Cultural Anthropology - Softcover

Conrad Phillip Kottak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070359075 ISBN 13: 9780070359079

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College, 1993

Synopsis

Noted for its expert scholarship and clarity of writing style, this comprehensive text offers a balanced introduction to cultural anthropology. the special theme of this edition is Preserving Cultural Diversity in the Face of Globalization. Kottak's sixth edition reflects world changes through a revision in both organization and content. Special features include two new chapters covering the demise of the Soviet Union and its attendant ethnic conflicts, the growing significance of multiculturalism in the United States, Canada and cultural survival worldwide, and anthropology's increasingly transnational, multilocal, and longitudinal perspectives. Available for the first time with the sixth edition is a new ethnograph case studies book written by Dr. Holly Peters-Golden.

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About the Author

Conrad Phillip Kottak (A.B. Columbia, 1963; Ph.D. Columbia, 1966) is the Julian H. Steward Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1968. He served as Anthropology Department chair from 1996 to 2006. In 1991 he was honored for his teaching by the University and the state of Michigan. In 1992 he received an excellence in teaching award from the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts of the University of Michigan. In 1999 the America Anthropological Association awarded Professor Kottak the AAA/Mayfield Award for Excellence in the Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0070359075
• ISBN 13: 9780070359079
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 434