Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader

Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader provides a starting point for 20 cultures. The descriptions of each culture are introduced to the reader with each chapter ending with recommended videos and literatures that lead to further resources. The main continents are represented including the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Central, Southern, and East Asia. Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader provides the raw material for understanding human behavior: the diverse ways of making a living the cooperation necessary to organize work how exchanges of goods and services take place the various concepts of ownership and property the means of social control through governance and law the various beliefs in the supernatural how different cultures have come to terms with economic and political globalization Cultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader represents different cultures around the world with different degrees of complexity. Included are: The foraging bands The tribal peoples The chiefdoms The state level societies ranging from the agrarian to the empires