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Meeting Anthropology Phase to Phase Growing Up, Spreading Out, Crowding In, Switching on

by Ronald Kephart

  • ISBN: 9780890897744
  • ISBN10: 0890897743

Meeting Anthropology Phase to Phase Growing Up, Spreading Out, Crowding In, Switching on

by Ronald Kephart

  • List Price: $30.00
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr
  • Publish date: 03/01/2000
  • ISBN: 9780890897744
  • ISBN10: 0890897743
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Description: In Meeting Anthropology, the major phases through which our species has passed provide the structure for a truly coherent encounter with general anthropology -- biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic, Part I, "Growing Up", covers the evolution of upright, large-brained primates. Part II, "Spreading Out", details how culture allowed these handy, intelligent beings to expand from their tropical homes to fill the world. Part III, "Crowding In", focuses on the dramatic cultural reconfigurations wrought by the growth of large societies, as humans populated the earth ever more densely. Part IV, "Switching On", explores how contemporary culture emerged from, and continues to be transformed by, the emergence of a world system and the ongoing process of industrialization.

Throughout the book, the imperative we share with all animals to find and use energy sources is a key integrative theme. Also highly integrative is the book's consistency in defining and analyzing cultural systems -- including our own -- in terms of (1) the means by which societies interface with their physical and social environments; (2) the customary ways in which members of society interact with one another; and (3) the ideas through which reality is interpreted symbolically.

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