Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge, 13th Edition

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Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge, 13th Edition
by William A. Haviland, Harald E. L. Prins, Bunny McBride, Dana Walrath
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Behavioral Sciences

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 sense of today's world. With this text you will discover the different ways humans face the challenge of existence, the connection between biology and culture in the shaping of human beliefs and behavior, and the impact of globalization on peoples and cultures around the world.

• Rank: #285 in Books
• Published on: 2010-03-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.71" h x .91" w x 8.70" l, 2.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

• Chapter 3, Ethnographic Research: Its History, Methods, and Theories, focuses on research methods past and present, and includes a discussion of the comparative method, the moral dilemmas and ethical responsibilities encountered in anthropological research and an expanded section on advocacy anthropology. Also providing a brief overview of anthropological theories, the chapter explores the relationship between ethnography and theory and will help students meet general education requirements.
• Globalscape, a map feature now appearing in seven chapters, charts the global flow of people, goods, and services, as well as pollutants and pathogens. Showing how the world is interconnected through human activity, the Globalscapes contribute to the text's globalization theme with topics geared toward student interests (e.g. one highlights the economics of piracy off the coast of Somalia while another looks at transnational child exchange). Each one ends with a "Global Twister" question prodding students to think critically about globalization.
• "Biocultural Connections" illustrate how cultural and biological processes work together to shape human biology, beliefs, and behavior and reflect the integrated biocultural approach central to the field of anthropology today. Topics range from high-altitude adaptation in the Andes and cross-cultural attitudes toward organ transplantation to cousin-marriage prohibitions in the U.S. and toxic breast milk in arctic communities.
• "Original Studies" feature excerpts, integrated within the flow of the text, are feature excerpts from case studies and other original works by women and men in the field. Found in all many chapters, they illustrate important concepts in the discipline and show students how anthropologists study human beliefs and behavior, past and present. Exciting topics, some new and some updated, include Bill Maurer's study of Shariah law and banking ("Sacred Law in Global Capitalism"), and Margo DeMello's tattoo research ("The Modern Tatoo Community").
• "Anthropology Applied" boxes focus on the broad range of work anthropologists from around the world undertake and the variety of social contexts in which they practice. With these boxes, students also see what types of career opportunities are available to them outside of academia - from work in healthcare and reproduction to ecotourism, economic development, international aid, dispute resolution, indigenous language preservation, and cultural revitalization through traditional art.