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Anthropology: A Brief Introduction | 
 enlarge | Authors: Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember
Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3665711
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 422
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0137458290
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780137458295
ASIN: 0137458290
Publication Date: November 26, 1997
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For one-semester courses in General Anthropology or courses where supplementary readings are used. Designed to be used in conjunction with a book of selected readings or ethnographies, this brief, concise version of Ember/Ember's larger best-selling introductory text provides an ideal core book for courses that explore the significant achievements in physical and cultural anthropology or one-semester courses where supplemental readings are assigned.
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It's a textbook. As advertised. July 18, 2003
Wyote (Seoul)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The writing will put out fires, and a lot of the "discussion" is insulting to a thinking person's intelligence, but that's the norm for textbooks, is it not? The information is reliable as far as I know; generally it's very basic. Controversial claims are either carefully explained or carefully avoided.
I learned a lot about anthropology while reading this.
Well, and that's what a textbook's supposed to do.
Specifically, the book covers things like "the scope of anthropology," archaeology, very basic linguistics, food collection and production, economic systems, social stratification, gender, marriage and the family, kinship, political life, religion and magic, medical anthropology, and a discussion of possibilities for reducing violence and war. (It ends with, "There may be difficulties on the road to solutions, but we can overcome them if we want to. So let's go for it!")
Notice that a fifth edition has come out. I read the fourth edition, but you will probably want to read the fifth. The Embers have written some other textbooks on anthropology that you might check out as well.
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