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The anthropology book / DK Publishing

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Big ideas simply explainedPublication details: New York : DK Publishing, 2025Description: 336 pISBN:
  • 9780241638583
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 ANT-
Summary: Explore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology--the study of human societies and cultures and how they work. The Anthropology Book introduces key concepts from different branches of the subject, such as cultural anthropology, ethnography, and biological anthropology, and explains how they have developed over the past century. The book explores the origins of human life and cultures, and how societies develop traditions, laws, and languages. Profiling renowned anthropologists, such as Claude Levi-Strauss and Margaret Mead, and covering topics as diverse as biology, medicine, war, sexuality, family roles, and kinship
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Explore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology--the study of human societies and cultures and how they work. The Anthropology Book introduces key concepts from different branches of the subject, such as cultural anthropology, ethnography, and biological anthropology, and explains how they have developed over the past century. The book explores the origins of human life and cultures, and how societies develop traditions, laws, and languages. Profiling renowned anthropologists, such as Claude Levi-Strauss and Margaret Mead, and covering topics as diverse as biology, medicine, war, sexuality, family roles, and kinship

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