Resources Tagged: Ethnology
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1997-01-01 In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill,New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer...
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2000-01-01 This unique resource is the first attempt ever made to profile all the people groups of China! It is based onfield research; the harvest of more than ten years' work. It includes important new ethnolographical and anthropological material and is indexed and with an extensive bibliography of...
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This provocative and authoritative study of the impact of modern technical advances on the traditional life in 5 representative old societies was prepared by an outstanding group of international social scientists under the direction of the renowned and anthropoligist, Margaret Mead.
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The Study of Cultural Anthropology is an introduction to the subject. In presenting the processes and principles of cultural anthropology, the book has taken an eclectic approach. Because of the holistic nature of the discipline, the data from physical anthropology and archaeology are woven into...