Table of Contents

1. The Discipline of Anthropology
2. The Concept of Culture
3. Language
4. Social Structure and Inequality
5. Gender and Sexuality
6. Production and Exchange
7. Authority and Power
8. Kinship and Marriage
9. Religion and Ritual
10. Globalization and Culture Change
11. Theory in Anthropology
12. Anthropology in Action
Index

About the Author

Brian M. Howell (PhD, Washington University) is associate professor of anthropology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Jenell Williams Paris (PhD, American University) is professor of anthropology and sociology at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. Both authors regularly teach introductory anthropology courses.