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Provides a cross-cultural study of the diversity of human behaviors in contemporary cultures. Topics surveyed include socialization; language; sex, age and kinship roles; religion and magic; marriage and the family; political and economic behavior; cultural change; and the arts. Coverage of anthropological methodology, theory, and fieldwork.

Introduces the major concepts, theories, and research methods of cultural anthropology that are used to study and understand human culture in different parts of the world. An emphasis given to how traditional and nontraditional cultures undergo change as a result of globalization, and how cultural anthropologists study the social, economic, and political consequences that result from integration into an expanding and changing global economy. Topics covered may include, but are not limited to, social organization, economics, power and politics, race and ethnicity, language and communication, technology, religion and ritual, and sex and gender. A wide geographic coverage provides a basis for global comparisons of cultural similarities and differences among human societies.