Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition

By Emily A. Schultz and Robert H. Lavenda

Book Overview

Now more accessible and student-friendly in this full-color seventh edition, Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition explores how cultural creativity, human agency, and the material conditions of everyday life interact together to shape human cultural practices. It stresses contemporary applications and human narratives across cultures, focusing on how people bring meaning to the world and transform it through practical action. Offering solid coverage of traditional topics, the authors incorporate cutting-edge theory and explain complex ideas in accessible language. They pay special attention to issues of power and inequality in the contemporary world, including gender inequalities, racism, ethnic discrimination, nationalism, caste, and class.
Covering the material in fifteen concise chapters, Cultural Anthropology is ideal for introductory courses. It exposes students to alternative perspectives from non-anthropologists and indigenous peoples through "In Their Own Words" commentaries, and it provides ethnographic summaries of each society discussed at length in the text in "EthnoProfile" boxes. The text also features many pedagogical aids including key terms, a running glossary, chapter summaries, maps, and annotated suggestions for further reading. An Instructor's Manual and Computerized Test Bank and a Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/culturalanthro provide additional helpful resources, including a student guide with extensive study skill tips and chapter review tests.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195338502
• ISBN13: 9780195338508
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

ASB102 TEXT MR. McCAIG-PHOENIX COLLEGE

I started reading the text in preparation for Spring Semester '10 and it seems very interesting. My instructor chose this book as opposed to another text that another instructor chose for her class. I like the ETHNO PROFILES--and the book is well- written, I believe. and well-illustrated. I won't know for sure about this product until I get into it starting January 19, 2010

just as good as a used book from school, but cheaper

I am taking Anthro 201 and really only use the book for vocab. the one nice thing is that the book places definitions of each highlighted term at the bottom of the page for easy viewing