The text is updated throughout, including the latest research and areas of topical interest, while maintaining the overall text length.
Emphasis on pedagogy continues with new and updated TRY THIS features in each chapter, reflecting the author’s commitment to teaching.
The same strong visual material program is found in this edition.
New and Updated Anthropology Around Us Boxes. These boxes focus on current and timely issues that illustrate how the perspectives, topics, and concepts of anthropology are part of our everyday lives. Changes include
Substantial update of Chapter 2 box "Cute Protein"
Substantial update of Chapter 5 box "Edible Insects"
New title for Chapter 6 box, “Vote with Your Fork? and new material on the Slow Food and Locavore movements
Updates to other boxes throughout.
Chapter 3 includes new text and examples in the section Adapting Physically and Psychologically to the fieldwork situation.
Chapter 4 is updated and includes new material in the Language and Culture section on the debate over the Amazonian Pirahã tribe’s language, its relevance to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and the defining features of human language.
Chapter 5 material on foragers includes additional examples on the Washoe, Inuit, and Ju/’hoansi; the section on Foragers Today also is updated.
Chapter 6 is expanded, including additional examples and a new section titled Agriculture and Globalization that examines the globalization of Western agricultural methods and the future of food production by exploring the pros and cons of agriculture models based on production maximization or sustainability. The Anthropology Around Us box is updated and expanded and is now titled Vote with Your Fork?
Chapter 7, Marriage, Family, and Residence, is updated with the addition of same-sex marriage coverage.
Chapter 12, Expressions, has a new section called Body Art that includes tattooing, piercing, and body modifications plus discussion of the functions of such decorative expressions historically and across cultures.
In Chapter 13, Culture Change and Globalization, is a new section titled Ethics Then and Now that examines, from a historical perspective, issues of anthropologists working in culture change programs. It addresses issues of professional responsibility in work for governments, including counterinsurgency. The section Human Problems in Change now includes a new case study titled A Case Study of Development with a Negative Outcome.
Chapter 14, Applying Anthropology, is updated with new discussion and two new case studies under the section Anthropology in Business: A Case Study of Organizational Culture and Case Studies in Design Anthropology.
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