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Lenkeit, Roberta Edwards

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9780767412285: Introducing Cultural Anthropology

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ISBN 10: 0767412281 ISBN 13: 9780767412285

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2001

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A brief, accessible introduction to cultural anthropology with in-text activities that give students the opportunity to explore anthropology’s relevance to their own lives.

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L'autore:

Roberta Edwards Lenkeit is currently professor of anthropology at Modesto Junior College, Modesto, California where she has taught since 1976. She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara where, as a teaching assistant, she first learned how fun it was to share anthropology with introductory level students. After graduation, she spent four years as a full time instructor at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. She also taught as an adjunct faculty member for two years at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is the recipient of many awards of recognition for outstanding teaching by the campus chapter of Alpha Gamma Sigma. Her special interests include comparative kinship, religion, applied anthropology, hominid evolution, lithic tool technology, and Upper Paleolithic cave art. She has done fieldwork in Spain, the Cook Islands, and French Polynesia. For relaxation Roberta gardens and raises banty hens. She is the author of Introducing Cultural Anthropology (2001, Mayfield Publishing).

Contenuti:

Part I. BASIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

1. The Perspective of Anthropology

2. Culture: What Makes You a Stranger When You Are Away From Home

3. Fieldwork

4. Symbolic Communication and Culture

Part II. CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTIVE PATTERNS

5. We All Have to Eat: Obtaining Food and Allocating Resources

6. The Ties That Bind: Kinship and Family Kinship Relationships

7. Gender and Sexuality Cross-Culturally

8. Who Decides? Political Order, Disorder, and Social Control

9. Explaining the Unexplainable: Comparative Supernaturalism