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Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives 8/e
Phillip Whitten
Published December 2000 by Allyn & Bacon
Copyright 2001, 352 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-321-04704-4
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Summary

This collection of short readings on all aspects of anthropology conveys the excitement and relevance of contemporary anthropology. KEY TOPICS: This book organizes readings around the major subdisciplines within anthropology: biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and language and communication, making it easy to notice trends and themes. MARKET: For anyone with an interest in anthropology.

Features

  • Organizes the readings around the major subdisciplines within anthropology: biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and language and communication.
  • Includes articles from a broad range of sources, including major books and such journals and magazines as Natural History and Newsweek.
  • More than half of the articles have been written since 1990, with almost 30% of these published within the last five years.
  • Authors include prominent anthropologists and scientists as well as professional science and social and behavioral science writers, such as Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Fisher, Marvin Harris and Deborah Tannen.
  • Provides a glossary of key terms.
  • Comes with an Instructor's Manual that contains brief summaries of each article as well as test questions.
Table of Contents

* Denotes selections new to this edition.

Preface

I.INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY.

Topic 1: The Evolving Study of Anthropology.

 1.Phillip Whitten and David E.K. Hunter, Finding Anthropology.

II.BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

Topic 2: Human Evolution.

 2.Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinism Defined: The Difference between Fact and Theory. 3.Jared Diamond, The Great Leap Forward. 4.Shari Rudavsky, The Secret Life of the Neanderthal. 5.Robert A. Foley, The Search for Early Man. 6.Lee Cronk, Designed for Another Time: Modern Problems for an Ancient Species.
Topic 3: Evolutionary Psychology.

 7.Barbara Smuts, What Are Friends For? 8.* Marc D. Hauser, Games Primates Play. 9.Boyce Rensberger, On Becoming Human.10.* Elizabeth Cashdan, What Do Women Want?11.* Brad Lemley, Isn't She Lovely?
Topic 4: Human Diversity.

12.Boyce Rensberger, Racial Odyssey.13.Albert Jacquard, “Race”: Myths under the Microscope.14.* Barry Bogin, The Tall and the Short of It.

III.ARCHAEOLOGY.

Topic 5: Doing Archaeology.

15.Richard Monastersky, Fingerprints in the Sand.16.* William Rathje and Cullen Murphy, Garbage Demographics.17.* Heather Pringle, Temples of Doom.
Topic 6: Issues in Archaeology.

18.* Sharon Begley and Andrew Murr, The First Americans.19.* Alexander Marshack, Images of the Ice Age.20.* John Noble Wilford, The Great Leap to Agriculture.21.Solomon H. Katz and Fritz Maytag, Brewing an Ancient Beer.22.* Orrin Shane III and Mine Kucuk, The World's First City.23.* Heather Pringle, The Cradle of Cash.24.Henry T. Wright, Rise of Civilizations: Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica.25.* Karen Wright, Empires of the Dust.

IV.LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION.

Topic 7: Language, Thought, and Communication.

26.* Matt Cartmill, The Gift of Gab.27.Michael J. Frisbie, Koko: “Fine Animal Gorilla.”28.Ellen Rudolph, Women's Talk.29.* Deborah Tannen, The Power of Talk.30.Stephen Thayer, Close Encounters.31.* Joann Ellison Rodgers, Flirting Fascination.

V.CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

Topic 8: Fieldwork.

32.Laura Bohannan, Shakespeare in the Bush.33.Richard B. Lee, Eating Christmas in the Kalahari.34.Horace Miner, Body Ritual among the Nacirema.35.* Henry Fountain, Now the Ancient Ways Are Less Mysterious.
Topic 9: Kinship and Marriage.

36.Malcolm McFee and David E.K. Hunter, Marriage: For Love, Profit, or Politics?37.Laurel Kendall, The Marriage of Yongsu's Mother.
Topic 10: Political and Economic Organization.

38.Marvin Harris, Life without Chiefs.39.Allen Johnson, In Search of the Affluent Society.
Topic 11: Cultural Ecology.

40.Marvin Harris, India's Sacred Cow.41.John B. Calhoun, Plight of the Ik and Kaiadilt Is Seen as a Chilling Possible End for Humankind.
Topic 12: Society and Gender Roles.

42.* Helen Fisher, An Immodest Proposal.43.Agnes Estioko-Griffin, Daughters of the Forest.44.Cherry Lindholm and Charles Lindholm, Life behind the Veil.
Topic 13: Belief and Ritual.

45.June Nash, Devils, Witches, and Sudden Death.46.Gino del Guerico, The Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead.
Topic 14: The Impact of Modernization.

47.William W. Howells, Requiem for a Lost People.48.David Maybury-Lewis, Societies on the Brink.49.Geoffrey Cowley, The Great Disease Migration.50.* Diana Jean Schemo, The Last Tribal Battle.

VI.ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE MODERN WORLD.

Topic 15: Contemporary Applications.

51.Lynn Payer, Borderline Cases: Medical Practice and National Culture.52.Melvin Konner, The Stone-Age Diet: Cuisine Savage.53.Patrick Huyghe, No Bone Unturned.54.Daniel Goleman, Shamans and Their Lore May Vanish with the Forests.55.* Katie Hafner, Coming of Age in Palo Alto.56.* Linda Kulman, Why Buy Kazoos You Can't Use?Glossary.
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