Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General AnthropologyProfessor Harris - the leading theorist in cultural materialism - bases this comprehensive work on the perspective of thematic and theoretical coherence, giving the book depth and continuity. Speaking directly to students, helpful chapter introductions and end-of-chapter summaries focus on key points before and after reading each chapter. This seventh edition includes meticulous updating of research and scholarship, especially in the very active field of physical anthropology and archaeology. A new feature - "America Now Updates" - turns an anthropological eye on the contemporary U.S., emphasizing the comparative aspects of anthropology and making the discipline relevant to students. |
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Page 168
... ment of composite tools ( i.e. , tools that have several parts ) , such as harpoons and hafted weapons and projectiles . Projectile points with special shoulders or tangs for attach- ment to spears , plus evidence for the use of traps ...
... ment of composite tools ( i.e. , tools that have several parts ) , such as harpoons and hafted weapons and projectiles . Projectile points with special shoulders or tangs for attach- ment to spears , plus evidence for the use of traps ...
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... ment of American metallurgical techniques had already passed beyond the hammering of sheet copper to the smelting and casting of copper , gold , silver , and several alloys . ( Fig.11.21 ) . Just before the Conquest , bronze mace heads ...
... ment of American metallurgical techniques had already passed beyond the hammering of sheet copper to the smelting and casting of copper , gold , silver , and several alloys . ( Fig.11.21 ) . Just before the Conquest , bronze mace heads ...
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... ment that required emigrants to adopt a new and less efficient mode of production and to suffer a decline in their standard of living . Most of the earliest states were circumscribed by their dependence on modes of production associated ...
... ment that required emigrants to adopt a new and less efficient mode of production and to suffer a decline in their standard of living . Most of the earliest states were circumscribed by their dependence on modes of production associated ...
Contents
Why Study Anthropology? | 5 |
Organic Evolution | 9 |
The Inheritance of Genes | 11 |
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