Anthropology – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780205957187,0205957188
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0205957188
- ISBN-13 : 978-0205957187
- Author: Carol R. Ember , Melvin Ember, Peter N. Peregrine
Anthropology, provides students with a comprehensive and scientific introduction to the holistic four fields of anthropology and the important role of applied anthropology. Readers will understand humans in all their variety, and why such variety exists. It also show students how anthropological skill sets can be applied beyond academia. The fourteenth edition places an increased emphasis on new explanations and the necessity to evaluate these new explanations logically as well as on the basis of the available evidence.
Table of contents:
PART I INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY?
CHAPTER 2 HOW WE DISCOVER THE PAST
PART II HUMAN EVOLUTION: BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL
CHAPTER 3 GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
CHAPTER 4 THE LIVING PRIMATES
CHAPTER 5 PRIMATE EVOLUTION: FROM EARLY PRIMATES TO HOMINOIDS
CHAPTER6 THE FIRST HOMINIDS
CHAPTER 7 THE ORIGINS OF CULTURE AND THE EMERGENCE OF HOMO
PART III MODERN HUMANS
CHAPTER 8 THE EMERGENCE OF HOMO SAPIENS
CHAPTER 9 THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC WORLD
CHAPTER 10 ORIGINS OF FOOD PRODUCTION AND SETTLED LIFE
CHAPTER 11 ORIGINS OF CITIES AND STATES
CHAPTER 12 HUMAN VARIATION AND ADAPTATION
PART IV CULTURAL VARIATION
CHAPTER 13 THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE
CHAPTER 14 THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
CHAPTER 15 EXPLANATION AND EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 16 COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE
CHAPTER 17 GETTING FOOD
CHAPTER 18 ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 19 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: CLASS, ETHNICITY, AND RACISM
CHAPTER 20 SEX, GENDER, AND CULTURE
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