Anthropology For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119784203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 432 str.

Cameron M. Smith

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INTRODUCTION 1PART 1: WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY? 7CHAPTER 1: Human Beings and Being Human: An Overview of Anthropology 9CHAPTER 2: Looking Into Humanity's Mirror: Anthropology's History 17CHAPTER 3: Actually, Four Mirrors: How Anthropology Is Studied 31PART 2: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 57CHAPTER 4: The Wildest Family Reunion: Meet the Primates 59CHAPTER 5: My Career Is in Ruins: How Anthropologists Learn about the Past 83CHAPTER 6: Bones of Contention: The Fossil Evidence for Early Human Evolution 101CHAPTER 7: It's Good to Be Home: Homo sapiens sapiens, Our Biological Species 125CHAPTER 8: Hunting, Fishing, Sailing, and Sledding: The Dispersal of Humanity Worldwide 145CHAPTER 9: Old, Old McDonald: The Origins of Farming 165CHAPTER 10: The Development of Civilization 189PART 3: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS 213CHAPTER 11: The Spice of Life: Human Culture 215CHAPTER 12: From Kalahari to Minneapolis: How Cultural Anthropologists Work 233CHAPTER 13: Can We Talk? Communication, Symbols, and Language 251CHAPTER 14: Types of Types: Race and Ethnicity 271CHAPTER 15: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Identity, Family, Kinship, and Gender 287CHAPTER 16: Not at the Dinner Table! Religion and Politics 305PART 4: SO WHAT? ANTHROPOLOGY, THE MODERN WORLD, AND YOU 323CHAPTER 17: Kiss or Kill? Diversity, Conflict, and Culture 325CHAPTER 18: Looming Disasters? From Overpopulation to Space Debris 339CHAPTER 19: Eve and the Iceman: The Cutting Edge of Physical Anthropology 355CHAPTER 20: Stonehenge and You: Why Archaeology Matters 367PART 5: THE PART OF TENS 379CHAPTER 21: Ten Things to Remember About Anthropology, Whatever Else You Forget 381CHAPTER 22: Ten Great Careers for Anthropology Majors 387CHAPTER 23: Ten (Or So) Great Anthropologically Themed Movies and Books 393CHAPTER 24: The Top Ten Myths about the Human Past 397INDEX 405

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Dr. Cameron M. Smith has searched for early human fossils in East Africa, studied traditional hunting methods in Arctic Alaska, and more. His research has been published in The American Journal of Physical Anthropology and The Journal of Field Archaeology, and he is the author of An Atlas of Human Prehistory.