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9780759109759

Invitation to Anthropology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780759109759

  • ISBN10:

    0759109753

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-03-31
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

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Summary

Luke Eric Lassiter's concise introduction to anthropology offers a fresh and accessible approach for students. Lassiter provides new ethnographic examples and concepts, new illustrations, and a brand-new glossary. Part I focuses on the underlying assumptions and concepts that have driven anthropological theory and practice since its modern inception. Part II explores cross-cultural human issues, showing how anthropological studies offer relevant insight into human beings and valuable models for thinking and acting. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Luke Eric Lassiter is professor of humanities and anthropology and director of Graduate Humanities at Marshall University Graduate College in South Charleston, West Virginia

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition ix
PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURE, AND ETHNOGRAPHY
1(100)
Evolution and the Critique of Race: A Short Story
3(30)
Anthropology and Culture
33(34)
Ethnography
67(34)
PART II: ETHNOLOGY: SOME HUMAN ISSUES
101(88)
History, Change, and Adaptation: On the Roots of Our World System
103(24)
Sex, Power, and Inequality: On Gender
127(22)
Work, Success, and Kids: On Marriage, Family, and Kinship
149(24)
Knowledge, Belief, and Disbelief: On Religion
173(16)
Afterword 189(4)
Glossary 193(10)
Bibliography and Suggested Readings 203(10)
Index 213(10)
About the Author 223

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