Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives pdf

He holds a PhD in anthropology from Boston University. My PhD fieldwork focused on religious change and cultural processes among Central Australia. I have taught anthropology in upstate New York and Denver. My areas of interest include religion, violence, and psychological anthropology. I am the author of books such as "Violence and Culture: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approach" (Wadsworth, 2005), "Introducing the Anthropology of Religion" 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2014), “Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Life” 3rd ed. (Routledge, 2016), “Cruel Doctrines and Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence Across Culture and History” (Prometheus, 2010), “Social Sciences and Historical Perspectives: Society, Science, and Methods of Knowledge” (Routledge, 2016) and “Psychological Anthropology for the Twenty-first Century”) Routledge, 2018).

Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives pdf by jack david eller

Cultural Anthropology: Global forces, local lives is an accessible ethnographically rich cultural anthropology textbook which gives a coherent and refreshingly new vision of the discipline and its subject matter--human diversity. The fifteen chapters and three extended case studies present all of the necessary areas of cultural anthropology, organizing them in conceptually and thematically meaningful and original ways.
A full one-third of its content is dedicated to important global and historical cultural phenomena such as colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity and ethnic conflict, economic development, environmental issues, cultural revival, fundamentalism, and popular culture. The more conventional topics of anthropology (language, economics, kinship, politics, religion, race) are integrated into this broader discussion to reflect the changing content of contemporary courses.
This well written and well organised text has been trialled both in the classroom and online. The author has extensive teaching experience and is especially good at presenting material clearly matching his exposition to the pace of students' understanding.
Specially designed in colour to be useful to today's students, Cultural Anthropology: Global forces, local lives:
supports study with chapter case studies on subjects as diverse as "Doing Anthropology at Microsoft" to "Banning Religious Symbols in France" explains difficult key terms with marginal glosses and links related topics with marginal cross-references assists revision with boxed chapter summaries, an extensive bibliography and index illustrates concepts and commentary with a vivid range of photographs drawn from the most contemporary anthropological sources provides a support website which includes study guides, powerpoint presentations, chapter supplements, multiple-choice, essay, and assignment questions, a model course mapped to the textbook, a flashcard glossary of terms, links to useful maps