Thinking Like An Anthropologist

By John Omohundro
ISBN: 0073195804
EAN: 9780073195803
PUBLISHER: Mcgraw-hill Humanities/social Sciences/languages
PUBLISHED IN: Australia, 08 January 2007
EDITION: Paperback, 464 Pages

This exciting new text teases out the common core of the cultural anthropological way of thinking, makes it explicit in a set of eleven questions, and uses those questions to enhance learning. Each question receives treatment in a brief chapter, accompanied by several exercises and classroom demonstrations. The textbook is intended to be accompanied by - and applied to - a reader, a few ethnographies, or a monograph with topical focus such as language, globalization, technology, art, or gender. The eleven questions that organize the text can be applied singly and cumulatively to address the cultures presented in the ethnographies or case studies chosen by each instructor. A comprehensive guide written by John Omohundro assists instructors who adopt this novel approach and suggests numerous examples of ethnographies and readers that would be effective companions for the text.