Invitation to Anthropology - Softcover

Lassiter, Luke Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759111537 ISBN 13: 9780759111530

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2009

Synopsis

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Luke Eric 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 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

The writing is lively, the illustrations and examples are engaging and relevant. Each semester I ask students if I should continue to use a text, they always vote to keep Lassiter's book on the syllabus. I will be using it again this fall and I would absolutely recommend it to colleagues. (Colleen E. Boyd, Ball State University)

My students thoroughly enjoyed it and raved about its ease of use, its small size, fairly inexpensive cost, and more importantly, how clearly the concepts of cultural anthropology were presented. Seldom have I had students announce in class that they enjoyed reading a text book, yet my students did this very thing. (Sebastian LeBeau II, Minnesota State University - Mankato)

I was looking for a relatively small-sized text, so that other readings could be assigned; one that is not organized by 'band, tribe, chiefdom, state' and 'hunters and gatherers, horticulturalists, etc.' but that does contain basic information about the differences these types of cultures bring with them; and a text that deals with methods and explores what it means to be an anthropologist. I found all three in Invitation to Anthropology. I also appreciate Lassiter's use of examples: The students really get it when he says that he himself is ethnocentric about NASCAR. This causes comment. (Melinda Bollar Wagner, Radford University)

About this edition

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0759111537
• ISBN 13: 9780759111530
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 235