Social and Cultural Anthropology for the 21st Century: Connected Worlds

ISBN-13: 9781138829121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Marzia Balzani; Niko Besnier

Opis

A lively, accessible, and wide-ranging introduction to socio-cultural anthropology for undergraduates that draws on a wide range of ethnographies to showcase how anthropological fieldwork and analysis can help us to understand the contemporary world in all its complexity and variety.

Spis treści

Preface ; 1 Society and culture in the 21st century ; 2 Anthropologists at work ; 3 Kinship ; 4 Marriage ; 5 Gender, sex, and sexuality ; 6 The body ; 7 The senses ; 8 The life cycle ; 9 Gifts and exchange ; 10 Religion ; 11 Rank, caste, and social class ; 12 State, nation, and citizenship ; 13 Mobility and transnationalism ; 14 Media and the technological transformation of social relations ; 15 The environment