Thinking Like an Anthropologist: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Thinking Like an Anthropologist: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ISBN-10
0073195804
ISBN-13
9780073195803
Category
Social Science
Pages
464
Language
English
Published
2007-01-08
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Author
John Omohundro

Description

This exciting new text teases out the common core of the cultural anthropological way of thinking, makes it explicit in a set of eleven questions, and uses those questions to enhance learning. Each question receives treatment in a brief chapter, accompanied by several exercises and classroom demonstrations. The textbook is intended to be accompanied by—and applied to—a reader, a few ethnographies, or a monograph with topical focus such as language, globalization, technology, art, or gender. The eleven questions that organize the text can be applied singly and cumulatively to address the cultures presented in the ethnographies or case studies chosen by each instructor. A comprehensive guide written by John Omohundro assists instructors who adopt this novel approach and suggests numerous examples of ethnographies and readers that would be effective companions for the text.

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