Introducing Cultural Anthropology with PowerWeb

Name: Introducing Cultural Anthropology with PowerWeb
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ISBN: 9780073258959

ISBN-10: 0073258954

ISBN-13: 9780073258959

Edition: 3rd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Roberta Edwards Lenkeit

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This shorter, but comprehensive and academically sound, anchor text is an approachable, full-color introduction to cultural anthropology. This edition continues to give students the opportunity to explore anthropology's relevance to their own lives through stories, examples, and new, unique chapter-opening vignettes. The rich visual program allows professors to assign outside reading without sacrificing visual appeal in a concise text. A relaxed writing style offers students an accessible text, which is to-the-point and well-organized yet academically solid. Unique "Try This" pedagogy asks students to think critically and apply anthropological concepts, perspectives and methods, and the…

Book details

List price: $66.56
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 333
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



To the Instructor To the Student



Basic Concepts And Methods In Anthropology



Anthropology: What Are Its Subfields and Perspectives?



Culture: What Makes Us Strangers When We Are Away From Home?



Fieldwork: How Is Data Gathered?



Language: Is This What Makes Us Human?



Cross-Cultural Adaptive Patterns



Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation I: What Challenges Face Foragers?



Subsistence Strategies and Resource Allocation II: How Did Food Production Transform Culture?



Marriage, Family and Residence: What are the Possibilities?



Kinship and Descent: Are These the Ties That Bind?



Gender and Sexuality: Nature or Nurture



Political Order, Disorder, And Social Control: Who Decides?



Belief Systems: How Do We Explain the Unexplainable?



Expressions: Is This Art?



Applying The Anthropological Perspective



Culture Change and Globalization: What Have We Learned?



Applying Anthropology: How Does It Make A Difference?



How Do You Read An Ethnography?



How Do You Make String Figures?


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