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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN num: 9780495509288
ISBN number: 0495509280
Label: Wadsworth Publishing
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 358
Printing Date: July 28, 2008
Publishing house: Wadsworth Publishing
Sale Popularity Level: 11373
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Learn anthropology within a strong active learning environment when you open Robbins' unique Fifth Edition. This brief, cost-effective text presents a variety of questions focused on the most important issues anthropologists study in very first of-of-its-kind, problem-based format. You'll find yourself thinking critically about today's world as you read engaging Chapter Openers, complete integrated exercises, and review unique Case Studies in Doing Anthropology at the end of each chapter, now with new locator maps for your convenience. Robbins's text presents a variety of questions focused on the most important issues anthropologists study in a unique, problem-based format. Within the book's engaging narrative, you'll learn how to analyze your own culture as a basis for understanding the cultures of others. Presentations organized around problems rather than topics, creating a natural discusion of traditional concerns, such as kinship, caste, gender roles, and religion. Meaningful questions integrated throughout further guide you in exploring these subjects.
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As a prof, I was happy to assign this book. After all, I loved Robbins' Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (4th Edition) (a fabulous book), and I needed a basic anthro text to provide basics. And, indeed, many basic anthropological themes are offered. However, the organization and style of presentation are terribly awkward. The book is more or less ruined by a question and answer format. The text is boring to read, and difficult to work with. I found it very difficult to integrate into my course. Say, for example, I wanted to work with kinship... the book's strange splicing of the subject, teamed with its fumbled questions, left me flummoxed. I will continue to look for Robbins work, but I will never assign this book again.
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