Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology - Couverture souple

Lavenda, Robert; Schultz, Emily

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0072818603 ISBN 13 : 9780072818604

Editeur : McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Lavenda Robert Schultz Emily A

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Robert H. Lavenda is Professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University, and is director of the Latin American Studies Program. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Indiana University in 1977 and has done fieldwork in Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and small-town Minnesota. He is the author of Corn Fests and Water Carnivals: Celebrating Community in Minnesota, numerous articles on festivals and play, and is co-author of three anthropology textbooks. His special interests are play, festival behavior, world view, culture and communication, Latin America, and North American culture.

Emily A. Schultz is Associate Professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University and editor of the anthropology journal City and Society. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Indiana University in 1980. She did fieldwork in Cameroon, and has also worked in Ecuador and Costa Rica. She is the author of Dialogue at the Margins: Whorf, Bakhtin, and Linguistic Relativity, and is co-author of three anthropology textbooks. Her special interests are language and culture, globalization, and the anthropology of science and technology.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This concise and affordable introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology addresses the needs of anthropology professors who make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings in their courses. Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology offers a thorough annotated bibliography of the terms and concepts that anthropologists use in their work, while its conceptual and theoretical framework prepares students to read ethnography more effectively.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072818603
• ISBN 13: 9780072818604
• Reliure: Paperback
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 256