"This simple and accessible book highlights anthropology's relevance to students' everyday lives. Introductory students will love it!" - Todd Sanders, University of Toronto
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This text, aimed at first or second-year students, describes the research methods, perspectives, and application of anthropology to the real world. It links anthropology concepts to a variety of contemporary issues and practices from a global perspective, discussing participant observation and fieldwork challenges, enculturation and culture shock, applied economic anthropology and consumer habits, religion and ethnic conflict, enthnocentrism and immigration, and cultural diffusion and body image. Other topics include cultural relativism and female circumcision, cross-cultural comparison and aging, cultural imperialism and missionism, gender stratification and purdah, inequality and same-sex marriage, and popular culture and the media. The text is meant to supplement introductory anthropology textbooks. Fedorak teaches socio-cultural anthropology and archaeology at the U. of Saskatchewan, Canada. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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