Cultural Anthropology
- ISBN-10
- 0205401392
- ISBN-13
- 9780205401390
- Series
- Cultural Anthropology
- Category
- Ethnology
- Pages
- 500
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Allyn & Bacon
- Author
- Barbara D. Miller
Description
----STUDENT EDITION---- The first mainstream book to truly integrate coverage of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and age continues to win high praise. One user writes, "" Miller's text offers clarity and an attention to diversity and inequality in human experience that the students really appreciate." " Emphasizing social inequality, this contemporary introductory textbook explains how inequalities affect economy, kinship, politics, religion, and language while still covering the core concepts of cultural anthropology. Special Features: Integrates coverage of contemporary issues suCh. as health systems, migration, and development throughout the text to highlight the practical applications and relevance of cultural anthropological studies. More focus on theory in cultural anthropology with a new section on the history of theory (Ch. 1) and more explicit links to theory in the Critical Thinking boxes in every chapter. Development Anthropology includes new discussions and the latest researCh. on the relationship between development on indigenous peoples, social inequality, and new examples of human resistance in the face of large-scale exogenous development (Ch. 16). Back by popular demand, Miller's migration chapter, " People on the Move" -- unique in this market-- returns as Chapter 15. New layout, larger pages, and attractive design combine to make this Third Edition even more accessible to students! Boxed Features show the interconnection of Anthropology to other disciplines and to career opportunities: Lessons Applied illustrates how anthropological knowledge impacts the" real world" through vital contributions to social projects and policy. Unity and Diversity boxed features present cultural examples from the perspectives of both difference and similarity. While most writings of cultural anthropologists document variation and diversity, it is important to remember that humans everywhere share certain features of life in common. Critical Thinking boxes present a topic, often from two different angles, and then ask questions that provide critical thinking reviews and possible assignments for students. ----EXAM COPY EDITION---- The first mainstream book to truly integrate coverage of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and age continues to win high praise. One user writes, "" Miller's text offers clarity and an attention to diversity and inequality in human experience that the students really appreciate." " Emphasizing social inequality, this contemporary introductory textbook explains how inequalities affect economy, kinship, politics, religion, and language while still covering the core concepts of cultural anthropology. Special Features: Integrates coverage of contemporary issues suCh. as health systems, migration, and development throughout the text to highlight the practical applications and relevance of cultural anthropological studies. More focus on theory in cultural anthropology with a new section on the history of theory (Ch. 1) and more explicit links to theory in the Critical Thinking boxes in every chapter. Development Anthropology includes new discussions and the latest researCh. on the relationship between development on indigenous peoples, social inequality, and new examples of human resistance in the face of large-scale exogenous development (Ch. 16). Back by popular demand, Miller's migration chapter, " People on the Move" -- unique in this market-- returns as Chapter 15. New layout, larger pages, and attractive design combine to make this Third Edition even more accessible to students! Boxed Features show the interconnection of Anthropology to other disciplines and to career opportunities: Lessons Applied illustrates how anthropological knowledge impacts the " real world" through vital contributions to social projects and policy. Unity and Diversity boxed features present cultural examples from the perspectives of both difference and similarity. While most writings of cultural anthropologists document variation and diversity, it is important to remember that humans everywhere share certain features of life in common. Critical Thinking boxes present a topic, often from two different angles, and then ask questions that provide critical thinking reviews and possible assignments for students.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2020-11
- - pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
Similar books
-
Troubled Minds: On the Cultural Construction of Mental Disorder and Normality in Southern Malawi
By Arne S. SteinforthJohnson , Frederick 2003 [ 1939 ] A Standard Swahili - English Dictionary . Nairobi : Oxford University Press . Mangoche , Mbeer V.B. 1995 Chichewa Guide for Tourists . Blantyre : Dzuka Publishing . Massana , Joseph M. 2005 [ 2000 ] ...
-
Native American Life-history Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography
By Susan Berry Brill de RamírezThe author provides methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts and disputes some previous assumptions about the sources of the stories in Son of Old Man Hat.
-
The Usborne Book of Peoples of the World: Internet-linked
By Anna Claybourne, Gillian DohertyThis book introduces students to the key critical debates under five headings: genre, history and politics, gender and sexuality, language and performance.
-
People of the South-western Highlands: Gusii
By William Robert Ochieng'People of the South-western Highlands: Gusii
-
The North American Indian: Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion...
By Frederick Webb Hodge"[A] comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions.
-
The North American Indian: Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion...
By Frederick Webb Hodge"[A] comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions.
-
Social Anthropology: Canadian Perspectives on Culture and Society
By Edward HedicanReprinted by permission of Glenbow Museum. Photo 8.2: Blackfoot warriors, C-019089, Patent and Copyright Office, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa. Reprinted by permission of Library and Archives Canada. Photo 8.3: Edward S. Curtis, ...
-
Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition
By Emily Ann Schultz, Robert H. LavendaNILES BURNEY JOHN R BURKE • CLOUTIER · FREDERICK H ELIZONDO • WILLIAM C GUNTER : DARRELLI HEAHERNESTO THOMS ON LVIN S HOOVER CHARLES A HUBBARD - JIMMY KEMP · LARRY É LAWRENCE MCMURDO . WILLIE LEE PAGE • DAVID F SHERRELL « DALE LSPEIR ...
-
Who Can Ride the Dragon?: An Exploration of the Cultural Roots of Traditional Chinese Medicine
By Yu Huan Zhang, Ken RoseThe work of Liu He Jian , however , served to foster the development of one of four contesting schools of thought . Liu's theory was known as the “ principle of heat . ” He held that all accumulations of qi would develop into heat and ...
-
Cultural Anthropology
By Carol R. EmberHunter - Gatherers or most people in our society , getting food consists of a trip to the supermarket . I Within the space of an hour , we can gather enough food from the shelves to last us a week . Seasons don't daunt us .