Invitation to Anthropology - Softcover

Lassiter, Luke Eric

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9780759109759: Invitation to Anthropology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759109753 ISBN 13: 9780759109759

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2006

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Lassiter's concise introductory text to cultural anthropology offers a fresh and accessible approach for students. His message about the relevance of anthropology is timely and engaging, and he illustrates the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological perspective for real world problems on the local, regional, and global scale. This book is an ideal text for undergraduate students, and can be easily supplemented with case studies in anthropology.

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About the Author:

Luke Eric Lassiter is professor and Director of the Graduate Humanities Program at Marshall University Graduate College.

Review:

Invitation to Anthropology is a good, solid introduction to standard American cultural anthropology, no less enlightening and often more engaging than its more flashy competitors. (Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute)

Lassiter's introduction to anthropology promises to keep deep and strong contact with real currents of today's life and to pull students into those currents. (James L. Peacock)

Ideal for non-specialist general readers with a passing curiosity on the subject, Invitation to Anthropology, is confidently recommended as being a quite practical, well-researched and solid beginning manual to this diverse and fascinating field. (Wisconsin Bookwatch (February 2003))

Lassiter offers a fresh and accessible approach to anthropology for both the academic and the non-specialist. His evangelical message about the relevance of anthropology is timely and engaging. Moving beyond the popular stereotypes of Indiana-Jones-ish anthropologists documenting fertility dances among remote tribes, Lassiter illustrates the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological perspective for real world problems on the local, regional and global scale. (Ray, Celeste)

Lassiter offers Invitation to Anthropology to a hip-hop generation that already lives in a globalized world and is forced to grapple with complicated and fractured notions of race and culture everyday. Gone are the dated assumptions of race, language, culture, yet he maintains the best that anthropology has to offer in terms of the four-field approach, a commitment to the beauty of human diversity. Lassiter extends the rich tradition of public anthropology. It is fresh, exciting, relevant and extremely useful to students and faculty alike. (Lee D. Baker)

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