E-raamat: Companion Encyclopaedia of Anthropology

Part 1 Humanity: concepts of humanity and animality; evolution of early
hominids; human evolution - the last one million years; the origins and
evolution of language; the social transmission of information in humans and
non-human animals; tools; modes of subsistence - hunting and gathering to
agriculture and pastoralism; the diet and nutrition of human populations;
demographic expansion - causes and consequences; disease and the destruction
of human populations. Part 2 Culture: culture and environment in evolutionary
theory; symbolism - the foundations of human culture; artefacts and the
meaning of things; technology; fundamentals of ethno-biological
classification; spatial organization and the built environment; perceptions
of time; literacy; magic, religion and the rationality of belief; myth and
cosmology; ritual and performance the anthropology of art; music and dance;
the politics of culture - ethnicity and nationalism. Part 3 Social life:
sociality among humans and non-human animals; rules and prohibitions - the
form and content of human kinship; socialization and personhood; social
aspects of language use; understanding sex and gender; work, the division of
labour and co-operation; exchange and reciprocity; process of law and dispute
settlement; violence and warfare; political domination and cultural
evolution; equality and inequality; the nation state, colonial expansion and
the contemporary world order.