Anthropology : appreciating human diversity

I wrote the first edition of this book during a time of rapid change in my favorite academic discipline— anthropology. My colleagues and I were excited about new discoveries and directions in all four of anthropology's subfields—biological anthropology, anthropological archaeology, sociocultural anthropol¬ogy, and linguistic anthropology. My goal was to write a book that would capture that…

Cultural anthropology : appreciating cultural diversity

Edisi

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ISBN/ISSN

9780077861537

Deskripsi Fisik

xxv, 355 hlm. : ilus. ; 28 cm.

Pengarang

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No. Panggil

306 Kot c

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Window on humanity : a concise itroduction to antrophology

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Cultural Anthropology

Since I began teaching (Cultural) Anthropolog 101 in 1968, Ive taught the course dozens of time I decided to write this book in the 1970s, a tim when there were far fewer introductory anthropo ogy texts than there are today. The texts back the tended to be overly encyclopedic. I found ther. overly long, old-fashioned, and unfocused. Th field of anthropology was changing rapidly Anthropologists …