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Cultural anthropology : the human challenge / created by William A Haviland.

By: Material type: TextTextHarcourt Brace/Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993Edition: 7th EditionDescription: 488 pages : colour illustrations; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • rdamwedia
Carrier type:
  • rdacarrier
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN316 HAV
Contents:
Putting the World in Perspective pt. 1. Anthropology and the Study of Culture. 1. The Nature of Anthropology. 2. The Nature of Culture. 3. The Beginnings of Human Culture pt. II. Culture and Survival: Communicating, Raising Children, and Staying Alive. 4. Language and Communication. 5. Growing Up Human. 6. Patterns of Subsistence. 7. Economic Systems pt. III. The Formation of Groups: Solving the Problem of Cooperation. 8. Sex and Marriage. 9. Family and Household. 10. Kinship and Descent. 11. Grouping by Sex, Age, Common Interest, and Class pt. IV. The Search for Order; Solving the Problem of Disorder. 12. Political Organization and Social Control. 13. Religion and the Supernatural. 14. The Arts pt. V. Change and the Future: Solving the Problem of Adjusting to Changed Conditions. 15. Cultural Change. 16. The Future of Humanity
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Putting the World in Perspective pt. 1. Anthropology and the Study of Culture. 1. The Nature of Anthropology. 2. The Nature of Culture. 3. The Beginnings of Human Culture pt. II. Culture and Survival: Communicating, Raising Children, and Staying Alive. 4. Language and Communication. 5. Growing Up Human. 6. Patterns of Subsistence. 7. Economic Systems pt. III. The Formation of Groups: Solving the Problem of Cooperation. 8. Sex and Marriage. 9. Family and Household. 10. Kinship and Descent. 11. Grouping by Sex, Age, Common Interest, and Class pt. IV. The Search for Order; Solving the Problem of Disorder. 12. Political Organization and Social Control. 13. Religion and the Supernatural. 14. The Arts pt. V. Change and the Future: Solving the Problem of Adjusting to Changed Conditions. 15. Cultural Change. 16. The Future of Humanity

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