Anthropology For Dummies

Höfundur: Cameron M. Smith (Útgáfa: 2)
Anthropology For Dummies

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Anthropology For Dummies, 2nd Edition is for students currently enrolled in a college level anthropology course, as well as those whose interest in this exciting field has been piqued by popular television programs like CSI and Bones.

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Útgefandi
Wiley Professional Development (P&T)
ISBN
9781119784227
Print ISBN
9781119784203
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
2
Höfundar
Cameron M. Smith
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2021-04-13
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
2

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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Beyond the Book
  • Where to Go from Here
  • Part 1: What Is Anthropology?
  • Chapter 1: Human Beings and Being Human: An Overview of Anthropology
  • Digging Into Anthropology’s History
  • Getting Acquainted with Anthropology’s Subfields
  • Making Sense of Anthropology’s Methods
  • Applied Anthropology: Using the Science in Everyday Life
  • Chapter 2: Looking Into Humanity’s Mirror: Anthropology’s History
  • Getting to the Heart of Anthropology
  • Dazed and Confused: What It Is to Be Human
  • -Isms and the Making of Anthropology
  • Anthropology Today
  • Chapter 3: Actually, Four Mirrors: How Anthropology Is Studied
  • Physical Anthropology and the Evolutionary Basis of Biology
  • Archaeology: The Study of Ancient Societies
  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Cultural Anthropology: The Study of Living Societies
  • Part 2: Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
  • Chapter 4: The Wildest Family Reunion: Meet the Primates
  • Monkey Business: Primate Origins
  • You Look Like an Ape: Primate Species
  • Yes, We Have No Bananas: Primate Subsistence
  • Monkeying Around: Primate Locomotion
  • Monkey See, Monkey Do: Primate Social Groups and Behavior
  • Primates Today (But For How Long?)
  • Chapter 5: My Career Is in Ruins: How Anthropologists Learn about the Past
  • What, How Old, and Where: It’s All You Need to Know
  • Keeping Time: How Archaeologists Date Finds
  • Saving Space: How Archaeologists Keep Track of Where Artifacts Are Found
  • Type Casting: How Archaeologists Classify Their Finds
  • Chapter 6: Bones of Contention: The Fossil Evidence for Early Human Evolution
  • Great Africa: The Earliest Hominins
  • Stand and Deliver: The Riddles of Bipedalism
  • All the Same from the Neck Down: The Australopithecines
  • The Cracked Mirror: Early Homo
  • The Traveler: The Accomplishments of Homo erectus
  • Chapter 7: It’s Good to Be Home: Homo sapiens sapiens, Our Biological Species
  • Distinguishing Modern Homo sapiens sapiens (That’s You!)
  • Africa: The Cradle of Humanity
  • Out of Africa: An Epic Dispersal
  • The Origins of Language: The Social Grooming Theory
  • The Origins of the Modern Mind
  • Chapter 8: Hunting, Fishing, Sailing, and Sledding: The Dispersal of Humanity Worldwide
  • Dispersal and Survival: The Decoupling of Behavior from Biology
  • The Earliest Settlement of Australasia
  • Another Grand Exploration: The Colonization of the New World
  • Igloos, Dogs, and Whalebone Knives: The Colonization of the Arctic
  • The Voyage of Ru and Hina: The Colonization of the Pacific
  • High Altitude People: Early Settlement of the Tibetan Plateau
  • Big-River People: Early Settlement of the Amazon and Congo Basins
  • Desert People: Early Settlement of the Sahara
  • Chapter 9: Old, Old McDonald: The Origins of Farming
  • The Principle of Domestication
  • Principles of Horticulture
  • Principles of Farming
  • Looking Back on the Origins of Farming
  • The Early Farming Village
  • The Making of Man’s Best Friend: the Early Domestication of Dogs
  • Chapter 10: The Development of Civilization
  • Human Subsistence and Social Organization
  • The Characteristics of Civilization
  • Charting the Rise and Fall of the First Civilizations
  • Civilization Today: Will It Fall, Too?
  • Part 3: Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics
  • Chapter 11: The Spice of Life: Human Culture
  • Demystifying the Definition of Culture
  • What Culture Is and What Culture Isn’t
  • Cultural Universals
  • Having an Out-of-Body Experience
  • Opening Your Human Behavior Owner’s Manual
  • Getting Your Cultural Education
  • From Mop-Tops to Mötley Crüe: What Is Cultural Change?
  • Cultural Evolution
  • Chapter 12: From Kalahari to Minneapolis: How Cultural Anthropologists Work
  • Watching Cultural Anthropology Grow Up
  • A More Personal Approach: Emic Research
  • Considering Recent Developments
  • Striving for Accuracy
  • Going into the Field: Getting Prepared for Less-Than-Ideal Conditions
  • Chapter 13: Can We Talk? Communication, Symbols, and Language
  • Exploring the Complexity of Human Language
  • Ready to Swear: How the Human Mind Is Hard-Wired for Language
  • Watching Human Language Evolve
  • Chapter 14: Types of Types: Race and Ethnicity
  • The Kinds of Humanity: Human Physical Variation
  • Why Is Everyone Different? Human Cultural Variation
  • Chapter 15: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Identity, Family, Kinship, and Gender
  • Am I “Cameron” or “a Smith”? The Scales of Human Identity
  • A Family Affair
  • Kinship
  • Sex and Gender
  • Kinship and Gender Worldwide and through Time
  • Age and Stage of Life
  • Chapter 16: Not at the Dinner Table! Religion and Politics
  • What Is Religion?
  • The Material and Supernatural Worlds
  • Ritual and Religion
  • The Organization of Supernatural Knowledge
  • The Origins of Religion
  • Types of Religions
  • The Relations of Power: Politics
  • The Politics of Polarization
  • Part 4: So What? Anthropology, the Modern World, and You
  • Chapter 17: Kiss or Kill? Diversity, Conflict, and Culture
  • The Anthropology of Conflict and Conflict Resolution
  • Globalization and Human Culture
  • Chapter 18: Looming Disasters? From Overpopulation to Space Debris
  • The Only Constant Is Change
  • Overpopulation
  • Climate Change
  • Say What? The Loss of Linguistic Diversity
  • Food and Water Availability/Famine
  • Disease
  • Space Debris
  • Your New Home on Mars! Issues of Space Settlement
  • Chapter 19: Eve and the Iceman: The Cutting Edge of Physical Anthropology
  • Molecular Anthropology
  • DNA and the Mitochondrial Eve
  • Neanderthals and You: The Neanderthal Genome
  • The Iceman
  • Chapter 20: Stonehenge and You: Why Archaeology Matters
  • History Is Written by the Winners: The Importance of Archaeology
  • Conversation Stoppers? Archaeology and the Unknown
  • Part 5: The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 21: Ten Things to Remember About Anthropology, Whatever Else You Forget
  • The Use of Tools Separated Behavior from Anatomy
  • We’re Not Just Like Apes, We ARE Apes
  • Nobody Knows Why Hominids First Walked Upright (Yet)
  • Everyone Is in the Human Race
  • Civilization is Brand-New
  • There Are Many Ways to be Human
  • Culture Doesn’t Ride on Genes
  • Language and Metaphor Are the Keys to Human Success
  • Absolutely, There Are No Absolutes
  • There is No Ladder of Progress
  • Chapter 22: Ten Great Careers for Anthropology Majors
  • Academic Anthropology
  • Cultural/Human Resources
  • Forensic Anthropology
  • Crime Scene Investigation
  • Primate Biology
  • Primate Ethology
  • Diplomacy
  • Museum Work
  • Library Science
  • Contract Archaeology
  • Chapter 23: Ten (Or So) Great Anthropologically Themed Movies and Books
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  • Once We Were Warriors
  • The Places in Between
  • Gorillas in the Mist
  • Neanderthal
  • Quest for Fire
  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
  • Maps and Dreams
  • Dances of Life
  • Chapter 24: The Top Ten Myths about the Human Past
  • All Human Societies Evolved in the Same Direction
  • Prehistoric Life Was Nasty, Brutish, and Short
  • Ancient People Were Perfectly in Balance with Nature
  • Farming Is Easier and Better than Foraging
  • Ancient Monuments Had Just One Purpose
  • “Primitive Technology” Was Limited
  • Cave Art Was about Men Hunting Animals
  • It’s Nature or Nurture
  • History Repeats Itself
  • Having Reached a Peak, Human Evolution Has Ended
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • Connect with Dummies
  • End User License Agreement