Carol R. Ember, Human Relations Area Files at Yale University

Melvin Ember, Human Relations Area Files at Yale University

1. What Is Anthropology?

2. Culture and Culture Change

3. Culture and the Individual

4. Understanding and Explaining Culture

5. Communication and Language

6. Getting Food

7. Economic Systems

8. Social Stratification: Class, Ethnicity, and Racism

9. Sex and Gender

10. Marriage and the Family

11. Marital Residence and Kinship

12. Associations and Interest Groups

13. Political Life: Social Order and Disorder

14. Religion and Magic

15. The Arts

16. Health and Illness

17. Practicing and Applying Anthropology

UPDATED! Global Issues boxes explore worldwide social problems. Some of these boxes are new and many were adapted from material in the global problems chapter of the previous edition.

UPDATED! Perspectives on Diversity boxes shed light on issues pertaining to gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, both in anthropology and everyday life.

Applied Anthropology boxes provide students with a thorough understanding of the vast range of issues to which anthropological knowledge can be usefully applied.

Current Research boxes focus on anthropological research and highlight how this work can be used to help others.

UPDATED! The 15th Edition has been updated with current research citations to ensure that students are receiving the latest information. Highlights include the following:

Coverage of issues such as whether language promotes sexist thinking in Chapter 5;

New information on environmental and climate change in Chapters 2, 5, and 6; and

Updated and new content on global inequality in Chapter 8.