Why Humans Have Cultures: Explaining Anthropology and Social Diversity

by Michael Carrithers

Book Overview

Why Humans Have Cultures examines three basic questions: what unity underlies human cultural diversity? What are the origins of that diversity? How can we understand it? The author argues that it is the ways in which people interact--rather than technological advances--that have been of crucial importance in human history. In this thought-provoking book, Carrithers draws on ancient and contemporary examples to show how this perspective forms a solid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192892118
• ISBN13: 9780192892119
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"