Horizons of Anthropology

Herausgeber: Tax, Sol

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The scientific study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780202361406
• ISBN-10: 0202361403
• Artikelnr.: 22938767

Autorenporträt

SOL TAX is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and is Editor of Current Anthropology. His field work among Middle and North American Indians has resulted in such books as Penny Capitalism and Heritage of Conquest, and in the development of what is now called Action Anthropology. He has edited many books, including the three-volume symposium, Evolution After Darwin. He was President of the Ameri- 10 Contributors can Anthropological Association in 1958-59 and in 1962 received the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Setting of the Science of Man 2. The Evolution of Social Life 3. The
Transition to Humanity 4. The Hominization Process 5. Human Populations 6.
The Psychological Approach in Anthropology 7. Language and Thought 8. A
Perspective for Linguistic Anthropology 9. The Study of Evolution 10. The
Origins of Agriculture 11. Culture and Environment 12. Perspectives Gained
from Field Work 13. Social Organization 14. The Organization of Economic
Life 15. Anthropology and the Study of Politics 16. Anthropology and the
Law 17. Evolution and the Ills of Mankind 18. The Study of Religion 19. The
Arts and Anthropology 20. Equality and Inequality in Human Societies 21.
The Uses of Anthropology