Framed around the concept of culture, CULTURE COUNTS, 4th Edition, uses ethnographic storytelling to draw students into the material and teach valuable critical-thinking skills. The text focuses on how culture directs and explains people's behavior, thereby helping students understand the world today as well as how humans can solve problems and effect positive change. Using an authoritative yet conversational voice, the authors emphasize contemporary issues, the impact of globalization, gender issues, equalities and inequalities, cross-cultural comparisons, and American culture. These topics are important to both the study of anthropology and understanding of the world around you.

1. What Is Anthropology and Why Should I Care?
2. Culture Counts.
3. Doing Cultural Anthropology.
4. Communication.
5. Making a Living.
6. Economics.
7. Political Organization.
8. Stratification: Class, Caste, Race, and Ethnicity.
9. Marriage, Family, and Kinship.
10. Sex and Gender.
11. Religion.
12. Creative Expression: Anthropology and the Arts.
13. Power, Conquest, and a World System.
14. Culture, Change, and Globalization.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

Framed around the concept of culture, CULTURE COUNTS, 4th Edition, uses ethnographic storytelling to draw students into the material and teach valuable critical-thinking skills. The text focuses on how culture directs and explains people's behavior, thereby helping students understand the world today as well as how humans can solve problems and effect positive change. Using an authoritative yet conversational voice, the authors emphasize contemporary issues, the impact of globalization, gender issues, equalities and inequalities, cross-cultural comparisons, and American culture. These topics are important to both the study of anthropology and understanding of the world around you. Chapter 1 contains a revised section on biological anthropology, and the linguistic anthropology section was updated to include new technology. The section on forensic anthropology now includes examples of mass murder and genocide, and there is an addition of new archaeological data about human violence. Chapter 2 has increased coverage of medical anthropology (differentiation of disease and illness) and updated material regarding the legalization of marijuana. Chapter 3 contains new emphasis on distinguishing cultural relativism and moral relativism, as well as an updated and expanded section on Polly Wiessner and her work with the Enga. This chapter was revised to include material on the Islamic State and Boko Haram. Chapter 4 includes increased coverage of political speech and "northern cities shift." There has been substantial updating of the Bringing it Back Home: English Only section, including coverage of the "three generation rule." Chapter 5 contains a significant rewrite to improve the organization and wording of the sections about environment and human adaptation, as well as improved and increased coverage of pastoralism. The case study Musha: A Peasant Agricultural Village in Egypt has been reorganized and improved. Chapter 6 contains improvements to the organization in the section on organizing labor. There is a new subsection on households and kin groups in small scale society and a significant rewrite of the section on specialization in complex societies. There are also new updates on Ukraine to include events of the last three years and revisions to the resistance to capitalism section. Chapter 7 includes a new section on political process and updates on chieftainships to reflect the ways these were changed by globalization. The State and Social Stratification section contains updates reflecting the recent refugee crisis and issues pertaining to denial of citizenship, and the Bringing it Back Home: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? section contains new material on the US/Mexico border fence. Chapter 8 contains sections on the American class system; homelessness and social activism; race and racial stratification in the US; and ethnic stratification in the US. Chapter 9 contains an addition about working women in India and a new section titled Using Anthropology: Domestic Violence and the Culture Defense.