Beschreibung:
Humans is a concise, jargon-free introduction to four-field anthropology. The book indentifies the most relevant questions in anthropology. It provides students with an understanding of the unity of the human species, the adaptation of societies to their environments, and an appreciation of the power of socialization into a culture.
1. Anthropology 2. Knowledges 3. Humans as a Biological Species 4. Primates 5. Human Evolution 6. Human Variation 7. Human History Through Archaeology 8. Human History in our Epoch: The Holocene Photo Gallery 9. Communicating 10. Cultural Ecology 11. Economics 12. Regulating Societies: Power and Types of Societies 13. Regulating Societies: Law and Kinship 14. Religion 15. Twenty-First-Century Anthropology References and Further Readings Glossary Study Guide Note to Instructors