - as the default. The eleventh edition of The Tapestry of Culture uses anthropological tools to translate the concepts, ideas, and behaviors of other cultures into language recognizable by today's students. The book's comparative approach balances the history of ethnography, fieldwork, and anthropological with today's globalized world, including the impact of climate change, social movements, social media and technology, global health issues, and shifting political landscapes. New to the Eleventh Edition &#61623;New Chapter 12, "Global Health and Wellness," examines the historical, political, and cultural issues that shape disease and health including inequalities in access to physical and mental health services, the delivery of health care services, and health intervention strategies &#61623;New Chapter 11, "Spaces and Places of Creative Expression," explores how social media and internet technologies play a major role in how contemporary audiences view and understand creativity including music, dance, theater, film, painting and other performance styles &#61623;Expanded discussion of the cultural construction of gender and sexuality, as well as LGBTQ issues in activism explores gender and sexuality through queer studies and in postcolonial settings (Chapter 7) &#61623;New discussion of critical race theory highlights its contributions to analyzing multiple forms of racism and discrimination while providing an exploration of the challenges of multiculturalism in contexts of nationality, ethnicity, and political representation (Chapter 14) &#61623;New discussions of environmental anthropology, political ecology, climate change inequality, social movements, globalization, and transnationalism highlight these contemporary issues as subjects of anthropological inquiry (Chapter 1)

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The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

The Tapestry of Culture

The Tapestry of Culture

The Tapestry of Culture with Free PowerWeb: Cultural Anthropology

The Tapestry of Culture

Feasting With Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange Among Northwest Coast Societies

Aliens on Our Shores: An Anthropological History of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea 1616 to 1914

The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology