Description: This popular introduction to cultural anthropology integrates a historical and global approach with the ethnographic data available from around the world. Drawing on both classic and recent research in the field, the book reflects the current state-of-the-art understanding of social and cultural changes based on the relationships among different types of societies. It demonstrates the diversity of different societies and cultural patterns, but also reveals the ways in which humans everywhere are fundamentally similar. Coverage explores race and ethnicity; human evolution; culture and society; the enculturation process; language; anthropological explanations; band societies; tribes; chiefdoms; agricultural states; industrial states; the consequences of globalization; contemporary global trends; and applied anthropology.

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