Anthropology

Note: All chapters end with:
- Chapter summary
- For Review sections
- Key terms
- References
Preface
From the Publisher
1. What Is Anthropology?
2. Why Is the Concept of Culture Important?
3. Why Is Evolution Important to Anthropologists?
4. What Can the Study of Primates Tell Us about Human Beings?
5. What Can the Fossil Record Tell Us about Human Origins?
6. How Did Homo Sapiens Evolve?
7. What Can Evolutionary Theory Tell Us about Human Variation?
8. How Do We Know about the Human Past?
9. Why Did Humans Settle Down, Build Cities, and Establish States?
10. Why Do Anthropologists Study Economic Relations?
11. What Can Anthropology Teach Us about Sex, Gender, and Sexuality? NEW
12. Where Do Our Relatives Come From and Why Do They Matter?
13. How Do Anthropologists Study Political Relations?
14. What Can Anthropology Tell Us about Social Groups and Social Inequality?
15. What Can Anthropology Tell Us about Globalization?
16. How Do We Make Meaning?
Glossary
Index

Instructor's Manual
For each chapter:
· Chapter summary (brief and detailed versions)
· 10 discussion/debate questions
· 1-3 activities and assignments
· Annotated suggestions for further reading
· 10-15 relevant web links
· 1-3 film suggestions and questions
Test Generator
For each chapter
· 20-30 multiple choice questions
· 20-30 true-or-false questions
· 5-10 short essay questions
PowerPoint slides
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· 20-30 lecture outline slides
Image Bank
· All images, tables, and figures from the text
Interoperable Cartridge
Student Study Guide
For each chapter:
· Chapter outline
· 5-10 chapter key points
· Chapter key terms
· 5-10 discussion essay topics
· 10-15 multiple choice questions
· 10-15 true-or-false questions
· List of relevant websites
· List of films
· Further Reading
· Video links
Focus on Four Fields Features
An introduction to the various methods, approaches, and concerns relevant to each of the four main fields:
· Biological Anthropology: Bioarchaeology and the Analysis of Human Remains
· Archaeology: Dating Methods in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology
· Linguistic Anthropology: Components of Language
- Cultural Anthropology: Ethnographic Methods

Robert H. Lavenda is an emeritus professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University.

Emily A. Schultz is a professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University.

Cynthia Zutter is Vice-Provost at MacEwan University, where she is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Economics and Political Science. She has taught anthropology courses for the past seventeen years at the university and also has over two decades of research experience in the Arctic.

Special Features

• Incorporates Canadian content throughout while retaining an overarching global approach, giving students a balanced overview of anthropology at home and abroad.
• Four-field perspective covers main concepts in each of the four-fields of anthropology - cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology - giving students a comprehensive introduction to the discipline.
• Impacts of globalization discussed throughout helps students understand its implications in light of a variety of topics.
• Coverage of current anthropological approaches to power and inequality - including issues of nationalism, racism, class, caste, and human rights - explores how power is manifested in different human societies and how it permeates all aspects of social life.
• Cross-chapter marginal notes direct students to other parts of the text and to the online Focus on Four Fields features for further reading and activities, encouraging readers to make connections between topics, issues, and subfields of anthropology.
• A robust box program-featuring many new and updated boxes-invite students to think about ideas in anthropology from many angles:
• - In Their Own Words boxes feature commentaries written by anthropologists and other subject-matter experts on relevant issues, cases, and research studies.
• - Anthropology in Everyday Life boxes demonstrate the relevance of anthropology in today's world through examples such as using video games as a teaching tool for archaeology, the "Sixties Scoop", and the creation of a Kryptonian alphabet for a recent Superman film.
• EthnoProfile boxes offer essential information on cultural groups, providing an overview of relevant geographic, linguistic, demographic, and organizational data.
• Question-oriented approach provides an alternative to traditional encyclopaedic texts by structuring chapters around questions that are designed to spark curiosity and help students understand how anthropology is relevant to their lives.
• Visually appealing full-colour design, featuring an abundance of photos, illustrations, maps, and tables throughout, helps bring anthropology to life.
• Online Focus on Four Fields feature provides students with an introduction to the various methods, approaches, and concerns relevant to each of the four main fields-including topics such as dating methods, ethnographic methods, and the analysis of human remains.

• Streamlined and reorganized content-this text has been condensed and restructured to enhance accessibility and to better reflect how anthropology courses are taught in Canada today.
• Updated and expanded Canadian content throughout discusses topics such as French language ideology in France vs. Quebec and the archaeological discovery of Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchi (Long Ago Person Found) in British Columbia.
• New discussion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission throughout the text gives students insight into the past and ongoing effects of colonization in Canada.
• A new chapter on sex, gender, and sexuality incorporates an array of interesting cases such as male stereotypes in Mexico, female sexual practices in Mombasa, and trans-sexualities and same sex-desire in Iran.
• Updated coverage of current anthropological issues - including cultural resource management, sociolinguistics, gay marriage, and caste and class - illustrates the relevance of anthropology in the modern world.
• Fully updated data and research throughout makes this a current and engaging resource.