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Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, OpenStax Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning.
Anthropology, the study of humanity, is guided by a central narrative and set of research commitments. Anthropology aims to overcome bias by examining cultures as complex, integrated products of specific environmental and historical conditions.
Through the comparative study of different cultures, anthropology explores fundamental questions about what it means to be human. It seeks to understand how culture shapes societies, from the smallest island in the South Pacific to the largest Asian metropolis, and affects the way institutions work, from scientific …. Show more.
Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, OpenStax Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning.
1.1 The Study of Humanity, or "Anthropology Is Vast" 1.2 The Four-Field Approach: Four Approaches within the Guiding Narrative; 1.3 Overcoming Ethnocentrism; 1.4 Western Bias in Our Assumptions about Humanity; 1.5 Holism, Anthropology’s Distinctive Approach; 1.6 Cross-Cultural Comparison and Cultural Relativism; 1.7 Reaching for an Insider ...
Introduction to Anthropology. Spring 2013. Midterm study guide. The midterm will consist of a fifty-minute, closed-book examination comprising multiple choice and short answer (i.e., 3 or 4 sentences) questions.
I. Organize Reading Over the Weeks and Months. Look over the material to be covered (syllabus and tables of contents in assigned books). Estimate the amount of reading for the semester and try to divide the work on a weekly basis. Some weeks may have more reading assigned while other weeks less.
