This book offers a comprehensive and balanced presentation on views of human culture, evolution, and prehistory. The text presents the principles and processes of anthropology, both physical (biological) and cultural, including ethnology, linguistics, and prehistoric archaeology in an integrated, ho
Anthropology: the human challenge
โ Scribed by Walrath, Dana;Prins, Harald E. L.;McBride, Bunny;Haviland, William A
- Publisher
- Wadsworth Cengage Learning
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 787
- Edition
- Fourteenth edition
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Subjects
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