Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Anthropology 10th Edition by Conrad Kottak, ISBN-13: 9781260727036

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Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Anthropology 10th Edition by Conrad Kottak, ISBN-13: 9781260727036

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Window on Humanity is a brief introduction to general anthropology. It covers the four subfields – biological anthropology anthropological archaeology sociocultural anthropology and linguistic anthropology – as well as anthropology’s two dimensions – academic and applied anthropology. Its shorter length increases instructors options for assigning additional reading—case studies readers and other supplements within a one semester course. Window on Humanity can also work well in a quarter system for which traditional texts may be too long. While presenting core concepts and topics Window also aims to demonstrate anthropology’s relevance to the 21st-century world we inhabit. The text aims to instill an appreciation of human diversity of anthropology as a field and of how an anthropological approach can build on and help make sense of the experience that students bring to the classroom.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 – What Is Anthropology?

Chapter 2 – Culture

Chapter 3 – Doing Anthropology

Chapter 4 – Evolution, Genetics, and Human Variation

Chapter 5 – The Primates

Chapter 6 – Early Hominins

Chapter 7 – The Genus Homo

Chapter 8 – The First Farmers

Chapter 9 – The First Cities and States

Chapter 10 – Language and Communication

Chapter 11 – Making a Living

Chapter 12 – Political Systems

Chapter 13 – Families, Kinship, and Marriage

Chapter 14 – Gender

Chapter 15 – Religion

Chapter 16 – Ethnicity and Race

Chapter 17 – Applying Anthropology

Chapter 18 – The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality

Chapter 19 – Anthropology’s Role in a Globalizing World

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Conrad Phillip Kottak (A.B. Columbia, 1963; Ph.D. Columbia, 1966) is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1968. In 1991 he was honored for his teaching by the University and the state of Michigan. In 1992 he received an excellence in teaching award from the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts of the University of Michigan. Professor Kottak has done fieldwork in cultural anthropology in Brazil (since 1962), Madagascar (since 1966), and the United States. In current research projects, Kottak and his colleagues have investigated the emergence of ecological awareness in Brazil, the social context of deforestation in Madagascar, and popular participation in economic development planning in northeastern Brazil.

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