CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- 1. Introduction: Comparison and Context -- 2. A Brief History of Anthropology -- 3. Fieldwork and its Interpretation -- 4. The Social Person -- 5. Local Organisation -- 6. Person and Society -- 7. Kinship as Descent -- 8. Marriage and Alliance -- 9. Gender and Age -- 10. Social Hierarchies -- 11. Politics and Power -- 12. Exchange -- 13. Production and Technology -- 14. Religion and Ritual -- 15. Modes of Thought -- 16. The Challenge of Multiple Traditions -- 17. Ethnicity -- 18. The Politics of Identity: Nationalism and Minorities -- 19. The Global, the Local and the Glocal -- Epilogue: And So What? -- Bibliography -- Index -- acquiescence, tacit, 171 -- actors -- 48-9 -- 50-3 -- 75 -- and ritual, 224 -- and society, 84-5 -- consumers as, 190 -- adolescence 136 -- aesthetics 89 -- affinality 115 -- Africa -- 18 -- 32 -- urbanisation, 246-8 -- urbanisation, 249-50 -- view of self, 54 -- age -- 134-5 -- 215 -- conflict with education, 154-5 -- age grades and groups 135-6 -- agencies, global -- 298 -- 300 -- agency -- 48-9 -- 195 -- and consciousness, 91-2 -- and scale, 80 -- politics as, 167 -- agriculture -- 46 -- mode of production, 202-3 -- swidden, 70 -- swidden, 167 -- aid, development -- 183 -- 255-6 -- AIDS 300 -- Ainu [Japan] 308-9 -- alliance -- 118 -- 165 -- and lineage, 109 -- and lineage, 112 -- and lineage, 114 -- and lineage, 117 -- marriage, 112 -- marriage, 117 -- Amin, Idi -- 183 -- 249 -- analysis -- 30-2 -- 35 -- ancestral spirits -- 213 -- 214-15 -- Andersen, Bjørge 134 -- Anderson, Benedict 278 -- Andes 253 -- animism 212 -- anomie 62 -- anthropologists -- attitudes to subjects -- attitudes to subjects 27-9 -- roles of, 24-5 -- anthropology -- American, 9, 15, 232-3 -- applied to modern societies -- 29-30 -- 37-9 -- American, 9 -- American, 15.

American, 232-3 -- and cultural relativism, 257 -- British schools, 15-16 -- British schools, 194-5 -- criticism of, 37-8 -- defined, 1-2 -- defined, 4-5 -- effect on 'objects of study', 31-2 -- effect on 'objects of study', 257-8 -- effect on 'objects of study', 259 -- French, 16-17 -- French, 194-5 -- interpretation and analysis, 30-2 -- interpretation and analysis, 35 -- key debates, 88-9 -- Manchester School, 246 -- Manchester School, 247 -- Manchester School, 248 -- methodology of urban, 248-9 -- origins of, 9-11 -- origins of, 232 -- purpose of, 312-13 -- specialisations in, 18 -- specialisations in, 23 -- specialisations in, 31 -- specialisations in, 38-9 -- specialisations in, 307 -- terminology, 261 -- Victorian, 11-13 -- Appadurai, Arjun -- 189 -- 190 -- 192 -- 304 -- 305 -- Archetti, Eduardo -- 181 -- 225 -- 255-7 -- Ardener, Edwin 132-3 -- Arens, William 234 -- artefacts, meaning of 189-91 -- Asad, Talal -- 169 -- 178 -- Atieno Odhiambo, E.S. 249 -- Augé, Marc 225 -- Australia 245 -- Ayodhya, India, riots 173 -- Azande people [Sudan] -- 229-32 -- 295 -- Bachofen, J.J. 12 -- Baggara people [Sudan] 263 -- Bailey, F.G. -- 20 -- 145 -- Baktaman [New Guinea] 135 -- Bakweri [Cameroon] 136 -- Balandier, Georges 19 -- Bali, Indonesia -- 197-8 -- 219 -- Barnes, John 78 -- barter 185 -- Barth, Fredrik -- 20 -- 22 -- 146-7 -- 168 -- 169 -- on economic changes, 187 -- on ethnicity, 263-4 -- on impression management, 52 -- on religion, 209 -- Basseri people [Iran] 209 -- Bastian, Adolf 12 -- Bateson, Gregory -- 43 -- 85 -- 194 -- 238 -- on cultural difference, 262-3 -- Bauman, Zygmunt 304 -- Baumann, Gerd 303-4 -- behaviour -- 40-1 -- 48 -- Beidelman, T.O. -- 138-9 -- 213 -- Benedict, Ruth -- 14 -- 34 -- Bergen, Norway 249 -- Berger, Peter 86 -- Bergson, Henri 242 -- Bernstein, Basil 87 -- Berreman, Gerald 147.

big men -- 164 -- acquisition of power, 166 -- acquisition of power, 168 -- Bisipara, Orissa [eastern India] -- 145-6 -- 155 -- Bloch, Maurice -- 92 -- 124 -- 221-3 -- Boas, Franz -- 13-14 -- 20 -- 195 -- body, anthropology of the -- 56-7 -- 134 -- Bohannan, Laura -- 118 -- 187 -- Bohannan, Paul 187 -- Bolivia 273 -- Bombay [Mumbai] 145 -- Borofsky, Robert 91 -- Bororo people [Amazon] -- 228 -- 236-7 -- Boserup, Ester 127 -- boundaries -- 275 -- 292 -- 309 -- Bourdieu, Pierre -- 154 -- 183 -- 185 -- 190 -- and 'habitus', 91-2 -- on language, 242 -- on language, 243 -- theory of cultural classes, 153-4 -- Bremnes, Norway, networks in -- 78 -- 98 -- bricolage 239-40 -- bridewealth 109-10 -- Brown, Donald 5 -- Buddhism, caste in -- 143 -- 147 -- Burroughs, William 44 -- Burundi -- 173 -- 175 -- cannibalism 234 -- capitalism -- 176-8 -- 298 -- and class, 151-2 -- and consumption, 177 -- commodity exchange 179 -- commodity exchange 184 -- mode of production, 201 -- mode of production, 204-7 -- cargo cults 250-1 -- Caribbean 303 -- Carrithers, Michael -- 5 -- 40 -- Case Noyale, Mauritius 79-80 -- caste -- and ethnicity, 270 -- and social mobility, 145-6 -- in non-Hindu societies, 143 -- in non-Hindu societies, 149 -- caste system -- India, 19 -- India, 142-50 -- Pathans of Swat, 146-7 -- Castells, Manuel 79 -- Chagnon, Napoleon -- 71 -- 111 -- 204 -- change -- 60 -- 92 -- 250-1 -- 256-7 -- and globalisation, 294 -- economic, 187-9 -- revolutionary, 64 -- revolutionary, 155 -- chiefs, role of 164 -- children -- 118-19 -- 135 -- and personhood, 54 -- labour power of, 108 -- life stages, 61 -- life stages, 63 -- life stages, 64 -- life stages, 136 -- socialisation of, 60-3 -- socialisation of, 102 -- socialisation of, 136-7 -- Chomsky, Noam -- 23 -- 44 -- Christianity -- 60 -- 209 -- 212-13 -- 214 -- 220.

and cargo cults, 251 -- clan -- 102 -- 104-5 -- class in 270-1 -- class theory, Marxist -- 150 -- 151 -- Classen, Constance 47 -- classification -- 44 -- 233 -- 235 -- anomalies of, 235-6 -- anomalies of, 265 -- natural symbols, 236 -- totemic, 236-8 -- Clastres, Pierre 170 -- climate 197-8 -- climatic determinism 193 -- cognitive anthropology 21-3 -- Cohen, Abner -- 247-8 -- 268 -- 303 -- Cohen, David William 249 -- collectivism -- 84 -- 85-6 -- 198 -- colonialism -- 11 -- 187 -- 258 -- and post-colonial state, 170-1 -- and response to modernisation, 250-1 -- end of, 18 -- end of, 252 -- colonisation 253 -- Colson, Elizabeth 20 -- commodification 189-90 -- commodity exchange -- 179 -- 184 -- communication -- 90 -- 297 -- communities, local 58-9 -- comparison -- 4 -- 5 -- 30 -- 36 -- Condorcet, Marquis de 10 -- conflict -- 151 -- 163 -- Congo -- 170-1 -- 172 -- 308 -- Connerton, Paul 90 -- conspicuous -- 153 -- 177 -- 308 -- consumption -- 176 -- 177 -- 298 -- Cook, Captain James 232-3 -- corporations 49 -- Corsica 118 -- creolisation -- 252 -- 298 -- criteria for rank 154-5 -- Csordas, Thomas 56 -- cultural -- 152-4 -- and ethnicity, 270-1 -- endogamy, 98 -- social, 142 -- social, 150-2 -- cultural anthropology, American -- 9 -- 20-1 -- cultural complexity 252-3 -- cultural ecology -- 14 -- 21 -- 194-5 -- 236 -- and Marxism, 195-7 -- cultural evolution 195 -- cultural relativism -- 7 -- 18 -- 22 -- 255 -- 312 -- Boas and, 13-14 -- Boas and, 20 -- Boas and, 195 -- cultural variation -- 229 -- 262-3 -- 309-11 -- culture -- 3-4 -- 44 -- and class differentiation, 153-4 -- and consumption, 176 -- and consumption, 309 -- and ecology, 45-6 -- and gender, 131-2 -- and identity, 307-8 -- and identity, 309-10 -- and multiculturalism, 280-1 -- and nature, 46 -- and nature, 48 -- and transmission of knowledge, 200-1.

as human characteristic, 41-2 -- as human characteristic, 43-4 -- globalisation of, 294 -- globalisation of, 296-7 -- Western, 302 -- Dalits [Untouchables] -- 144 -- 150 -- Daly, Martin 106 -- DaMatta, Roberto 225 -- dance -- Kalela, 247 -- Kalela, 248 -- and ritual, 223 -- and ritual, 225 -- Darwin, Charles -- 12-13 -- 42 -- 195 -- Darwinian social science 106 -- Das, Veena 258-9 -- Davis, John 191 -- Dawkins, Richard 105 -- de-territorialisation 305-6 -- de-tribalisation 247 -- death 139-40 -- deduction 28 -- dependency theory 205 -- dependency, mutual 79 -- descent -- and alliance theory, 112 -- and alliance theory, 114 -- and alliance theory, 117 -- matrilineal, 96 -- matrilineal, 97 -- matrilineal, 99 -- matrilineal, 101-2 -- matrilineal, 103 -- mixed, 265 -- patrilineal, 96 -- patrilineal, 97 -- patrilineal, 99 -- patrilineal, 100-1 -- description 35 -- development aid -- 183 -- 255-6 -- dichotomies 305 -- Diderot, Denis 10 -- diffusionism 13 -- Dinka [southern Sudan] -- 163 -- 296 -- division of labour -- 60 -- 79 -- 124 -- 141 -- and caste system, 143 -- and caste system, 144-5 -- and kinship, 95 -- and modes of production, 202-3 -- gender in, 126-8 -- gender in, 130 -- Yanomamö, 71 -- divorce 109 -- Dogon [Mali] -- 74 -- 100-1 -- 295-6 -- village organisation, 69-70 -- village organisation, 72 -- village organisation, 76 -- village organisation, 77 -- village organisation, 152 -- Douglas, Mary -- 22 -- 57 -- 232 -- 236 -- group and grid, 82-4 -- dowry 109 -- Dumont, Louis -- 19 -- 55 -- 148 -- on caste, 147 -- on caste, 151 -- Durkheim, Emile -- 16 -- 74 -- 84 -- 210-11 -- on classification, 233 -- on classification, 237 -- dyadic relationships -- 64 -- and culture, 45-6 -- and culture, 194-7 -- and system theory, 194 -- ecology, 46 -- ecology, 48 -- ecology, 193-4 -- ecology, 298 -- economy.

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