Cultural ANTHRO2 (with CourseMate, 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card) (New, Engaging Titles from 4LTR Press) - Softcover

Robbins, Richard H.; Dowty, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1133606725 ISBN 13: 9781133606727

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2013

Synopsis

Created through a review process with more than 60 students and faculty members, CULTURAL ANTHRO is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners. Using a variety of questions on important issues anthropologists study in a unique problem-based format, CULTURAL ANTHRO actively engages readers through discussion of key problems that people and cultures face and case studies in every chapter that illustrate how anthropologists work.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard H. Robbins is a distinguished teaching professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. His teaching interests include courses on global problems, utopian societies, comparative religion, the anthropology of food, and activist anthropology. He has conducted research among indigenous peoples of Canada and fishing communities in northeastern New Brunswick. His recent books Include Debt as Power (with Tim DiMuzio); Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, Sixth Edition; Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation (With Mark Cohen); and Globalization and the Environment (with Gary Kroll). Professor Robbins is the recipient of the 2005 American Anthropological Association/McGraw-Hill award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Review:

1. Culture and Meaning. 2. The Meaning of Progress and Development. 3. Globalization, Neoliberalism and the Nation-State. 4. The Social and Cultural Construction of Reality. 5. Patterns of Family Relations. 6. The Cultural Construction of Identity. 7. The Cultural Construction of Social Hierarchy. 8. The Cultural Construction of Violent Conflict.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1133606725
• ISBN 13: 9781133606727
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224