Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General AnthropologyWritten by a foremost spokesperson on cultural materialism, this book introduces students to the four fields of anthropology making all aspects of archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology and cultural anthropology accessible and relevant to readers. |
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... animal kingdom . Human beings are Animalia : mobile , multi- celled organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms . Animals are radically different from members of other kingdoms , such as plants , bacteria , one - celled ...
... animal kingdom . Human beings are Animalia : mobile , multi- celled organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms . Animals are radically different from members of other kingdoms , such as plants , bacteria , one - celled ...
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... animal life . With each advance of the glaciers , warm - weather species of animals were driven south , tundras replaced plains , plains replaced forests , forests turned to deserts , and elsewhere , deserts bloomed . The quality and ...
... animal life . With each advance of the glaciers , warm - weather species of animals were driven south , tundras replaced plains , plains replaced forests , forests turned to deserts , and elsewhere , deserts bloomed . The quality and ...
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... animals as part of a single process . As humans began to obtain their food in a new way , plants and animals were forced into new relationships with each other . The wild grasses , including the ancestors of wheat and barley , had been ...
... animals as part of a single process . As humans began to obtain their food in a new way , plants and animals were forced into new relationships with each other . The wild grasses , including the ancestors of wheat and barley , had been ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PART I | 7 |
Dominant and Recessive Genes | 14 |
Copyright | |
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Acheulean adaptive Africa agriculture alleles American ancestors animals anthropologists apes Aurignacian australopithecines band and village basic behavior bones chief chiefdoms chimpanzees common complex cultural domestic groups economic emic emic and etic erectus etic Europe evolution example exchange female FIGURE fossil gathering gender genes genetic habitat hominids homosexual human hunter-gatherers hunters hunting increase India individuals industrial infant infrastructural known Kung Kung San labor land language living maize male marriage matrilineal matrilocal meat Mesolithic modern sapiens modes of production mother native American natural Neandertals Neolithic nuclear family organization patterns peasants percent personality phonemes plants political polygyny pongids population poverty primates racial reciprocal region relationship reproduction result rituals role sexual shaman social societies SOURCE species structure theory tion trade traditions Trobriand ture Upper Paleolithic warfare women World Yanomamö