Through the Looking Glass is a brief, inexpensive collection of readings consisting of current, lively articles and book chapters taken primarily from popular books and magazines. Unlike other readers for this course, Through the Looking Glass covers the entire field of anthropology, including topics such as race, cultural diversity, evolution, prehistory, and economic development, making it the perfect supplementary reader for introductory anthropology courses.
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About the Author:
Lee Cronk is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick; he formerly taught at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from Northwestern University. His research interests in are the evolution of human behavior, Africa, and the Caribbean. He has done field research among the Mukogodo of Kenya and on the Honduran island of Utila. He is the author of popular articles in The Sciences, American Scientist, and The World & I and of scholarly articles in such journals as American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Human Nature, Annual Review of Anthropology, and Cultural Dynamics. In addition to this book, he has joined with his colleagues Napoleon A. Chagnon and William Irons to edit a collection of new studies in the evolution of human behavior entitled Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective, to be published in 1999 by Aldine de Gruyter.
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