Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and 6th ed 2017 Bodley torrent

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TITLE: Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global System,
6th edition (2017)
AUTHOR: John H. Bodley
ISBN-13: 9781442265417
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DESCRIPTION: John Bodley’s Cultural Anthropology provides students with the anthropological tools to question and understand their own culture and the world. The sixth edition of this dynamic book has been updated and revised throughout, with a shorter length and a more streamlined focus. Updates include material on China and Hindu South Asia combined into a single chapter, a new chapter assessing the imperial world and the breakdown of states, and new examples throughout.

In this introduction to the basic concepts of cultural anthropology, Bodley challenges students to consider "big questions" about the nature of cultural systems.

Employing a scale and power approach, the text examines a representative sampling of the world’s major cultural areas and dominant civilizations, from Australian Aborigines, Amazonia, and East African pastoralists to Pacific Islanders, Mesopotamia, China, Hindu India, the British Empire, and the United States; these cultures are shown in depth, as adapting, integrated systems - and as part of regional, continental, and global systems. He concludes the text with a wide-ranging assessment of human problems in the contemporary commercial world, emphasizing inequality, poverty, environmental degradation, and sustainability.

BRIEF CONTENTS:
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PART I. Introduction
1. Adventures in the Field: Episode One
2. Culture: A Scale & Power Perspective
PART II. The Tribal World: Before the State
3. Australian Aborigines: Mobile Foragers for 50,000 Years
4. Native Amazonians: Villagers of the Rain Forest
5. African Cattle Peoples: Tribal Pastoralists
6. Tribal World Mind, Body, and Soul: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
PART III. The Imperial World: The End of Equality
7. Pacific Islanders: From Leaders to Rulers
8. Ancient Empires: Elite Power in Mesopotamia & the Andes
9. Asian Great Traditions: Ideological Foundations
10. Scale Limits: The Breakdown of States
PART IV. The Commercial Global System
11. Europe and the Commercial World
12. American Plutocracy: Capitalism in the United States
PART V. Conclusions
13. An Unsustainable & Impoverished World
14. Envisioning a Sustainable World
glossary
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index