Acknowledgments Preface for Instructors Introduction, or How to Read This Book Chapter 1: Science Basics Seek and ye shall find Chapter 2: Human Variation: Race and Gender Skin color: A function of the sun Marriage as partnership Statement on marriage and the family Chapter 3: From Inside and Out Chapter 4: Ecological Systems To each his own Chapter 5: An Anthropological Approach to Economics That's what you get Chapter 6: Political Systems The Burmese border Love it or leave it Chapter 7: Stratification without a State: Medieval Iceland Chapter 8: How States Work Are all men created equal? Is that a gun in your pocket or.? Keeping a lid on it Chapter 9: The Anthropology of Religion Islam reviatlized A test of faith Chapter 10: Political Economy "Independent" shrimpers Chapter 11: Class Witnessing class war Preamble to the IWW Constitution (1908) The Year of the Great Redistribution Chapter 12: Back to the Land The cow war Rigging food systems Worker Coops Chapter 13: Global Processes, Local Systems The magical worldview of capitalists Evo Morales and the new Bolivia Wall Street Meltdown Globalization close up This is what democracy looks like Chapter 14: Connecting the People to the System The Move to Mexico Chinese factory girls Chapter 15: Anthropology Goes to Work Anthropologist heal thyself Medical anthropology Elizabeth K. Briody Fishy anthropology Gathering intel Getting busy Real anthropology Anthropology at war Action anthropology and community gardens Chapter 16: The End Is Near What does anthropology have to say about social media and activism? Glossary References Index About the Authors.