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…
Written by a prominent scholar in the field, Conrad Phillip Kottak, this concise, student-friendly introduction to cultural anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics and contemporary changes in the field, while maintaining its connection with students through relevant examples. The combination of brevity, readability, and trusted content makes Mirror for Humanity a perfect match f…
Window on Humanity is intended to provide a concise, readable, lower-cost introduc-tion to general (four-field) anthropology. The combination of shorter length and lower cost increases the instructor's options for assigning additional reading—case studies, readers, and other supplements—in a semester course. Window also can work well in a quarter system, for which traditional texts may be t…
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 …