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Anthropology / Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember.
- Title
- Anthropology / Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember.
- Author
- Ember, Carol R.
- Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1985.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ANT. Em 13 a 1985 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Ember, Melvin
- Description
- xvi, 528 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Subject
- Anthropology
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 494-516.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction to anthropology. What is anthropology? -- Human evolution : biological and cultural. Evolution ; The surviving primates ; Primative evolution : from early primates to hominids ; Early hominids and their cultures ; The emergence of homo sapiens and middle and upper Paleolithic cultures ; Human variation ; Origins of food production and settled life ; Origins of cities and states -- Cultural variation. The concept of culture ; Schools of thought in cultural anthropology ; Explanation and evidence ; Language and culture ; Food-getting ; Economic systems ; Social stratification ; Sex and culture ; Marriage and the family ; marital residence and kinship ; Associations and interest groups ; Political organization : social order and disorder ; Psychology and culture ; Religion and magic ; The arts -- Culture and anthropology in the modern world. Culture change ; Applied anthropology ; Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0130370452
- LCCN
- ^^^84011794^
- OCLC
- 11468105
- SCSB-10334017
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library