Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology
Product Details
ISBN: 9780631222378
Publish Date: 02/23/2004
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Number of pages: 456
Description
Investigating Culture offers an innovative approach to understanding culture as a constructed phenomenon open to investigation of its implicit premises and explicit forms.
- Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by challenging students to think in new ways and to apply these ideas to their own lives
- Focuses on the ways that humans orient themselves, e.g., in space and time, according to language, food, the body, and the symbols provided by public myth and ritual
- Each chapter includes: an introduction framing the central issues, examples from a range of cultures, a selected reading or two, additional suggested readings, and exercises
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