Cultural Anthropology (4th Edition) (MyAnthroLab Series) - Softcover

Barbara D. Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205488080 ISBN 13: 9780205488087

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

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Show students how anthropology can help them understand today’s world
Cultural Anthropology presents a balanced introduction to the world’s cultures, focusing on how they interact and change. Author Barbara Miller provides many points where readers can interact with the material, and encourages students to think critically about other cultures as well as their own. Featuring the latest research and statistics throughout, the eighth edition has been updated with contemporary examples of anthropology in action, addressing recent newsworthy events such as the Ebola epidemic.

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About this title

From the Back Cover:

Cultural Anthropology, Second Edition
Barbara Miller, The George Washington University
STUDY EDITION

• Chapter Quizzes at the end of the book—30 multiple choice questions per chapter—give students the chance to gauge their knowledge about the material in the text and to prepare for exams.
• Ready-made midterm and final exams are written in the same style as the quizzes, offering a complete testing system for the course.
• Free when packaged with the text, an optional chapter quiz solutions manual allows students the opportunity for self-testing.

About the Author:

“Cultural anthropology is exciting because it CONNECTS with everything, from FOOD to ART. And it can help prevent or SOLVE

world problems related to social inequality and injustice.” - BARBARA D. MILLER

 

Barbara Miller is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, and Director of the Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) Research and Policy Program, at The George Washington University. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Syracuse University in 1978. Before coming to GW in 1994, she taught at the University of Rochester, SUNY Cortland, Ithaca College, Cornell University, and the University of Pittsburgh.

 

Barbara’s research has focused mainly on gender-based inequalities in India, especially the nutritional and medical neglect of daughters in the northern part of the country. She has also conducted research on culture and rural development in Bangladesh, on low-income household dynamics in Jamaica, and on Hindu adolescents in Pittsburgh.

 

Her current interests include continued research on India along with attention to the role of cultural anthropology in informing policy issues, especially as related to women, children, and other disenfranchised people.

 

She teaches courses on introductory cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, development anthropology, culture and population, health and development in South Asia, migration and mental health, and culture and security.

 

In addition to many journal articles and book chapters, she has published several books: The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 1997), an edited volume, Sex and Gender Hierarchies (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and a co-edited volume with Alf Hiltebeitel, Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures (SUNY Press, 1998). She is the author of Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World (Pearson, 2008) and the lead author of Anthropology (Pearson, 2nd ed., 2008).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0205488080
• ISBN 13: 9780205488087
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 544