Investigating Culture

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In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popularInvestigating Culture has been updated and revised toincorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney andDeborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to culturalanthropology that is even more accessible to students. * Revised and enhanced new edition that incorporates additionalmaterial and classroom feedback * Accessible to a wider range of students and educationalsettings * Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks bychallenging students to think in new ways and to apply ideasof culture to their own lives * Focuses on the ways that humans orient themselves, e.g., inspace and time, according to language, food, the body, and thesymbols provided by public myth and ritual * Includes chapters that frame the central issues and provideexamples from a range of cultures, with selected readings,additional suggested readings, and student exercises

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Carol Delaney

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Anthropologie Anthropology Kultur Social & Cultural Anthropology Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie

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"Using an innovative and novel framework, Delaney'sInvestigating Culture moves students through a series ofanthropological concepts and demonstrates the ways in whichuniversal human concepts- time, space, family, status and genderare reformulated across the breadth of human cultural diversity.This book draws from classical and contemporary ethnographic textsproviding students a week-by week journey through the study ofhuman culture- pedagogically brilliant, easy to teach and wellstructured, this work provides students with engaging assignments,topics for discussion and advanced questions for those interestedin more advanced research. I use it every year..."' Michael Wilcox, Stanford University PRAISE FOR FIRST EDITION "Engaging, intelligent, and intellectually generous,Investigating Culture introduces students to culturalanthropology --- and reintroduces all of us to our everyday worldsas seen through ethnographic eyes. Delaney brings together acuteobservation, revelatory projects, telling and appropriatecomparisons, and an imaginative and stimulating range of readings.A book I'm eager to teach!" Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz "A splendid achievement. Carol Delaney has written an absorbingand strikingly original introduction to anthropology.Investigating Culture takes students on a self-reflexivejourney around the world and back home again. Courageous,conversational, scholarly, and engaging." Carol Stack, University of California, Berkeley
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