| Description |
1 online resource (various pagings) : colour illustrations |
| Series |
Online access: Center for Open Education Open Textbook Library
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| Contents |
1. The Development of Anthropological Ideas -- 2. The Culture Concept -- 3. Doing Fieldwork: Methods in Cultural Anthropology -- 4. Language -- 5. Subsistence -- 6. Economics -- 7. Political Anthropology: A Cross-Cultural Comparison -- 8. Family and Marriage -- 9. Race and Ethnicity -- 10. Gender and Sexuality -- 11. Religion -- 12. Globalization -- 13. Culture and Sustainability -- 14. Performance -- 15. Health and Medicine -- 16. Seeing Like an Anthropologist: Anthropology in Practice -- 17. Media Anthropology: Meaning, Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Activism -- 18. Public Anthropology |
| Summary |
"This textbook is a collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author. Each author has written from their experiences working as an anthropologist and that personal touch makes for an accessible introduction to cultural anthropology"--BC Campus website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online version; title from PDF (viewed on June 14, 2017) |
| Subject |
Ethnology.
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Anthropology.
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Anthropology
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anthropology.
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Anthropology
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Ethnology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Nina, editor
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González, Laura Tubelle de, 1969- editor.
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McIlwraith, T. F. (Thomas Forsyth), 1899-1964, editor.
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American Anthropological Association, issuing body
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BC Open Textbook Project, distributor.
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BCcampus.
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| ISBN |
9781931303552 |
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193130355X |
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