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Window on Humanity ISE

10th Edition
1265765634 · 9781265765637
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 dim… Read More
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Chapter 1 - What Is Anthropology?    
Chapter 2 - Culture    
Chapter 3 - Doing Anthropology   
Chapter 4 - Evolution, Genetics, and Human Variation   
Chapter 5 - The Primates    
Chapter 6 - Early Hominins    
Chapter 7 - The Genus Homo   
Chapter 8 - The First Farmers    
Chapter 9 - The First Cities and States    
Chapter 10 - Language and Communication    
Chapter 11 - Making a Living    
Chapter 12 - Political Systems    
Chapter 13 - Families, Kinship, and Marriage    
Chapter 14 – Gender 
Chapter 15 - Religion    
Chapter 16 - Ethnicity and Race    
Chapter 17 - Applying Anthropology    
Chapter 18 - The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality    
Chapter 19 – Anthropology’s Role in a Globalizing World    


Glossary    
Bibliography 
Index    


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 instructors 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.