Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Orientation
Chapter 2. What Is the Meaning of Life? Worldviews
Chapter 3. You are OK, How Am I? Feedback Loops
Chapter 4. Traffic Jams: Optimizing and Maximizing
Chapter 5. There’s No Free Lunch: Gifts, Reciprocity, and Transactions
Chapter 6. What’s the Difference? Emic and Etic
Chapter 7. Who Is My Brother? Kinship Systems
Chapter 8. ‘Till Death Us Do Part: Marriage
Chapter 9. Neither In nor Out: Liminal Stuff
Chapter 10. Why Did the Anthropologist Cross the Road? What Traffic Patterns Tells Us about Cultures
Chapter 11. Waiter There’s a Dragonfly in My Soup: Food Taboos
Chapter 12. Ancient Greeks Had No Word for Blue: Color Classification, Language, and Cognition
Chapter 13. Tag, You’re It: Magic, Religion, and Science
Chapter 14. Then and Now: The Search for Origins
Chapter 15. Got Any Change? Marx versus Weber
Chapter 16. Lord, I’m Coming Home: Home and Identity
Chapter 17. I Like It, But Is It Art? Anthropology of Aesthetics
Chapter 18. A Change Is as Good as a Rest: Revitalization and Social Change
Chapter 19. Where Is the Center? Who Am I?
References
Index
Author’s ORCID iD
John Forrest – 0000-0002-5038-647X
