Contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
1. Introduction: Comparison and Context
2. A Brief History of Anthropology
3. Fieldwork and its Interpretation
4. The Social Person
5. Local Organisation
6. Person and Society
7. Kinship as Descent
8. Marriage and Alliance
9. Gender and Age
10. Social Hierarchies
11. Politics and Power
12. Exchange
13. Production and Technology
14. Religion and Ritual
15. Modes of Thought
16. The Challenge of Multiple Traditions
17. Ethnicity
18. The Politics of Identity: Nationalism and Minorities
19. The Global, the Local and the Glocal
Epilogue: And So What?
Bibliography