Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

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Wiley, Feb 23, 2004 - Social Science - 456 pages
Investigating Culture offers an innovative approach to understanding culture as a constructed phenomenon open to investigation of its implicit premises and explicit forms.

  • Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by challenging students to think in new ways and to apply these ideas to their own lives

  • Focuses on the ways that humans orient themselves, e.g., in space and time, according to language, food, the body, and the symbols provided by public myth and ritual

  • Each chapter includes: an introduction framing the central issues, examples from a range of cultures, a selected reading or two, additional suggested readings, and exercises

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Carol Delaney
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Carol Delaney
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Carol Delaney
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About the author (2004)

Carol Delaney is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is author of The Seed and The Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society (1991) and Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth (1998), and is co-editor of Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis (1995, with Sylvia Yanagisako).

Bibliographic information

TitleInvestigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology
AuthorCarol Delaney
Editionillustrated
PublisherWiley, 2004
ISBN0631222375, 9780631222378
Length456 pages
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Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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