(eBook PDF) Anthropology: Asking Questions About Human Origins, Diversity, and Culture 2nd Edition

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product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190057378
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190057374
• Author: Robert L. Welsch (Author), Luis A. Vivanco (Author), Agustín Fuentes (Author)

This general anthropology text takes a holistic approach that emphasizes critical thinking, active learning, and applying anthropology to solve contemporary human problems. Building on the classical foundations of the discipline, Anthropology: Asking Questions About Human Origins, Diversity, and Culture, Second Edition, shows students how anthropology is connected to such current topics as food, health and medicine, and the environment. Full of relevant examples and current topics–with a focus on contemporary problems and questions–the book demonstrates the diversity and dynamism of anthropology today.

table of contents:

Part I: KEY CONCEPTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

1. Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity

2. Culture: Giving Meaning to Human Lives

3. Human Biocultural Evolution: Emergence of the Biocultural Animal

4. Cross-Cultural Interactions: Understanding Global Culture

Part II: BECOMING HUMAN

5. Living Primates: Comparing Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

6. Ancestral Humans: Understanding the Human Family Tree

7. Human Biodiversity Today: Understanding our Differences and Similarities

8. The Body: Biocultural Perspectives on Health and Illness

Part III: HUMANS AND THEIR MATERIAL WORLDS

9. Materiality: Constructing Social Relationships and Meanings with Things

10. Neolithic Revolutions: Modifying the Environment to Satisfy Human Demands

11. Cities and States: Understanding Social Complexity in Prehistory

12. Linguistic Anthropology: Relating Language and Culture

13. Economics: Working, Sharing, and Buying

14. Sustainability: Environment and Foodways

15. Politics: Power and Social Control

16. Kinship and Gender: Sex, Power, and Control of Men and Women

17. Religion: Ritual and Belief

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