TY - BOOK AU - Pattie,Susan Paul AU - Achim,Miruna ED - DK Publishing TI - The anthropology book T2 - Big ideas simply explained SN - 9780241638583 U1 - 306 PY - 2025/// CY - New York PB - DK Publishing KW - Anthropology KW - Society N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 ER -