Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology - Brossura

Lavenda, Robert; Schultz, Emily

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0072818603 ISBN 13: 9780072818604

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Riassunto

Designed to address the needs of anthropology professors who prefer to make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings in their courses, this is a concise, accurate introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology. Not a standard textbook, Core Concepts is more like an annotated bibliography of the terms and concepts that anthropologists use in their work. The book will prepare students to read ethnography more effectively and with less confusion and misunderstanding.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert H. Lavenda is Professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University, and is director of the Latin American Studies Program. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Indiana University in 1977 and has done fieldwork in Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and small-town Minnesota. He is the author of Corn Fests and Water Carnivals: Celebrating Community in Minnesota, numerous articles on festivals and play, and is co-author of three anthropology textbooks. His special interests are play, festival behavior, world view, culture and communication, Latin America, and North American culture.

Contenuti:

Preface

Chapter 1. Anthropology

Chapter 2. Culture

Chapter 3. Language

Chapter 4. Culture and the Individual

Chapter 5. Religion and Worldview

Chapter 6. The Dimensions of Social Organization

Chapter 7. Political Anthropology

Chapter 8. Economic Anthropology

Chapter 9. Kinship and Descent

Chapter 10. Marriage and Family

Chapter 11. Globalization and the Culture of Capitalism

Chapter 12. Theory in Cultural Anthropology

Bibliography

Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072818603
• ISBN 13: 9780072818604
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 237