Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Anthropology

✍ Scribed by Conrad Kottak

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1524
• Edition: 10
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Window on Humanity is a brief introduction to general anthropology. It covers the four subfields – biological anthropology, anthropological archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology – as well as anthropology’s two dimensions – academic and applied anthropology.  Its shorter length increases instructor's options for assigning additional reading―case studies, readers, and other supplements within a one semester course. Window on Humanity can also work well in a quarter system, for which traditional texts may be too long. While presenting core concepts and topics, Window also aims to demonstrate anthropology’s relevance to the 21st-century world we inhabit. The text aims to instill an appreciation of human diversity, of anthropology as a field, and of how an anthropological approach can build on, and help make sense of, the experience that students bring to the classroom. 

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Brief Contents
Contents
Anthropology Today Boxes
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1 What Is Anthropology?
2 Culture
3 Doing Anthropology
4 Evolution, Genetics, and Human Variation
5 The Primates
6 Early Hominins
7 The Genus Homo
8 The First Farmers
9 The First Cities and States
10 Language and Communication
11 Making a Living
12 Political Systems
13 Families, Kinship, and Marriage
14 Gender
15 Religion
16 Ethnicity and Race
17 Applying Anthropology
18 The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality
19 Anthropology?s Role in a Globalizing World
Glossary
Bibliography
Index