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Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of ANTHROPOLOGY: The Human Challenge, International Edition provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you make sense of today's world. With this text you will discover the different ways humans face the challenge of existence, the connection between biology and culture in the shaping of human behavior, and the impact of globalization on peoples and cultures around the world.
List of contents
PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY: THE CHALLENGE OF KNOWING HUMANITY.1. The Essence of Anthropology.2. Genetics and Evolution.3. Living Primates.4. Primate Behavior.PART II: EVOLUTION: THE CHALLENGE OF UNDERSTANDING HUMAN ORIGINS.5. Field Methods in Archaeology & Paleoanthropology.6. Macroevolution and the Early Primates.7. The First Bipeds.PART III: THE GENUS HOMO: BIOCULTURAL CHALLENGES.8. Early Homo and the Origins of Culture.9. The Global Expansion of Homo sapiens and Their Technology.PART IV: HUMAN BIOCULTURAL EVOLUTION: THE CHALLENGE OF TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN DIVERSITY.10. The Neolithic Transition: The Domestication of Plants and Animals.11. The Emergence of Cities & States.12. Modern Human Diversity: Race and Racism.13. Human Adaptation to a Changing World.14. Characteristics of Culture.15. Ethnographic Research: Its History, Methods, and Theories.16. Language and Communication.17. Social Identity, Personality, and Gender.18. Patterns of Subsistence.19. Economic Systems.20. Sex, Marriage, and Family.21. Kinship and Descent.22. Grouping by Gender, Age, Common Interest, and Class.23. Politics, Power, and Violence.24. Spirituality, Religion, and the Supernatural.25. The Arts.26. Processes of Change.27. Global Challenges, Local Responses, and the Role of Anthropology.Glossary.Bibliography.Credits.Index.
