Cultural anthropology : appreciating cultural diversity

Offers a holistic introduction to general anthropology from the four-field perspective. This book focuses on an increasingly interconnected world, and includes essays that examine topics as diverse as tourism in the ancient and modern worlds, global disease pandemics, world events and the expansion...

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Main Author: Kottak, Conrad Phillip (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill , c2013
Edition:15th ed
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300 |a xxv, 417 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 28 cm. 
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505 0 |a 1. What Is Anthropology? -- 2. Culture -- 3. Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology -- 4. Applying Anthropology -- 5. Language and Communication -- 6. Ethnicity and Race -- 7. Making a Living -- 8. Political Systems -- 9. Gender -- 10. Families, Kinships, and Descent -- 11. Marriage -- 12. Religion -- 13. Arts, Media, and Sports -- 14. The World System and Colonialism -- 15. Anthropology's role in a Globalizing world 
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