Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index. Bodley, J. H. (2000). Cultural anthropology: tribes, states, and the global system (3rd ed.). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company.

Part 1: Introduction -- Understanding other cultures -- Part 2: Domestic-scale culture: the world before the state -- Australian aborigines: mobile foragers for 50,000 years -- Native Amazonians: villagers of the rain forest -- African cattle peoples: tribal pastoralists -- Body, mind, and soul: the quality of tribal life -- Part 3: Political-scale culture: the end of equality -- Pacific islanders: the ranked chiefdoms -- Early states: the near east and the andes -- The Chinese great tradition -- Great traditions: Hinduism and Islam in South Asia -- The breakdown of states -- Part 4: Commercial-scale culture: the global system -- Europe and the commercial world -- The American capitalist state -- The impoverished world -- Indigenous peoples -- Beyond 2000: the future in the global greenhouse