Humankind by Loretta A Cormier

Humankind by Loretta A Cormier

Humankind: An Introductory Reader for Cultural Anthropology introduces students to a broad array of theoretical and ethnographic essays and articles in the discipline. The editors selected papers that are engaging and relevant, yet accessible for undergraduates in introductory-level cultural anthropology courses. This text represents a diverse range of cultural contexts and includes papers that speak to important contemporary debates in anthropology. The section and chapter themes are consistent with those typically covered in Introductory Cultural Anthropology courses, including issues of anthropology's subject, religious and symbolic behaviors, language, social identity, kinship, family, and economics. This reader also includes a section exploring the future of culture, culture survival and change, and the ethical responsibilities of anthropologists to the people we study. This text will complement any introductory cultural anthropology textbook.

Loretta A. Cormier, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research experiences include fieldwork among the Amazonian Guaj hunter-gatherers, the Navajo, the Alabama Choctaw, and recently in Fiji. Her specializations are in cultural anthropology, historical ecology, ethnoprimatology, and medical anthropology. She has been teaching introductory cultural anthropology courses for fifteen years. Sharyn R. Jones, Ph.D., is an anthropologist who studies marine resource exploitation, ethnoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, tropical island chiefdoms, and gender. She has conducted research in Fiji, Polynesia and the Caribbean Islands, North America, Japan, and Micronesia. Her current research deals with issues of foodways, marine ecology, and cannibalism in Fiji. Jones is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Check out her blog at: http: //sjonesarchaeology.blogspot.com/

Loretta A. Cormier is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She specializes in cultural anthropology, primatology, languages, and medical anthropology, and is the author of The Ten-Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild Primate Malaria and Kinship with Monkeys: The Guaj� Foragers of Eastern Amazonia.

Sharyn R. Jones is an associate professor of anthropology at Northern Kentucky University. She specializes in archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, human ecology, and gender studies. Her work has ranged from the study of Fijian cannibalism to the analysis of bones from the recently discovered Amelia Earhart site in Micronesia. She is the author of Food and Gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological Explorations and coeditor of Behaviour Behind Bones: The Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity.

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ISBN 13	9781609276324
ISBN 10	1609276329
Title	Humankind
Author	Loretta A Cormier
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cognella Academic Publishing
Year published	2011-12-09
Number of pages	418
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