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Introduction to Anthropology
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hasty, Jennifer, author.
- Lewis, David G., author.
- Snipes, Marjorie M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Textbooks.
- Social sciences.
- Anthropology--Textbooks.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] OpenStax 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, OpenStax Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning. The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on anthropology as a living and evolving field. There is significant discussion of recent efforts to make the field more diverse—in its practitioners, in the questions it asks, and in the applications of anthropological research to address contemporary challenges. In addressing social inequality, the text drives readers to consider the rise and impact of social inequalities based on forms of identity and difference (such as gender, ethnicity, race, and class) as well as oppression and discrimination. The contributors to and dangers of socioeconomic inequality are fully addressed, and the role of inequality in social dysfunction, disruption, and change is noted.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 What Is Anthropology?
- Chapter 2 Methods: Cultural and Archaeological
- Chapter 3 Culture Concept Theory: Theories of Cultural Change
- Chapter 4 Biological Evolution and Early Human Evidence
- Chapter 5 The Genus Homo and the Emergence of Us
- Chapter 6 Language and Communication
- Chapter 7 Work, Life, and Value: Economic Anthropology
- Chapter 8 Authority, Decisions, and Power: Political Anthropology
- Chapter 9 Social Inequality
- Chapter 10 The Global Impact of Human Migration
- Chapter 11 Forming Family through Kinship
- Chapter 12 Gender and Sexuality
- Chapter 13 Religion and Culture
- Chapter 14 Anthropology of Food
- Chapter 15 Anthropology of Media
- Chapter 16 Art, Music, and Sport
- Chapter 17 Medical Anthropology
- Chapter 18 Human-Animal Relationship
- Chapter 19 Indigenous Anthropology
- Chapter 20 Anthropology on the Ground
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource
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