Cultural anthropology : global forces, local lives / Jack David Eller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding anthropology -- Understanding and studying culture -- The origins of cultural anthropology -- Language and social relations -- Learning to be an individual : personality and gender -- Individuals and identities : race and ethnicity -- Economics : humans, nature, and social organization -- Kinship and non-kin organization : creating social groups -- Politics : social order and social control -- Religion : interacting with the non-human world -- Cultural dynamics : continuity and change -- Colonialism and the origin of globalization -- The struggle for political identity : nationalism, ethnicity, and conflict -- The struggle for economic independence : development, modernization, and globalization -- The struggle for cultural survival, revival, and revitalization.