Cultural Anthropology

__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__ Anthropology is the holistic and scientific study of humanity. Cultural Anthropology focuses on contemporary human cultures, their beliefs, myths, values, practices, technologies, economies and other domains of social and cognitive organization. The detailed descriptions of culture, or ethnography, are based upon a methodology of primary data collection through participant observation with living human populations. This textbook aims to provide an introduction to the field of cultural anthropology. The initial chapters introduce the concept of culture and review the historical, theoretical, and methodological influences on the field. Chapters four through twelve discuss the major domains of the study of culture; symbolism, communication, ritual, production, healing, rights, reproduction, kinship, conflict, and globalization. These chapters provide ethnographic examples (both etic and emic perspectives) and case studies to support the central concepts in each chapter. Additional case studies are available via the Anthrobase website and others can be developed in Wikibook format and integrated through links in this book. Table of Contents 200px|right Chapters: Introduction to Anthropology and Culture 100% Mar 12, 2009 /History of Anthropological Theory/ 75% Mar 12, 2009 /Anthropological Methods/ 75% Mar 12, 2009 /Communication and Language/ 100% Mar 12, 2009 Play, Sport, and Arts 50% Mar 12, 2009 /Ritual and Religion/ 100% Mar 12, 2009 /Production, Inequality and Development/ 100% Mar 12, 2009 /Health and Healing/ 100% Mar 12, 2009 /Human Rights/ 75% Mar 12, 2009 /Marriage, Reproduction and Kinship/ 100% Mar 12, 2009 /Social Stratification, Power and Conflict / 75% Mar 12, 2009 /Globalization and Migration/ 75% Mar 12, 2009 Ethnographic Case Studies Anthrobase is an online searchable, open source database of full text ethnographies. Nearly 100 of them are in English To Do General Tasks Repair and reformat references using <ref>Citation</ref> intext citation format and insert =References= {{reflist}} at bottom of each chapter Dewikify Chapters moving key terms to /Glossary Please add key terms from all chapters to this page alphabetically under the appropriate Letter A-Z. Use the definition given in the Wikibook. Please bold and link key terms in text to this page rather than the Wikipedia article. When removing the Wikilinks, from the text feel free to maintain links to Wikipedia within the glossary as a source of more information. Edit and improve quality of chapter content. Create PDF Chapter specific tasks, revisions and needed additional content Ritual & Religion Chapter Consider what 'world religions' descriptions should be maintained or deleted - or if all should be moved to new chapter. Re-write priest & priestess section Possible deletion of "Vaschnavism" Re-write lengthy Judaism and Christianity sections Clarify "Cargo Cult" Clarify "African Religions" Possible shortening/restoration of "Pastafarian" section Move "Additional-Information-Taiwanese People and Culture" to more appropriate place Social groups chapter Black and White Relations - I want to see how other races in other countries deal with each other. Integrate content or links to An introduction to antiracist activism for teachers and students Health, Healing & Human Rights Chapter Move "Cultural Imperialism" chapter to globalization chapter Globalization & Migration Chapter Clarify on "How Globalization Affects the Five Modes of Production" -more critical thought needed Clarify on section "Globalization of Hip-Hop" C Cultural anthropology 75%