Anthropology: asking questions about human origins, diversity, and culture
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Beteiligte Personen: Welsch, Robert Louis 1950- (VerfasserIn), Vivanco, Luis A. 1969- (VerfasserIn), Fuentes, Agustín 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press [2025]
Ausgabe:Third edition
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Abstract:"Humans are fascinating and complex beings. With our large brains, flexible diets, and ability to get around on two feet, evolutionary history has made us different from other primates and facilitated our adaptation to practically any environment on the planet. At the same time, we are more than our biology, and there is nothing we do that does not involve culture, which encompasses our capacities for symbolic communication, intensive social cooperation, intergenerational learning, and metaphysical thinking. These points raise some interesting questions: What is it about our humanity that distinguishes us from other species? What is culture and how does it shape our origins, prehistoric pasts, and present? How do we as humans construct meaningful social worlds? What are the reasons for human biological and cultural diversity? Such questions are at the core of the study of anthropology"--
Beschreibung:Second edition: © 2020
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 517-535
Umfang:xxxiv, 557 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten 28 cm
ISBN:9780197666968
0197666965