Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human by Robert J. Muckle, Laura Tubelle de González

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By Robert J. Muckle, Laura Tubelle de González

Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise yet complete introductory textbook that makes use of the dual issues of foodstuff and sustainability to demonstrate the attached nature of anthropology's 4 significant subfields: archaeology, and organic, cultural, and linguistic anthropology. by way of viewing the realm during the lens of anthropology, scholars will study not just approximately anthropological tools, theories, and ethics, but in addition the ways that anthropology is proper to their daily lives and embedded within the tradition that surrounds them.

Beautifully illustrated all through, with over a hundred and fifty full-color photographs, figures, function packing containers, and maps, this is often an anthropology textual content with a clean point of view, a full of life narrative, and many well known issues which are certain to have interaction readers. a powerful pedagogical framework constructions the ebook: every one bankruptcy good points studying targets, thesaurus phrases, and bankruptcy summaries, in addition to evaluation and dialogue questions which consultant scholars' research of the themes, subject matters, and matters raised within the textual content. This publication is attention-grabbing to learn, workable to coach, and succeeds at igniting curiosity in anthropology as a discipline.

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1 Primate Taxonomy This figure presents one of several ways of classifying primates, including humans. The diagram is simplified to focus on major categories of apes and human s. As an order, primates may be considere d to be omnivorous, but in practice particular taxa tend to specialize in fruit, leaves, or insects. Meat eating is rare but does occur among some ape and monkey populations. Primates are often characterized as having a generalized body plan, which means they can do a lot of different things that many other animals can't.

Palaeoanthropology, which involves the study of early human biology and culture, is often considered to be part of biological anthropology, although it tend s to involve the recovery, analysis, and int erpre tati on of both early human biological and cultural evidence. Th e stud y of human biological evolution, mostly based on stud ies by palae oan throp ologists, is the focus of Chapter 4. 'I11e study of early hum an cultural evolution is the focus of Chap ter 5. Mos t biological an thropol ogists work in the academic world, but some also are employed elsewher e, in such fields as ergonomics or forensics.

Anthropologi sts recognize that biological and cultural characteri stics are not perfect. • An thropol ogists recognize that there are multipl e ways of adapting, and one way is not necessarily bett er th an another. • An thropol ogists recognize that similar problems can be solved in different ways. Through the Lens of Anthropo logy: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Cultur e History of Anthropology, Mostly in North America Anthropology emerged globally as a widely recognized academic discipline in the r8oos, primarily in Europe.

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