Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of "Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge" provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you make ...
Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of "Anthropology: The Human Challenge" provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you make sense of ...
Haviland et al. present anthropology from a holistic, four-field perspective using three unifying themes to provide a framework for the text: the varied ways human groups face the many challenges of existence, the connections between human culture and human biology, and the disparate impact of globalization on peoples and cultures around the world ...
A supplementary reader for cultural anthropology courses that consists entirely of contemporary articles that are global in both authorship and perspective.
This textbook both challenges and supports readers with a look at the diversity of the human condition; an examination into the field of cultural anthropology, its findings and its relevance; and the continuing role of cultural survival issues.
Explore evolution and prehistory through photos, examples, and anthropologists' studies with Haviland et al's "Evolution and Prehistory". The authors' goal in writing this book is to provide you with a vivid, accessible text that shows how the field is relevant to understanding the complex world around you. With Haviland et al, you will have the ...
The Study Guide and Workbook includes chapter synopses, chapter goals, lists of key terms and people, and questions to guide students in their reading of chapter material. Each chapter also includes practice tests consisting of fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, matching, true/false, and essay questions.
This text provides a thorough presentation of the principles and processes of anthropology, both physical and cultural, including ethnology, linguistics and prehistoric archaeology. By integrating research and ideas from several schools of thought, it reflects current scholarship. Features new to this edition include expanded material on ...
The Study Guide and Workbook includes chapter synopses, chapter goals, lists of key terms and people, and questions to guide students in their reading of chapter material. Each chapter also includes practice tests consisting of fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, matching, true/false, and essay questions.
The Study Guide for The Essence of Anthropology includes chapter outlines, learning objectives and key terms intended to guide students in their reading of the chapter material. Each chapter also includes practice tests consisting of multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, short answer and essay questions.
This is a supplementary reader for cultural anthropology courses that consists entirely of contemporary articles that are global in both authorship and perspective. Recognizing the centrality of fieldwork to anthropological knowledge, the Third Edition includes essays that deal specifically with the nature and dilemmas of fieldwork. These essays, ...
TR27A reports upon goods used as markers of social status and goods used in ritual. It describes the splendid ornaments and insignia of jade, shell, pearls, and inscribed bone shown in representations on monuments and pottery vessels and recovered from the burials of Tikal's elites. Each artifact is described in the text, tabulated, and richly ...
This text is intended for the introductory courses that concentrate on physical anthropology and prehistoric archaeology. It offers a comprehensive and balanced presentation on the views of human evolution and prehistory. If focuses on selected aspects of physical anthropology and prehistoric archaeology as they related to the origin of culture ...
The Study Guide and Workbook includes chapter synopses, chapter goals, lists of key terms and people, and questions to guide students in their reading of chapter material. Each chapter also includes practice tests consisting of fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, matching, true/false, and essay questions.
Occupied continuously for 1,500 years, Tikal was the most important demographic, economic, administrative, and ritual center of its region. The collection of materials recovered at Tikal is the largest and most diverse known from the Lowlands. This book provides a major body of primary data. The artifacts, represented by such raw materials as ...
Any consideration of ancient Mesoamerica, and more particularly the lowland Maya region, must include the great site of Tikal. Excavation and research were conducted at Tikal under the auspices of The University Museum and the government of Guatemala from 1956 through 1969. The painstaking analysis of the results of those years of fieldwork ...
Although Quirigua and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic ...
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