A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America Regna Darnell. to confound the role urged on him by colleagues from Chicago sociology and psychiatry as a purveyor of the exotic. Indeed, Sapir had long argued that the challenge ...
Updated and expanded throughout, this second edition explores new topics, revisits key issues, and examines recent innovations and discoveries in biological anthropology such as race and human variation, epidemiology and catastrophic ...
General Anthropology
Beautifully illustrated with over 100 full-color images and maps, along with detailed figures and boxes, this is an anthropology book with a fresh perspective and a lively narrative that is filled with popular topics.
Anthropological Lives introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work anthropologists do, the passions they have, the way that being an anthropologist affects the kind of life they lead.
Cultural Anthropology: Global forces, local lives is an accessible ethnographically rich cultural anthropology textbook which gives a coherent and refreshingly new vision of the discipline and its subject matter--human diversity.
This is a collection that stands to serve both scholars and students.
Humboldt, Alexander von, 133, 167 Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 133 Hume, David, 8 Hunt, George, 125, 174 Hunter, ... Dr. Abraham, 175–176 Jenks, Albert E., 104 Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 17, 140, 167, 172 Kalahari Debate, 15, 29, ...
This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward Sapir was among the most distinguished.
like other collections of papers related to a single topic, this volume arose out of problem-sharing and problem-solving discussions among some of the authors.