All Chapters Included
, Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - What Is Anthropology?
Chapter 2 - Culture
Chapter 3 - Doing Anthropology
Chapter 4 - Language and Communication
Chapter 5 - Making a Living
Chapter 6 - Political Systems
Chapter 7 - Families, Kinship, and Marriage
Chapter 8 - Gender
Chapter 9 - Religion
Chapter 10 - Ethnicity and Race
Chapter 11 - Applying Anthropology
Chapter 12 - The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality
Chapter 13 - Anthropology’s Role in a Globalizing World
,Answers at the end of each chapter
, Chapter 01 13e
1) This chapter begins with a commonly heard opinion: "People are pretty
much the same all over the world." Why is this assumption often wrong? How
might your consideration of thisunderstanding affect how you would design an
anthropological study?
2) What is culture? How do anthropologists define and study culture?
3) What does holism refer to? Why is the concept central to anthropology?
How does thisconcept relate to the "four-field" approach within the discipline?
Have you encountered this concept in any of your other classes?
4) This chapter provides an example of human adaptation to high altitude to
illustrate thevarious forms of cultural and biological adaptation. Can you think
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