Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives is an exceptionally clear and readable introduction that helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world and everyday life.

Jack David Eller is Associate Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at the Community College of Denver, USA. An experienced teacher and author, his other books for Routledge include Introducing Anthropology of Religion (second edition, 2014), Cultural Anthropology: 101 (2015), Culture and Diversity in the United States (2015), Social Science and Historical Perspectives (2016), and Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century (2018).

1. UNDERSTANDING ANTHROPOLOGY; 2. UNDERSTANDING AND STUDYING CULTURE; 3. THE ORIGINS OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; 4. LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL RELATIONS; 5. CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF PERSONS: PERSONALITY AND GENDER; 6. INDIVIDUALS AND IDENTITIES: RACE AND ETHNICITY; 7. HEALTH, ILLNESS, BODY, AND CULTURE; 8. ECONOMICS: HUMANS, NATURE, AND SOCIETY; 9. KINSHIP AND NON-KIN GROUPS: BEING, BECOMING, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; 10. POLITICS: SOCIAL ORDER AND SOCIAL CONTROL; 11. RELIGION: RELATING TO THE NON-HUMAN WORLD; 12. CULTURAL DYNAMICS: TRADITION AND CHANGE; 13. COLONIALISM AND THE ORIGIN OF GLOBALIZATION; 14. THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL IDENTITY IN A MOBILE AND UNCERTAIN WORLD; 15. ECONOMICS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: DEVELOPMENT, MODERNIZATION, AND NEOLIBERALISM; 16. CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL IN THE 21st CENTURY