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 …