Anthropology : the exploration of human diversity / Conrad Phillip Kottak

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : McGraw Hill Education, c1991Description: xxvi, 496 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 70356165
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN 25 .K67 1991
Contents:
The Scope of anthropology -- Field methods -- Culture -- How biological evolution occurs -- Biological diversity and race -- The Primates -- Primate behavior and society -- Early hominids -- The Emergence of modern humans -- Cultural evolution and adaptive strategies -- The Origin of food production -- Bands and tribes -- Chiefdoms and nonindustrial states -- The World system, industrialism, and stratification -- Economic systems -- Gender -- Kinship and descent -- Marriage -- Religion -- Personality and worldview -- Language -- Applied anthropology -- Social change and development -- The Future
Summary: "Having done a major revision for the fourth edition of anthropology : the exploration of human diversity, I hadn't planed to change much for the fifth edition. However, as I began considering what to revise, I discovered that all the subfields had been changing faster that I had realized."
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation General Education GC GN 25 .K67 1991 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000004369
Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation General Education GC GN 25 .K67 1991 c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.2 Available NULIB000004370

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Scope of anthropology -- Field methods -- Culture -- How biological evolution occurs -- Biological diversity and race -- The Primates -- Primate behavior and society -- Early hominids -- The Emergence of modern humans -- Cultural evolution and adaptive strategies -- The Origin of food production -- Bands and tribes -- Chiefdoms and nonindustrial states -- The World system, industrialism, and stratification -- Economic systems -- Gender -- Kinship and descent -- Marriage -- Religion -- Personality and worldview -- Language -- Applied anthropology -- Social change and development -- The Future

"Having done a major revision for the fourth edition of anthropology : the exploration of human diversity, I hadn't planed to change much for the fifth edition. However, as I began considering what to revise, I discovered that all the subfields had been changing faster that I had realized."

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