Anthropology /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Haviland, William A.
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fort Worth : Harcourt College Publishers, c2000.
Edición:9th ed.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: The Study of Humankind; 1. The Nature of Anthropology; 2. Methods of Studying the Human Past; 3. Biology and Evolution. Part II: Primate Evolution and the Emergence of the Hominines; 4. Monkeys, Apes, and Humans: The Modern Primates; 5. Fossil Primates; 6. The Earliest Hominines. Part III: Evolution of the Genus Homo and the Development of Early Human Culture; 7. Early Homo habilis and Cultural Origins; 8. Homo erectus and the Emergence of Hunting and Gathering; 9. Archaic Homo sapiens and the Middle Paleolithic; 10. Homo sapiens and the Upper Paleolithic. Part IV: Human Biological and Cultural Evolution Since the Old Stone Age; 11. Cultivation and Domestication; 12. The Rise of Cities and Civilization; 13. Modern Human Diversity. Part V: Culture and Survival: Communicating, Raising Children, and Staying Alive; 14. The Nature of Culture. 15. Language and Communication; 16. Growing Up Human; 17. Patterns of Subsistence; 18. Economic Systems. Part VI: The Formation of Groups: Solving the Problem of Cooperation; 19. Sex and Marriage; 20. Family and Household; 21. Kinship and Descent; 22. Grouping by Sex, Age, Common Interest, and Class. Part VII: The Search for Order: Solving the Problem of Disorder; 23. Political Organization and the Mainentance of Order.; 24. Religion and the Supernatural; 25. The Arts. Part VIII: Change and the Future: Solving the Problem of Adjusting to Changed Conditions; 26. Cultural Change; 27. Anthropology and the Future.