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[In order to live in the unprecedented era of the Anthropocene, we need the compass of cultural anthropology.

Anthropologists who have worked with the hunter-gatherers [Punan] of Borneo will give a lecture on cultural anthropology to rethink what is "natural" once again!

[Contents]
This book is an introduction to cultural anthropology by anthropologist* Katsumi Okuno, whose essay "What an Anthropologist Thought about Living with the Forest People Who Don't Need Thanks or Sorry" describing his days with the hunter-gatherers [Punan] of Borneo Island has attracted much attention.
Sharing, diversity, gender, LGBTQ, multispeace... This is a book to learn hints to survive in the modern age called the "Anthropocene" through cultural anthropology.

*Chapter 1: What is Cultural Anthropology?
Thinking of Humanity in Global Time/ Field Research and the Invention of Genealogy/ Shakespeare in the Bush/ [You can see what is close to you, but you cannot see what is far away]/ Punan Repeating Marriage and Divorce/ The Many and Varied Types of Families/ The Ban on Incest Created [Family] and [Society]! / depicting the reality of human life / conversing with human life itself, etc.

*Chapter 2: What is sex?
Sex as nature, sex as culture / Langurs killing their children / Bonobos' omni-directional sex to avoid [infanticide]? /Why is there no mating symptom in humans? / Homosexuality as a product of biological evolution / Sambian society that injects semen into the body and becomes a man / People who think sex cannot produce children / [Sex-positive society] and [sex-negative society] / [Sexual paradise] Micronesia / Sex-avoiding Gusii society / Sex in the near future --Is it possible to have sex in space? etc.

*Chapter 3: Economy and Community
Considering the Human Way of Life from the Perspective of Giving and Exchange / From the Lives of the Hunter-Gatherer Punan / The Myth of the Dungeness that Creates Wealth / The Conflict between Generosity and Possessiveness / The Punan Who Do Not Have the Word [Thank You] / The Punan Insist on Being Equal / The Aesthetic of Faeces / On the [Absence] of [Giving Punan-style anarchism created by the spirit of [spirit] / Thinking about the future of a recycling-oriented society, etc.

*Chapter 4: What is Religion?
Religion is essential for human beings to be human / The ritual act of greeting / How time is experienced / We live our lives through rituals / Theories of cultural anthropology [rites of passage] / The harsh coming-of-age rituals of the agrarian Gis of Eastern Uganda / Borneo's indigenous Brawans dispose of dead bodies twice / Bali islanders do not swim in the sea Balinese do not swim in the sea/ Shamanism that aroused European interest/ Neo-shamanism for modern city dwellers/ The animistic worldview where two worlds go back and forth/ Ainu animism where man, kamui, and bear become one/ Who is the evil magician? --The Case of the Accusation of Evil Arts, etc.

*Chapter 5: The Anthropocene and Cultural Anthropology
How has cultural anthropology understood nature? / The entanglement of flying foxes, fruit trees, and humans / The entanglement of vultures, cattle, pathogens, and humans / Reconsidering anthropocentrism: the ontological turn of anthropology, etc.

*Chapter 6: Me, Travel, and Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology as a Journey to Unleash Myself into the Wild/Journey to Tepewano in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico*/ Becoming an ordained Buddhist monk in Bangladesh and walking in Kurdistan/ One year of wandering in Indonesia/ The experience of travel changes you and others, etc.

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Introduction to Cultural Anthropology for Surviving the Future
これからの時代を生き抜くための文化人類学入門
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[In order to live in the unprecedented era of the Anthropocene, we need the compass of cultural anthropology.

Anthropologists who have worked with the hunter-gatherers [Punan] of Borneo will give a lecture on cultural anthropology to rethink what is "natural" once again!

[Contents]
This book is an introduction to cultural anthropology by anthropologist* Katsumi Okuno, whose essay "What an Anthropologist Thought about Living with the Forest People Who Don't Need Thanks or Sorry" describing his days with the hunter-gatherers [Punan] of Borneo Island has attracted much attention.
Sharing, diversity, gender, LGBTQ, multispeace... This is a book to learn hints to survive in the modern age called the "Anthropocene" through cultural anthropology.

*Chapter 1: What is Cultural Anthropology?
Thinking of Humanity in Global Time/ Field Research and the Invention of Genealogy/ Shakespeare in the Bush/ [You can see what is close to you, but you cannot see what is far away]/ Punan Repeating Marriage and Divorce/ The Many and Varied Types of Families/ The Ban on Incest Created [Family] and [Society]! / depicting the reality of human life / conversing with human life itself, etc.

*Chapter 2: What is sex?
Sex as nature, sex as culture / Langurs killing their children / Bonobos' omni-directional sex to avoid [infanticide]? /Why is there no mating symptom in humans? / Homosexuality as a product of biological evolution / Sambian society that injects semen into the body and becomes a man / People who think sex cannot produce children / [Sex-positive society] and [sex-negative society] / [Sexual paradise] Micronesia / Sex-avoiding Gusii society / Sex in the near future --Is it possible to have sex in space? etc.

*Chapter 3: Economy and Community
Considering the Human Way of Life from the Perspective of Giving and Exchange / From the Lives of the Hunter-Gatherer Punan / The Myth of the Dungeness that Creates Wealth / The Conflict between Generosity and Possessiveness / The Punan Who Do Not Have the Word [Thank You] / The Punan Insist on Being Equal / The Aesthetic of Faeces / On the [Absence] of [Giving Punan-style anarchism created by the spirit of [spirit] / Thinking about the future of a recycling-oriented society, etc.

*Chapter 4: What is Religion?
Religion is essential for human beings to be human / The ritual act of greeting / How time is experienced / We live our lives through rituals / Theories of cultural anthropology [rites of passage] / The harsh coming-of-age rituals of the agrarian Gis of Eastern Uganda / Borneo's indigenous Brawans dispose of dead bodies twice / Bali islanders do not swim in the sea Balinese do not swim in the sea/ Shamanism that aroused European interest/ Neo-shamanism for modern city dwellers/ The animistic worldview where two worlds go back and forth/ Ainu animism where man, kamui, and bear become one/ Who is the evil magician? --The Case of the Accusation of Evil Arts, etc.

*Chapter 5: The Anthropocene and Cultural Anthropology
How has cultural anthropology understood nature? / The entanglement of flying foxes, fruit trees, and humans / The entanglement of vultures, cattle, pathogens, and humans / Reconsidering anthropocentrism: the ontological turn of anthropology, etc.

*Chapter 6: Me, Travel, and Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology as a Journey to Unleash Myself into the Wild/Journey to Tepewano in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico*/ Becoming an ordained Buddhist monk in Bangladesh and walking in Kurdistan/ One year of wandering in Indonesia/ The experience of travel changes you and others, etc.

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