Anthropology Unbound A Field Guide to the 21st Century [Paperback]

The first edition of the widely popularAnthropology Unboundprepared readers to see how the dynamics of Western economies were rapidly becoming unsustainable. This updated edition takes readers into the heart of the economic meltdown as it explains the many recent world events it had predicted. With the unique perspective of anthropology, this book offers a wider view of the present financial crisis-as well as pathways out of it. It describes the latest studies of fundamentalism, Al-Qaeda, and American culture, inviting students into an anthropological way of understanding our own society and the world at large.

Acknowledgments
Preface for Instructors
Introduction, or How to Read This Book
Prologue: In the Beginning

Chapter 1: Science Basics
Chapter 2: People are Primates
Chapter 3: Human Variation: Race and Gender
Chapter 4: Language
Chapter 5: How We Think about Kinship
Chapter 6: Ecological Systems
Chapter 7: An Anthropological Approach to Economics
Chapter 8: Political Systems
Chapter 9: Stratifications without a State: Medieval Iceland
Chapter 10: How States Work
Chapter 11: The Anthropology of Religion
Chapter 12: Political Economy
Chapter 13: Class
Chapter 14: Back to the Land
Chapter 15: Global Processes, Local Systems
Chapter 16: Connecting the People to the System
Chapter 17: The End is Near

Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors