Cultural anthropology 10th edition

Names: Scupin, Raymond, author. Singapore Description: Tenth edition. S39 DDC The text casts an inquiring eye on materials from numerous geographical regions and historical The world has become a small place.

Global communications, eras to enrich student understanding. A diachronic approach international trade, geopolitical events with worldwide impact, also characterizes this textbook.

In evaluating human evolu- and ease of travel have brought people and cultures into more tion, prehistoric events, language divergence, or developments intimate contact than ever before, forcing this generation of in social structure, anthropologists must rely on models that students to become more knowledgeable about societies other reflect changes through time, so this diachronic orientation than their own. This textbook is grounded in the belief that an suffuses the text.

Through exploring the range of human diversity, each of the subfields In previous editions of this textbook, we emphasized three of anthropology helps liberate students from a narrow, paro- unifying themes that structured the material presented. These chial view and enables them to appreciate the full sweep of the have been retained and expanded in this edition.

The first two human condition. To achieve these two skills to generalize from specific data, contributes signifi- objectives, we pay as much attention to universal human char- cantly to a well-rounded education.

This text engages read- acteristics as we do to local cultural contexts and conditions. This reflects a commitment to anthro- and both the positive and negative consequences of this reality. It spells out how We draw on anthropological studies to discover how people are the four basic subfields of anthropology—biological anthro- responding to the process of globalization. We call this Because the subfields often overlap, insights from all of them the synthetic-complementary approach, which views the scien- are woven together to reveal the holistic fabric of a particular tific method and the methods in the humanities as comple- society or the threads uniting all of humanity.

In examin- mentary and suggests that one is incomplete without the other. Contemporary anthropologists made it much more of a centerpiece in this edition. This third draw on the findings of biologists, paleontologists, geologists, important theme dovetails with the two other themes, demon- economists, historians, psychologists, sociologists, politi- strating how human behavior is unique to a specific culture yet cal scientists, religious studies specialists, philosophers, and also universal.

In addition to enlarging the scope of the late Eric Wolf emphasized that anthropology has always had text, exploring interactions between anthropology and other one foot in the sciences and one foot in the humanities.

This fields sparks the critical imagination that brings the learning observation is evermore true today. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Search Start Search. Go directly to our online catalogue. Buy Print Edition. Schultz and Robert H. New to this Edition A new Chapter 10 on sex, gender, and sexuality Integrated material on relationships and marriage and family An expanded discussion of anthropology and ethics New sections on humanitarianism and humanitarian reason, territorial citizenship, and vernacular statecraft.

Reviews " Cultural Anthropology is comprehensive, and the case studies and examples show both the breadth and the depth of the material. Davis, Western Illinois University " Cultural Anthropology is very effective in communicating the relevancy of ethnographic research to undergraduate introductory-level students.

Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1. What Is the Anthropological Perspective? What Is Anthropology? What Is the Concept of Culture? Why Is the Concept of Culture Important?

How Do Anthropologists Define Culture? What Is Ethnocentrism? What Is Cultural Relativism? Does Culture Explain Everything? What Is Ethnographic Fieldwork? What Is the Fieldwork Experience Like? What Is the Dialectic of Fieldwork? How Can Anthropologists Move beyond the Dialectic? How Does Fieldwork Affect Informants? Does Fieldwork Have Humanizing Effects? How Is Knowledge Produced?

Is Anthropological Knowledge Open Ended? What Is Human Language? Why Do Anthropologists Study Language? Language and Context --Ethno Profile 5. What Are the Components of Language? What Is the Relation of Pidgins and Creoles? How Do We Make Meaning? What Is Play? We don't recognize your username or password.

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Cultural Anthropology, 10th Edition. Ember, Human Relations Area Files. Availability This title is out of print. Description For introductory courses in Cultural Anthropology. NEW - Heavily revised chapter on social stratification Ch. NEW - Expanded coverage of applied and practicing anthropology Ch. Students get to become an ethnographer in a Mexican village, view tribal rituals via exclusive video clips, and observe animations such as mitosis, meiosis, or the path of the Kula Ring.

Allows students to experience anthropology firsthand through simulations, animations, and video. Important Series of Boxes Applied Anthropology boxes. Research Frontiers boxes. Current Issues boxes. New Perspectives on Gender boxes. Expanded Pedagogy Chapter-opening Outlines. Chapter-end Internet Exercises. Presents students with web-based resources on topics covered within each chapter.

Chapter-end Critical Questions. Chapter-end Glossary Terms. New to This Edition. Heavily revised chapter on social stratification Ch.