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Anthropology

A Beginner's Guide

Joy Hendry author Simon Underdown author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oneworld Publications

Published:1st Aug '12

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"A wonderfully accessible introduction, with a clear focus on the needs of students first coming to the field." Faye Healey-Clough - Anthropology lecturer, Gloucestershire College, UK

Discover the biological and social origins of our species

In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including how witchcraft has been used to justify misfortune, and debunk old-fashioned ideas about “race” based upon the latest genetic research. They even share what our bathroom tells us about our concept of the body – and ourselves.

 

From our evolutionary ancestors, through our rites of passage, to our responses to globalization, Hendry and Underdown provide the essential first step to understanding the world as an anthropologist would – in all its diversity and commonality.

-- A wonderfully accessible introduction, with a clear focus on the needs of students first coming to the field. Dr Faye Healey-Clough Anthropology lecturer, Gloucestershire College, UK

ISBN: 9781851689309

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm

Weight: 249g

224 pages