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Build your own awareness of cultures around the world with CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY! Emphasizing the issues of gender, stratification, ethnicity, globalization, and the similarities and differences among all cultures, this anthropology text provides you with the tools you need to succeed. Take advantage of CengageNOW, which saves you time and enhances your performance in the course through Pre-Tests, Personalized Study Plans and Post-Test materials.
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"The text is highly readable without being simplistic...it covers all the variations in the anthropological terrain without sacrificing depth."
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"This text has moved right along with technology, has excellent supplementary material, keeps up on current issues, and incorporates interesting findings from recent research."
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"Attractive presentation, lavish production...offers instructors great flexibility in structuring both their course as well as individual class presentations."
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"This text is comprehensive for an introductory class in Cultural Anthropology. Even though it does not fall under Applied Anthropology, with its ample examples under Anthropology Makes a Difference it provides sufficient applied information to students."
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This is a mainstream comprehensive cultural anthropology text with a balanced theoretical perspective. The text has always had as its signature, the extended ethnographies within each chapter as well as excellent coverage of gender and ethnicity. The Eighth Edition features a new companion CD, packaged for free with new copies of the text as well as a robust and content-rich Web site to accompany the text.
About the Author
Serena Nanda is professor emeritus of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Her most recent book is THE GIFT OF THE BRIDE: A TALE OF ANTHROPOLOGY, MATRIMONY, AND MURDER, a novel set in an Indian immigrant community in New York City. Her other published works include NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN: THE HIJRAS OF INDIA, winner of the 1990 Ruth Benedict Prize; AMERICAN CULTURAL PLURALISM AND LAW; GENDER DIVERSITY: CROSS-CULTURAL VARIATIONS; and a New York City guidebook, NEW YORK MORE THAN EVER: 40 PERFECT DAYS IN AND AROUND THE CITY. She has always been captivated by the stories people tell and by the tapestry of human diversity. Anthropology was the perfect way for her to immerse herself in these passions, and through teaching, to spread the word about the importance of understanding both human differences and human similarities. Richard L. Warms is professor of anthropology at Texas State University-San Marcos. His published works include ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY and SACRED REALMS: ESSAYS IN RELIGION, BELIEF, AND SOCIETY, as well as journal articles on commerce, religion, and ethnic identity in West Africa; African exploration and romanticism; and African veterans of French colonial armed forces. Warms's interests in anthropology were kindled by college courses and by his experiences as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa. He has traveled extensively in Africa, Europe, and Asia. He continues to teach Introduction to Cultural Anthropology every year but also teaches classes in anthropological theory, the anthropology of religion, economic anthropology, and film at both the undergraduate and graduate level. His current projects include an encyclopedia of theory in social and cultural anthropology and a book about the development of anthropology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Students and faculty are invited to contact him with their comments, suggestions, and questions at
[email protected].
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"Attractive presentation, lavish production...offers instructors great flexibility in structuring both their course as well as individual class presentations." "The text is highly readable without being simplistic...it covers all the variations in the anthropological terrain without sacrificing depth." "This text is comprehensive for an introductory class in Cultural Anthropology. Even though it does not fall under Applied Anthropology, with its ample examples under Anthropology Makes a Difference it provides sufficient applied information to students." "This text has moved right along with technology, has excellent supplementary material, keeps up on current issues, and incorporates interesting findings from recent research."