Table of Contents

Anthropology Today Boxes 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 
About the Author 


1 What Is Anthropology? 
2 Culture 
3 Doing Anthropology 
4 Language and Communication 
5 Making a Living 
6 Political Systems 
7 Families, Kinship, and Marriage 
8 Gender 
9 Religion 
10 Ethnicity and Race 
11 Applying Anthropology 
12 The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality 
13 Anthropology’s Role in a Globalizing World 


GLOSSARY 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
INDEX 

About the Author

Conrad Phillip Kottak (A.B. Columbia, 1963; Ph.D. Columbia, 1966) is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1968.  In 1991 he was honored for his teaching by the University and the state of Michigan.  In 1992 he received an excellence in teaching award from the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts of the University of Michigan.  Professor Kottak has done fieldwork in cultural anthropology in Brazil (since 1962), Madagascar (since 1966), and the United States. In current research projects, Kottak and his colleagues have investigated the emergence of ecological awareness in Brazil, the social context of deforestation in Madagascar, and popular participation in economic development planning in northeastern Brazil.