A collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author.
According to archaeologist Cameron McNeil and her colleagues, the Mayans who lived in the city of Copan, Honduras, which collapsed around AD 810, were “skillful managers of their landscape.” Anthropologist and biologist Jared Diamond ...
This second edition of the best-selling textbook and anthology, Reflecting on America, again focuses on how we can recognize the common cultural thread running through diverse American phenomena from heroin addiction and Big Business‘s ...
How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study.
The latest edition of a major literature guide provides citations and informative annotations on a wide range of reference sources, including manuals, bibliographies, indexes, databases, literature surveys and reviews, dissertations, book ...
The Study of Cultural Anthropology
In all this, the authors are faithful both to Christianity and anthropology. This book will provide much food for thought to Christians interested in discovering the value of anthropology for life, ministry, and practice.
Written by one of the most famous modern anthropologists, the fifth edition of Cultural Anthropology continues to focus on the book's two major objectives. First, it presents a holistic view...
The Fifth Edition includes new examples and vignettes that are important to the study of cultural anthropology.
Later books include Crime and custom in savage society (1926), Sex and repression in savage society (1927), The sexual life of savages (1929), and Coral gardens and their magic (1935). Malinowski visited several American universities ...