Anthropology is an ever changing field and James L. Peacock's revised version of his successful text, first published in 1986, covers current issues in cultural anthropology. It includes new topics such as globalization, gender and postmodernism, and reflects recent changes in perspective and language. Designed for students, it will also interest professional anthropologists.
Author(s): James L. Peacock
Edition: 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 174
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface to the first edition......Page 9
OBJECTIVES......Page 11
OUTLINE AND APPROACH......Page 12
A GUIDING IMAGE: HARSH LIGHT AND SOFT FOCUS......Page 13
APOLOGIES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
Preface to the second edition......Page 17
IT'S REAL! CULTURE BEHELD......Page 21
Culture defined......Page 23
Culture is taken for granted......Page 24
Culture is shared......Page 26
Encounter with the other......Page 27
ANTHROPOLOGY DEFINED: A HOLISTIC DISCIPLINE......Page 28
PERCEIVING HOLISTICALLY......Page 31
A holistic view of nature......Page 35
WHOLES DIFFERENTIATED INTO PARTS: ANALYTICAL CONSTRUCTS......Page 40
CULTURE AND EXPERIENCE......Page 43
THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE IN RELATION TO NATURE......Page 44
The separation of culture from nature in anthropology......Page 45
Structuralism......Page 49
Culture and nature as categories in folk, academic, and anthropological culture......Page 51
Anthropological culture: evolution and other theories......Page 54
SOCIETY......Page 56
The small community......Page 58
THE EXOTIC LOCATION OF COMMUNITY AND CULTURE......Page 62
CULTURE AND COMMUNITY IN RELATION TO INDIVIDUAL AND MEANING......Page 65
GLOBALIZATION, POWER, AND GENDER......Page 69
ESSENTIALISM AND GENDER......Page 77
OVERVIEW......Page 81
CHAPTER 2 Method......Page 83
TRAVEL......Page 84
FIELDWORK......Page 89
Fieldwork and the twice-born: a testimony......Page 90
Participation and observation......Page 92
Engagement and position......Page 94
FIELDWORK AND RELATED ENDEAVORS......Page 98
Description and interpretation......Page 105
Positivism and interpretation......Page 108
An example of interpretation: the construction of substance......Page 112
GENERALIZATION......Page 115
Universals......Page 116
Covariation......Page 118
Functionalism......Page 120
Configurationalism......Page 121
Symbolic analysis......Page 122
Ethnographic generalization......Page 123
DEDUCTION, EXPERIMENTATION, AND INTROSPECTION......Page 124
FIELDWORK, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND THEORY......Page 129
CHAPTER 3 Significance......Page 133
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD......Page 134
Books, museums, and worldviews......Page 137
THE EVOLUTIONARY AND THE INTERPRETIVE PERSPECTIVES......Page 140
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: THE MASTERY OF OUR FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF OUR MASTERY......Page 143
Some uses of anthropology: applied anthropology......Page 144
Public anthropology......Page 148
Human rights and other issues......Page 149
Why anthropology is necessarily applied......Page 156
Positivist and interpretive models: implications for practice......Page 159
The relevance of irrelevance: anthropology as antidote......Page 161
HARSH LIGHT AND SOFT FOCUS......Page 164
1 SUBSTANCE......Page 166
2 METHOD......Page 169
3 SIGNIFICANCE......Page 171
Index......Page 173
