Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology , 4/e
Conrad Kottak,
University of Michigan
ISBN: 0072973285 Copyright year: 2005
Feature Summary
Offers concise coverage, making this the perfect text to use with ethnographies such as The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World (2005); order the two packaged together for substantial savings to your students!
Includes five important chapters not consistently found in cultural anthropology texts: “Ethnicity and Race” (3), “Gender” (8), “The Modern World System” (10), “Colonialism and Development” (11), and “Cultural Exchange and Survival” (12). These and other chapters explore the nature, role, and preservation of human diversity in the face of conquest and globalization.
Offers "Issues Boxes" that illustrate points with examples selected to give students an opportunity to explore anthropology's relevance to their own lives. Some boxes examine current events or debates, others offer personal accounts.
Highlights anthropology's increasingly transnational, multilocal, and longitudinal perspectives.
Includes discussions of ethnicity and nationalism in a global context, as well as of diversity and multiculturalism in North America.
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2005 McGraw-Hill Higher Education