Peoples and Cultures of the World

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"The Great courses, Topic: History ; Subtopic: Civilization & culture"--Container.
Accompanying course guidebook includes: a glossary, biographical notes, and a bibliography.
"Course no. 4617."
Twenty-four lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Disc 1. Lecture 1. The study of humanity ; Lecture 2. The four fields of anthropology ; Lecture 3. Culture and relativity ; Lecture 4. Fieldwork and the anthropological method ; Lecture 5. Nature, nurture, and human behavior ; Lecture 6. Languages, dialects, and social categories.
Disc 2. Lecture 7. Language and thought ; Lecture 8. Constructing emotions and identities ; Lecture 9. Magic, religion, and codes of conduct ; Lecture 10. Rites of passage ; Lecture 11. Family, marriage, and incest ; Lecture 12. Multiple spouses and matrilineality.
Disc 3. Lecture 13. Gatherers and hunters ; Lecture 14. Headmen and horticulturists ; Lecture 15. Cannibalism and violence ; Lecture 16. The role of reciprocity ; Lecture 17. Chiefdoms and redistribution ; Lecture 18. Cultural contact and colonialism.
Disc 4. Lecture 19. Cultures of capitalism ; Lecture 20. Is economics rational? ; Lecture 21. Late capitalism : from Ford to Disney ; Lecture 22. The Maya, ancient and modern ; Lecture 23. Maya resurgence in Guatemala and Mexico ; Lecture 24. The Janus face of globalization.
Lecturer: Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt University.
In this course of lectures Prof. Fischer surveys anthropology, the study of human societies and comparative customs with a special emphasis on pre-capitalist societies and the things which pre-capitalist societies and modern societies have in common.
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