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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 livingthe cooperation necessary to organize workhow exchanges of goods and services take placethe various concepts of ownership and propertythe means of social control through governance and lawthe various beliefs in the supernaturalhow different cultures have come to terms with economic and political globalizationCultures Around the World: An Ethnographic Reader represents different cultures around the world with different degrees of complexity. Included are:The foraging bandsThe tribal peoplesThe chiefdomsThe state level societies ranging from the agrarian to the empires