Introducing Cultural Anthropology - Softcover

Lenkeit, Roberta Edwards

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9780767412285: Introducing Cultural Anthropology

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ISBN 10: 0767412281 ISBN 13: 9780767412285

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2001

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A brief, accessible introduction to cultural anthropology with in-text activities that give students the opportunity to explore anthropology’s relevance to their own lives.

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Brief and accessible. Most introductory texts now exceed 400 pages, overwhelming readers with an encyclopedic survey of topics and cultures. Lenkeit introduces basic concepts in a reasonable amount of detail.
In-text exercises called "Try This." Found on nearly every page, these exercises encourage students to actively engage with the material they've just read. These activities ask students to put the reading into action by asking them to ponder, to compare, to apply, or to surf the Web.
Colorful and visually appealing. The full-color photos, four-color interior design, and interesting graphics show anthropology to its best advantage.
Two unique chapters. The text includes separate chapters on fieldwork (Chapter 3) and sexuality across cultures (Chapter 7), topics that are of particular interest to beginning students.
Extensive pedagogy. In addition to the "Try This" exercises detailed above and the online study guide found on the Web page, each chapter in the text offers learning objectives, a summary, study questions, and suggested readings. An end-of-book glossary and bibliography are also provided.
A lively writing style. Spiced with humor, anecdotes, and an overall conversational tone, this text reflects the author's award-winning 25 years of teaching and her understanding of how to reach beginning students.

About the Author:

Roberta Edwards Lenkeit is currently professor of anthropology at Modesto Junior College, Modesto, California where she has taught since 1976. She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara where, as a teaching assistant, she first learned how fun it was to share anthropology with introductory level students. After graduation, she spent four years as a full time instructor at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. She also taught as an adjunct faculty member for two years at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is the recipient of many awards of recognition for outstanding teaching by the campus chapter of Alpha Gamma Sigma. Her special interests include comparative kinship, religion, applied anthropology, hominid evolution, lithic tool technology, and Upper Paleolithic cave art. She has done fieldwork in Spain, the Cook Islands, and French Polynesia. For relaxation Roberta gardens and raises banty hens. She is the author of Introducing Cultural Anthropology (2001, Mayfield Publishing).

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