Cultural Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity, 10/e
Conrad Phillip Kottak,
University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
ISBN: 0072832258 Copyright year: 2004
Feature Summary
New Features:
* A NEW "Bringing it All Together" theme illustrates the holistic approach of anthropology by exploring a single topic from a four field perspective in Bringing it All Together essays.
* A New "Understanding Ourselves" theme gives facts and theories in the discipline more meaning by illustrating how these ideas help us to understand ourselves in new Understanding Ourselves paragraphs which can be found in the running text of every chapter.
* A New Atlas and Visual Guide, free with every copy of the text, offers students additional, visual reference material to help explain human diversity across time and space. A NEW Interpreting the World feature in the running text of every chapter along with NEW Atlas and Visual Guide Questions, at the end of every chapter, help tie text content to the Atlas and Visual Guide.
* Two new chapters on Methods and Ethics, replacing a single chapter in the previous edition, give expanded, appropriate coverage to these all-important topics.
* A new organization to Part 3, on Cultural Diversity, places related content closer together.
* New Part Openers describe what is to come in the part and how part chapters work together.
* Chapter-opening "In the News" vignettes (many now from 2002), have been REVISED to be tied more closely to chapter content.
* A NEW Spanish Glossary defines key terms in Spanish.
* Many NEW and REVISED supplements provide support for professors and students including for professors an all NEW lecture launcher VHS tape, a New Instructor's Resource CD-ROM with an Image Bank, PowerPoint Slides, a Test Bank and the Instructor's Manual and for both professors and students a thoroughly REVISED On Line Learning Center now containing NEW premium content with films, animations and simulations, NEW links to New York Times articles, New Atlas Activities and a NEW Audio Glossary. Proven Features:
* Chapter-opening previews provide succinct Chapter Outlines and concise Overviews and help students focus on the chapter's critical concepts.
* Helpful marginal icons tell students when more information is available and point them to particular sections on the On Line Learning Center.
* A thematic box program-"Interesting Issues" and the widely acclaimed "Beyond the Classroom"-capture student interest by focusing in on provocative issues and student research.
* An unusually rich visual program of illustrations, including photos with thought-provoking captions, make chapter material clear, understandable and inviting. The highly acclaimed map program has been further enhanced in this edition through revised orientation globes which help students figure out where in the world places under discussion are located.
* Easy-to-use end-of-chapter reviews including summaries, glossaries, critical thinking, atlas and visual guide and Internet exercises, and suggested readings facilitate chapter review and further study.
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