Accessing Anthropology: A Workbook/Reader Introducing the Field of Cultural Anthropology

Author(s): Candace Coffman

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Accessing Anthropology: A Workbook/Reader Introducing the Field of Cultural Anthropology introduces anthropology in a way that is interesting, exciting, and accessible to students.

Accessing Anthropology:

  • Includes excerpts from book chapters and journal articles, as well as a few classic works.
  • Includes questions and exercises useful for homework, group-work, or to stimulate classroom discussion.
  • Features links to websites for further information and web-based exercises that can be assigned as homework or be the basis of a classroom discussion.
  • Provides the opportunity for students to engage with their social and cultural environment to consider anthropological questions.

 

Unit 1: Introduction to the Field of Anthropology

Unit 2: Early Theory Explaining Human Diversity and the Race Question

Unit 3: Economic Anthropology

Unit 4: Kinship

Unit 5: Political Systems

Unit 6: Gender

Unit 7: Religion

Unit 8: Medical Anthropology

Unit 9: Macro-Level Analysis, World Inequality

Candace Coffman

Accessing Anthropology: A Workbook/Reader Introducing the Field of Cultural Anthropology introduces anthropology in a way that is interesting, exciting, and accessible to students.

Accessing Anthropology:

  • Includes excerpts from book chapters and journal articles, as well as a few classic works.
  • Includes questions and exercises useful for homework, group-work, or to stimulate classroom discussion.
  • Features links to websites for further information and web-based exercises that can be assigned as homework or be the basis of a classroom discussion.
  • Provides the opportunity for students to engage with their social and cultural environment to consider anthropological questions.

 

Unit 1: Introduction to the Field of Anthropology

Unit 2: Early Theory Explaining Human Diversity and the Race Question

Unit 3: Economic Anthropology

Unit 4: Kinship

Unit 5: Political Systems

Unit 6: Gender

Unit 7: Religion

Unit 8: Medical Anthropology

Unit 9: Macro-Level Analysis, World Inequality

Candace Coffman