The new edition of Kottak's best selling text continues to offer a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective. To emphasize anthropology's integrated and comparative nature, "Bringing It All Together" essays show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive f...(展开全部)

The new edition of Kottak's best selling text continues to offer a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective. To emphasize anthropology's integrated and comparative nature, "Bringing It All Together" essays show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive f...(展开全部)

This careful revision of one of the best-selling General Anthropology texts available now features vastly expanded coverage of physical anthropology and archaeology. This serves to make Kottak the most balanced introduction to the four fields of anthropology. A wealth of the "Where In The World" Maps lets students view important geographical data "up close" as well as in the br...(展开全部)

This careful revision of one of the best-selling General Anthropology texts available now features vastly expanded coverage of physical anthropology and archaeology. This serves to make Kottak the most balanced introduction to the four fields of anthropology. A wealth of the "Where In The World" Maps lets students view important geographical data "up close" as well as in the br...(展开全部)

The new tenth edition of Kottak's best selling text for cultural anthropology continues to offer a holistic introduction to cultural anthropology that approaches the course from a four-field perspective. The new, tenth edition is a major revision offering many new and exciting features that build on the strengths of this approach. The text has two new themes --Bringing It All...(展开全部)

威廉.A. 哈维兰（William A. Haviland），佛蒙特大学荣休教授，该校人类学系创始人，执教达32年之久。获宾夕法尼亚大学人类学博士学位。本书是他诸多国内和国际著作及期刊出版物的基础，也是面向一般大众媒体的出发点。他*初在危地马拉共和国和美国佛蒙特州从事独创性的考古研究，而后在缅因州、佛蒙特州做民族志，并在危地马拉研究体质人类学。他的著作包括与玛乔莉合著的《佛蒙特初民》和一本关于古代玛雅部落的技术性专著。他还担任获奖电视课程“多面文化”的顾问，以及由宾夕法尼亚大学考古学人类学博物馆出版的《蒂卡尔报告》系列的主编。除了教学和写作，哈维兰博士还在加拿大、墨西哥、莱索托、南非、西班牙以及美国面向众多专业以及非 专业观众举办讲座。他作为专家亲眼见证了佛蒙特州原住民阿布纳基人渔业的重要诉讼案件。他于1990年获佛蒙特大学研究生院“大学学者”称号，...(展开全部)

This volume examines an often taken for granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers...(展开全部)

We live in a time of global mega-problems of unsustainable growth and consumption, resource depletion, ecosystem degradation, global warming, escalating energy costs, poverty, and conflict. Cultural anthropologist John H. Bodley trenchantly critiques these most pressing issues and shows how anthropology makes it possible to find solutions. The focus on culture scale suggests th...(展开全部)

Resource depletion, global warming, escalating energy costs, poverty, conflict. As human life becomes increasingly complicated, cultural anthropologist John H. Bodley conceives a work that closes in on the social and environmental problems of our time and explores the deleterious global reaches of unsustainable growth in production and consumption. Anthropology and Contemporary...(展开全部)

We live in a time of global mega-problems of unsustainable growth and consumption, resource depletion, ecosystem degradation, global warming, escalating energy costs, poverty, and conflict. Cultural anthropologist John H. Bodley trenchantly critiques these most pressing issues and shows how anthropology makes it possible to find solutions. The focus on culture scale suggests th...(展开全部)