Why Humans Have Cultures: Explaining Anthropology and Social Diversity

ISBN-13: 9780192892119 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str.

Michael Carrithers

Opis

Why Humans Have Cultures examines three basic questions: what unity underlies human cultural diversity? What are the origins of that diversity? How can we understand it? The author argues that it is the ways in which people interact--rather than technological advances--that have been of crucial importance in human history. In this thought-provoking book, Carrithers draws on ancient and contemporary examples to show how this perspective forms a solid foundation for the study of culture, society, and history.

O autorze

Michael Carrithers is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham.