Description: "This book, a companion volume to the earlier one on man's biosocial background, has much to commend it... The editor has chosen the various papers with considerable care: most are significant contributions, of interest both for their case material and their methodological approaches. Moreover, Cohen has given the book a sense of coherence by relating the papers closely to a central argument... Cohen must... be congratulated on having produced a very useful book." --Rosemary Harris, Man "Volume II presents an introduction to cultural anthropology with papers ordered in a sequence of five "strategies of adaptation": hunting and gathering, horticulture, pastoralism, agriculture, and industrialism... The organizational format for Man in Adaptation would seem to offer several advantages to the beginning student. By using a specific conceptual framework and central theme to present the material a certain unity is accorded the often bewildering diversity of anthropological concepts and interests. This should contribute significantly toward a more rewarding educational experience. The frequent use of introductory essays successfully highlights the continuities and eases the transitions between specific studies." --Mary W. Helms, American Anthropologist "Here, then, is a specific task and place in the sun for Anthropology: The interpretation of [those] phenomena into which both organic and social causes enter. The untangling and determination and reconciling of these two sets of forces are anthropology's own. They constitute, whatever else it may undertake, the focus of its attention and an ultimate goal." --Alfred L. Kroeber

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