Anthropology : the human challenge
| Main Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Cengage Learning ,
c2017
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| Edition: | 15th ed |
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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