Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology - Couverture souple

Delaney, Carol; Kaspin, Deborah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405154241 ISBN 13 : 9781405154246

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), 2011

Synopsis

In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural anthropology that is even more accessible to students. * Revised and enhanced new edition that incorporates additional material and classroom feedback * Accessible to a wider range of students and educational settings * Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by challenging students to think in new ways and to apply ideas of culture to their own lives * Focuses on the ways that humans orient themselves, e.g., in space and time, according to language, food, the body, and the symbols provided by public myth and ritual * Includes chapters that frame the central issues and provide examples from a range of cultures, with selected readings, additional suggested readings, and student exercises

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carol Delaney is Associate Professor Emerita of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is author of The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society (1991) and Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth (1998), and is co editor of Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis (1995, with Sylvia Yanagisako). Deborah Kaspin is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College and has taught at University of Virginia, Yale University, Wheaton College, and Rhode Island College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405154241
• ISBN 13: 9781405154246
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 424
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible