Feature Summary- Case studies allowing students to use the ideas in understanding specific cultures are located throughout the text.
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Broad questions to introduce each chapter focuse the students' reading.
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Maps, illustrations, and pictures allows students to geographically locate and visualize the societies in the text.
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Theory and history of the anthropological study of gender in each section helps students to understand the changing context of gender studies.
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In Section 1, prehistoric and archaeological data invites students to challenge their understanding of the past.
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Chapter 10, Colonialism, Transnationalism and Development, challenges students to look at the history of colonialism and the role that it has played in creating new gender concepts throughout the world.
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The final chapter on sex, gender, and diversity forces students to question the core definitions of sex, gender, sexual preference, and changes in identities.
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2004 McGraw-Hill Higher Education