Investigating Culture : An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

Delaney, Carol; Kaspin, Deborah (CON)

ISBN 10: 1118868625 / ISBN 13: 9781118868621

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017

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The third edition of Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology, the highly praised innovative approach to introducing aspects of cultural anthropology to students, features a series of revisions, updates, and new material.

• Offers a refreshing alternative to introductory anthropology texts by challenging students to think in new ways and apply cultural learnings to their own lives
• Chapters explore key anthropological concepts of human culture including: language, the body, food, and time, and provide an array of cultural examples in which to examine them
• Incorporates new material reflecting the authors’ research in Malawi, New England, and Spain
• Takes account of the latest information on such topical concerns as nuclear waste, sports injuries, the World Trade Center memorial, the food pyramid, fashion trends, and electronic media
• Includes student exercises, selected reading and additional suggested readings

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Carol Delaney is Associate Professor Emerita of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is author of The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society (1991), Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth (1998), and Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem (2011).

Deborah Kaspin is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College and has also taught at Yale University, the University of Virginia, and Wheaton College. She is editor of Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (2002) with Paul Landau.

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Titel: Investigating Culture : An Experiential ...
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good
Auflage: 3. Auflage