Anthropology : the human challenge

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Haviland, William A. (Author), McBride, Bunny (Author), Prins, Harald E. L. (Author), Walrath, Dana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Massachusetts : Cengage Learning , c2017
Edition:15th ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The essence of anthropology
  • 2. Biology, genetics, and evolution
  • 3. Living primates
  • 4. Primate behavior
  • 5. Field methods in archaeology and paleoanthropology
  • 6. From first primates to first bipeds
  • 7. Origins of the genus homo
  • 8. The global expansion of homo sapiens and their technology
  • 9. The neolithic revolution: the domestication of plants and animals
  • 10. The emergence of cities and states
  • 11. Modern human diversity: race and racism
  • 12. Human adaptation to a changing world
  • 13. Characteristics of culture
  • 14. Ethnographic research: its history, methods, and theories
  • 15. Language and communication
  • 16. Social identity, personality, and gender
  • 7. Patterns of subsistence
  • 18. Economic systems
  • 19. Sex, marriage, and family
  • 20. Kinship and descent
  • 21. Grouping by gender, age, common interest, and social status
  • 22. Politics, power, war, and peace
  • 23. Spirituality, religion, and shamanism
  • 24. The arts
  • 25. Processes of cultural change
  • 26. Global challenges, local responses, and the role of anthropology