Perspectives

Welcome to the second edition of Perspectives and Open Access Anthropology!

We are delighted to bring to you this novel textbook, a collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author. Each author has written from their experiences working as an anthropologist and that personal touch makes for an accessible introduction to cultural anthropology.

Table of Contents

I. Part 1

1. Introduction to Anthropology

2. The Culture Concept

3. Doing Fieldwork: Methods in Cultural Anthropology

4. Language

5. Subsistence

6. Economics

7. Political Anthropology: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

8. Family and Marriage

9. Race and Ethnicity

10. Gender and Sexuality

11. Religion

12. Globalization

II. Part 2

13. The History of Anthropological Ideas

14. Culture and Sustainability: Environmental Anthropology in the Anthropocene

15. Performance

16. Media Anthropology: Meaning, Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Activism

17. Health and Medicine

18. Seeing Like an Anthropologist: Anthropology in Practice

19. Public Anthropology