Cultural Anthropology A Perspective on the Human Condition

Racism, social suffering and trauma, and the debate over "writing against culture," as well as new material on globalization* Exposes students to alternative perspectives from non-anthropologists and indigenous peoples through forty "In Their Own Words" commentaries* Provides ethnographic summaries of each society discussed at length in the text in sixty-eight "EthnoProfile" boxes* Contains two unique chapters that provide fresh treatments of standard topics: Chapter 7 links play, art, myth, and ritual in a framework that highlights the emphasis on cultural creativity, while chapter 4 looks at Western colonial history, the roots of classification of social systems, and cultural diversitySupplements:A Study Skills Guide on CD-ROM is included free with each text. Written by Margaret Rauch--former Co-Director of the Academic Learning Center at St. Cloud University--and Robert Lavenda, this unique guide provides extensive suggestions for improving study skills, numerous strategies for studying the text, and.