Investigating Culture : An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Disorientation and Orientation -- Disorientation and Orientation -- Introduction -- Disorientation -- Orientation -- What Is Anthropology? -- Nature and Culture -- Culture -- Social and Cultural Anthropology -- Culture and Power -- Subculture and Boundless Culture -- The Personal Is Political -- Investigating -- Fieldwork and Ethnography -- Orientation to the Book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Spatial Locations -- Spatial Locations -- Maps -- Cosmology -- Nations and Regions -- Contested Territories -- City Spaces -- Restricted Spaces -- Invisible Spaces -- Notes -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 3: All We Have Is Time -- Cosmological Time -- Lived Time -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Language: We Are What We Speak -- Theories of Language -- Language in Use -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Relatives and Relations -- Relatives and Relations -- Courtship -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Family -- Kinship: Relatives and Relations -- Nature, Culture, and Folk Biology -- Friends -- In Praise of Manners -- Notes -- 5.3. Work and Home -- References -- Chapter 6: Our Bodies, Our Selves -- Our Bodies, Our Selves -- Body Experience -- Body Image -- Male Bodies -- Body Modifications -- Techniques of the Body -- Body Orientation -- The Social Body -- Body and Nation -- Traffic in Body Parts -- Dead and Dying Bodies -- Immortality and Cryonics -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Food for Thought -- Food for Thought -- Introduction -- We Are What We Eat -- What Is Food? -- What Makes a Meal? -- Of Meat and Men -- Food and Worldview -- Anomalous Foods: Betwixt and Between -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Clothing Matters -- Clothing Matters -- Modesty or Protection? -- Distinctions -- Gender and Clothes.

Fashion -- Subcultural Style -- Politics of Clothes -- Political Economy of Clothing -- Globalization of the Clothing Industry -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: VIPs: Very Important People, Places, and Performances -- A Place -- A Ritual Performance -- Sports -- The Beatles -- Princess Diana: She Did Not Live Happily Ever After -- Blood and Nation -- The Statue of Liberty -- Concluding Section: Pilgrimage, Myth, and Religion -- Notes -- References -- Notes -- Index -- EULA.

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