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Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
What is attempted here is an updated, reasonably consistent, and comprehensive statement of a coherent series of concepts, propositions, and theories about the past and present nature of man, culture, and society supported by factual information from the whole range of anthropology. At the same time, doors are opened and the paths to alternative paths of exploration indicated.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oneworld Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Anthropologists Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown offer the first introductory guide to explore both the biological and social study of humanity, from the roots of the Homo genus, to the traits that all humans share, to the vast range of our sacred rituals. They bring anthropology to life with case studies, explaining why witchcraft was so feared in seventeenth-century England but is embraced in contemporary Sudan, as well as what our relationship with...
Series
Publisher
Wellfleet Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet? These are perennially compelling questions about human evolution and development that continue to cudgel the best brains on earth. Know-It-All Anthropology seeks to understand the roots of our common humanity, the diversity of cultures and world-views, and the organization of social relations and practices. If you only have...
57) Anthropology
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This reader provides over 40 selections of enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped the study of anthropology and our contemporary understanding of it.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species and posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way.
