Figures
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Tables
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Table 1.1 Definitions of Culture
Table 1.2 Some of the Major Components of Culture Addressed in This Book
Table 1.3 Some of the Subfields of Cultural Anthropology
Table 2.1 Assessing the Adaptiveness of Culture
Table 2.3 Applied Anthropology in Practice
Table 3.1 Linnaeus’s Four Varieties of Humans
Table 4.1 Proxemic Zones for People in the United States
Table 4.2 Five Categories of Touch
Table 4.3 Laughing Online around the World
Table 6.1 Examples of Gender Specialization across 185 Societies
Table 7.1 Trobriand Islanders’ Exchange of Marriage Gifts
Table 7.2 Women Praying in the Women’s Section of the Western Wall
Table 8.1 “Masculine” and “Feminine” Traits of North American Men and Women
Table 9.1 Comparison of Class and Caste
Table 10.1 Excerpt from Cantares Mexicanos #20 by Aztec Poet Nezahualcoyotl
Table 11.1 Cultural Theories of Illness
Table 11.2 Edible Plants Used by Native Populations and in Modern Pharmaceuticals
Boxes
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Box 1.1 Food Matters: The Anthropology of Food
Box 1.2 Talking About: Sports Team Mascots
Box 2.1 Food Matters: Do You Eat Bugs?
Box 2.2 Talking About: Digital Ethnography and the Language of Gaming
Box 3.1 Food Matters: Reclaiming Ethnic Food Traditions and Health
Box 3.2 Talking About: Being Hapa, Flipxican, and Japanic
Box 4.1 Food Matters: Greetings! Have You Eaten?
Box 4.2 Talking About: Color Categories
Box 5.2 Talking About: Ancient Aztec Foodways
Box 6.1 Food Matters: Sharing “Spread” in Prison—Reciprocity and Social Capital
Box 6.2 Talking About: Christmas in the Kalahari—The Importance of Language in Exchange
Box 7.1 Food Matters: AAA Response to Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Box 7.2 Talking About: Comfort Food and the Family
Box 8.1 Food Matters: Food, Body Image, and Gender
Box 8.2 Talking About: Why Don’t You Understand Me?
Box 9.1 Food Matters: Language Desensitization in a Strategic War Think Tank
Box 9.2 Talking About: Cannibalism in War Rituals
Box 10.1 Food Matters: Religious Food Taboos
Box 10.2 Talking About: Religious Speech
Box 11.1 Food Matters: “The Kidney in Room 4”—The Language of Hospitals
Box 11.2 Talking About: Using Edible Plants to Heal
Box 12.1 Food Matters: Chocolate Production
Box 12.2 Talking About: Connections between Language Diversity and Biodiversity
Maps
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Anthropology
is a kind of lens,
bringing focus and
clarity to human
diversity
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