Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology - Brossura

Lavenda, Robert; Schultz, Emily

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0073530980 ISBN 13: 9780073530987

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Riassunto

This concise and affordable introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology addresses the needs of anthropology professors who make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings in their courses. Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology offers a thorough annotated bibliography of the terms and concepts that anthropologists use in their work, while its conceptual and theoretical framework prepares students to read ethnography more effectively.

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:

1 Anthropology

2 Culture

3 Language

4 Culture and the Individual

5 Expressive Culture: Religion, Worldview, and Art

6 The Dimensions of Social Organization

7 Political Anthropology

8 Economic Anthropology

9 Relatedness: Kinship and Descent

10 Marriage and Family

11 Globalization

12 Theory in Cultural Anthropology

Appendix: Reading Ethnography

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0073530980
• ISBN 13: 9780073530987
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 258