MyLab Anthropology -- Standalone Access Card -- for Human Evolution and Culture

Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Peter N. Peregrine (Autoren)

Freischaltcode

2012 | 7th edition
Pearson (Hersteller)
978-0-205-23107-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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This text provides students with a comprehensive and scientific introduction to the four fields of anthropology and helps students understand humans in all their variety and why such variety exists. This new edition places an increased emphasis on immigration, migration and globalization.  

 

The four sections of the text introduce students to anthropology, address the biological and cultural evolution of humans, introduce students to cultural variation, and show how anthropology can be applied beyond academia.  The size of the book (19 chapters) makes it useful for quarter courses, as well as for courses that encourage a lot of supplemental reading.

Autor

Carol R. Ember started at Antioch College as a chemistry major. She began taking social science courses because some were required, but she soon found herself intrigued. There were lots of questions without answers, and she became excited about the possibility of a research career in social science. She spent a year in graduate school at Cornell studying sociology before continuing on to Harvard, where she studied anthropology primarily with John and Beatrice Whiting. For her Ph.D. dissertation she worked among the Luo of Kenya. While there she noticed that many boys were assigned "girls' work," such as babysitting and household chores, because their mothers (who did most of the agriculture) did not have enough girls to help out. She decided to study the possible effects of task assignment on the social behavior of boys. Using systematic behavior observations, she compared girls, boys who did a great deal of girls' work, and boys who did little such work. She found that boys assigned girls' work were intermediate in many social behaviors, compared with the other boys and girls. Later, she did cross-cultural research on variation in marriage, family, descent groups, and war and peace, mainly in collaboration with Melvin Ember, whom she married in 1970. All of these cross-cultural studies tested theories on data for worldwide samples of societies. From 1970 to 1996, she taught at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She has also served as president of the Society of Cross-Cultural Research and was one of the directors of the Summer Institutes in Comparative Anthropological Research, which were funded by the National Science Foundation. She is now executive director at the Human Relations Area Files, Inc., a nonprofit research agency at Yale University.   After graduating from Columbia College, Melvin Ember went to Yale University for his Ph.D. His mentor at Yale was George Peter Murdock, an anthropologist who was instrumental in promoting cross-cultural research and building a full-text database on the cultures of the world to facilitate cross-cultural hypothesis testing. This database came to be known as the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) because it was originally sponsored by the Institute of Human Relations at Yale. Growing in annual installments and now distributed in electronic format, the HRAF database currently covers more than 370 cultures, past and present, all over the world. He did fieldwork for his dissertation in American Samoa, where he conducted a comparison of three villages to study the effects of commercialization on political life. In addition, he did research on descent groups and how they changed with the increase of buying and selling. His cross-cultural studies focused originally on variation in marital residence and descent groups. He also conducted cross-cultural research on the relationship between economic and political development, the origin and extension of the incest taboo, the causes of polygamy, and how archaeological correlates of social customs can help draw inferences about the past. After four years of research at the National Institute of Mental Health, he taught at Antioch College and then Hunter College of the City University of New York. Heserved as president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and was president (since 1987) of the Human Relations Area Files, Inc., a nonprofit research agency at Yale University, until his passing.  

Inhalt

Preface   


About the Authors   


Part I  Introduction
Chapter 1  The Importance of Anthropology   
Chapter 2  Research Methods in Anthropology


Part II  Human Evolution: Biological and Cultural
Chapter 3  Genetics and Evolution   
Chapter 4  Human Variation and Adaptation   
Chapter 5  Primates: Present and Past   
Chapter 6  The First Hominids and the Emergence of Homo   
Chapter 7  The Emergence of Homo sapiens   
Chapter 8  Food Production and the Rise of States   

 

Part III  Cultural Variation
Chapter 9   Culture and Culture Change  
Chapter 10  Language and Communication   
Chapter 11  Economics   
Chapter 12  Social Stratification: Class, Ethnicity, and Racism   
Chapter 13  Sex and Gender   
Chapter 14  Marriage, Family, and Kinship   
Chapter 15  Political Life   
Chapter 16  Religion and Magic   
Chapter 17 The Arts


Part IV  Using Anthropology
Chapter 18  Global Issues   
Chapter 19  Applied and Practicing Anthropology   


Glossary   


Notes   


References   


Photo Credits   


Index   

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 18 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-205-23107-1 / 0205231071
• ISBN-13: 978-0-205-23107-2 / 9780205231072
• Zustand: Neuware