Why Humans Have Cultures - Explaining Anthropology and Social Diversity

Informationen zum Autor Michael Carrithers is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham. Klappentext Why Humans Have Cultures examines three basic questions: what unity underlies human cultural diversity? What are the origins of that diversity? How can we understand it? The author argues that it is the ways in which people interact--rather than technological advances--that have been of crucial importance in human history. In this thought-provoking book! Carrithers draws on ancient and contemporary examples to show how this perspective forms a solid foundation for the study of culture! society! and history. Zusammenfassung Aims to provide an introduction to anthropology, showing it as an activity which helps us to understand human social and cultural diversity. This book is also an invitation to anthropologists, which began with the question: "Why do humans have such diverse cultures and ways of life?".

Product details

• Authors: Michael Carrithers, Michael (Professor of Anthropology Carrithers
• Assisted by: Michael Carrithers (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.1992
• EAN: 9780192892119
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289211-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Opus; Opus
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)