Written by a prominent scholar in the field, this concise, up-to-date introduction to cultural anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics with contemporary changes in the field. Since no single or monolithic theoretical perspective orients this book, instructors with a wide range of views and approaches can use it effectively. The ...
This comprehensive introduction to anthropology retains its solid coverage of anthroplogy's core - exposing students to its nature, scope, and its role as a science and as a humanities field.
Offering an introduction to cultural anthropology, this text focuses on preserving cultural diversity in the face of globalization. This sixth edition reflects world changes through a revision of both organization and content. Special features include two new chapters covering the demise of the Soviet Union and its attendant ethnic conflicts; the ...
Written by one of the prominent scholars in the field and recent inductee of The National Academy of Sciences, this concise, up-to-date introduction to general anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics and contemporary changes in the field. Since no single or monolithic theoretical perspective orients this book, instructors with a ...
An interdisciplinary account of diversity and multiculturalism in the US and Canada and clarifies issues, themes, and topics in the study of diversity, including ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. It also shows how human agency and culture work to organize and change society.
This is a revision of a highly readable, instructive, and entertaining ethnography for use as a supplemental text in introductory anthropology courses. The text chronicles the rapid social and economic change in Arembepe, a Brazilian coastal fishing village, where the author conducted anthropological fieldwork, from 1962 to the present. This ...
The new edition of Kottak's best selling text for cultural anthropology emphasizes anthropology's integrated and comparative nature with "Bringing It All Together" essays that show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive feature, "Understanding Ourselves", illustrates the ...
On Being Different provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary account of diversity and multiculturalism in the United States and Canada. Kottak and Kozaitis clarify essential issues, themes, and topics in the study of diversity, including ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. The book also presents an original ...
The new edition of Kottak's best selling text continues to offer a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective. To emphasize anthropology's integrated and comparative nature, "Bringing It All Together" essays show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Department of Anthropology, U of M
Date Published: 1980
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Soft Cover discolored around edges and spine; blue circle sticker affixed w/tape to bottom of spine; owner stamp on front cover; "American Culture" stamped on title page; clean interior; 176 pgs. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL
Date Published: 1998
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780073405247ISBN:0073405248
Description: New. Written by a prominent scholar in the field and recent inductee to The National Academy of Sciences, this concise, up-to-date introduction to cultural anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics with contemporary changes in the field. read more
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Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology
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David W McCurdy (Editor), James P Spradley (Editor)
