Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology: Canadian Edition
- ISBN-10
- 0190165936
- ISBN-13
- 9780190165932
- Series
- Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2023-03-30
- Authors
- Robert H. Lavenda, Emily A. Schultz, Michel E. Bouchard
Description
Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology, first Canadian edition is a clearly written, concise cultural anthropology text with a distinctive Canadian perspective as it provides students with the key ideas, terms, and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology. This text is designed forcourses that make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings while asserting current examples and covering the works of diverse scholars in Canada and abroad. Not a standard textbook, Core Concepts offers an elaborated discussion in accessible prose that can be used flexible asa core text or a supporting supplement.Discussing the use of engaged anthropology in today's world, this text explores how decolonizing anthropology approaches colonialism and its effects and ramification on Indigenous peoples of Canada, part of anthropology's origins, and Canadian identity. of the key terms and concepts thatanthropologists use in their work. The text also includes coverage of perspectives reflecting Canada's diversity, with particular focus on research conducted among Indigenous communities, Anthropocene. and the ethical and collaborative research practices students need to mark their path forward intheir studies. The book prepares students to read ethnographies more effectively and with better understanding of the history and origins of those terms and concepts.
