The first mainstream book to truly integrate coverage of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and age continues to win high praise. One user writes, “Miller's text offers clarity and an attention to diversity and inequality in human experience that the students really appreciate.”

Emphasizing social inequality, this contemporary introductory textbook explains how inequalities affect economy, kinship, politics, religion, and language while still covering the core concepts of cultural anthropology.

Special Features:

• Integrates coverage of contemporary issues suCh. as health systems, migration, and development throughout the text to highlight the practical applications and relevance of cultural anthropological studies.
• More focus on theory in cultural anthropology with a new section on the history of theory (Ch. 1) and more explicit links to theory in the Critical Thinking boxes in every chapter.
• Development Anthropology includes new discussions and the latest researCh. on the relationship between development on indigenous peoples, social inequality, and new examples of human resistance in the face of large-scale exogenous development (Ch. 16).
• Back by popular demand, Miller's migration chapter, “People on the Move”--unique in this market--returns as Chapter 15.
• New layout, larger pages, and attractive design combine to make this Third Edition even more accessible to students!
• Boxed Features show the interconnection of Anthropology to other disciplines and to career opportunities:
• Lessons Applied illustrates how anthropological knowledge impacts the “real world” through vital contributions to social projects and policy.
• Unity and Diversity boxed features present cultural examples from the perspectives of both difference and similarity. While most writings of cultural anthropologists document variation and diversity, it is important to remember that humans everywhere share certain features of life in common.
• Critical Thinking boxes present a topic, often from two different angles, and then ask questions that provide critical thinking reviews and possible assignments for students.

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The first mainstream book to truly integrate coverage of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and age continues to win high praise. One user writes, “Miller's text offers clarity and an attention to diversity and inequality in human experience that the students really appreciate.”

Emphasizing social inequality, this contemporary introductory textbook explains how inequalities affect economy, kinship, politics, religion, and language while still covering the core concepts of cultural anthropology.

Special Features:

• Integrates coverage of contemporary issues suCh. as health systems, migration, and development throughout the text to highlight the practical applications and relevance of cultural anthropological studies.
• More focus on theory in cultural anthropology with a new section on the history of theory (Ch. 1) and more explicit links to theory in the Critical Thinking boxes in every chapter.
• Development Anthropology includes new discussions and the latest researCh. on the relationship between development on indigenous peoples, social inequality, and new examples of human resistance in the face of large-scale exogenous development (Ch. 16).
• Back by popular demand, Miller's migration chapter, “People on the Move”--unique in this market--returns as Chapter 15.
• New layout, larger pages, and attractive design combine to make this Third Edition even more accessible to students!
• Boxed Features show the interconnection of Anthropology to other disciplines and to career opportunities:
• Lessons Applied illustrates how anthropological knowledge impacts the “real world” through vital contributions to social projects and policy.
• Unity and Diversity boxed features present cultural examples from the perspectives of both difference and similarity. While most writings of cultural anthropologists document variation and diversity, it is important to remember that humans everywhere share certain features of life in common.
• Critical Thinking boxes present a topic, often from two different angles, and then ask questions that provide critical thinking reviews and possible assignments for students.

• Emphasizes the themes of social inequality, diversity, critical thinking, and contemporary issues to demonstrate the practical applications and relevance of cultural anthropology to today's society.

• “The Big Questions” and “The Big Questions Revisted” feature makes key concepts clearer and more accessible to students by identifying “key questions” to keep in mind at the beginning of the chapter and by providing responses and a review of the key concepts at the end.

• “Unity and Diversity” boxed features present cultural examples from the perspectives of both difference and similarity, while keeping in mind that humans everywhere share common life experiences.

• Critical thinking is encouraged through out via “Critical Thinking” boxes that serve as reviews and student assignments, “Food for Thought” questions at the end of each boxed feature designed to encourage further exploration of essential concepts, and photo captions in the form of critical thinking questions.

• Employs a wide range of valuable ethnographic examples.

• Boxed features show the interconnection of anthropology to other disciplines and to career opportunities.

• Integrates coverage of contemporary issues such as health systems, migration, and development through out the text to highlight the practical applications and relevance of cultural anthropological studies.