Through the Looking Glass
Readings in Anthropology
2nd Edition
Published on 1. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-07-228605-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Through the Looking Glass" is a brief, inexpensive collection of readings consisting of current, lively articles and book chapters taken primarily from popular books and magazines. Unlike other readers for this course, "Through the Looking Glass" covers the entire field of anthropology, including topics such as race, cultural diversity, evolution, prehistory, and economic development, making it the perfect supplementary reader for introductory anthropology courses.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
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Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-228605-2 (9780072286052)
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Lee Cronk is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick; he formerly taught at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from Northwestern University. His research interests in are the evolution of human behavior, Africa, and the Caribbean. He has done field research among the Mukogodo of Kenya and on the Honduran island of Utila. He is the author of popular articles in The Sciences, American Scientist, and The World & I and of scholarly articles in such journals as American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Human Nature, Annual Review of Anthropology, and Cultural Dynamics. In addition to this book, he has joined with his colleagues Napoleon A. Chagnon and William Irons to edit a collection of new studies in the evolution of human behavior entitled Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective, to be published in 1999 by Aldine de Gruyter. Vaughn M. Bryant is a professor of anthropology and Director of the Center for Ecological Archaeology at Texas A&M University. After receiving his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969, he taught at Washington State University before joining the newly created Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Texas A&M University in 1971. As the first anthropologist at Texas A&M, he was the first chairperson and helped build a separate doctoral-granting department of anthropology. He enjoys teaching and consistently teaches both introductory four-fields anthropology and graduate courses each semester. Dr. Bryant is a trained anthropologist and botanist who is best known for his research in paleoethnobotany (the study of how ancient humans use plants), pollen analysis, and prehistoric diet analysis. During the 1980s and 1990s, Dr. Bryant compiled a book that detailed how the vegetation and climates of North America changed during the past 30,000 years, completed the editing of the first and second editions of the McGraw Hill book, Through The Looking Glass, finished editing a book on techniques used in pollen sampling and analysis and completed an atlas of the modern pollen flora found in the Southeastern United States. Dr. Bryant is a frequent guest on television programs and has appeared on network programs including the Today Show, 1-2-3 Contact (produced by the Children's Television Workshop in New York City), CNN, BBC, Discovery Channel, FOX-Network News, and the quiz program, To Tell The Truth. Dr. Bryant also writes popular articles, which have appeared in such magazines as People, Reader's Digest, Popular Science, Biblical Archaeology, Science Digest, Scientific American, Seventeen, the National Geographic Magazine, and National Geographic World. International magazines that have featured his research include Colours, Der Spiegel, The World And I, and Geowissen Nahrung & Gesundheit. Dr. Bryant lives in College Station, Texas, where he teaches anthropology, continues his research, and enjoys time with his wife, three children, six grandchildren, and two Yorkshire Terriers.
Content
Chapter One: What is Anthropology? 1. Konner, Melvin. 1988. Everyman. The Sciences, Nov/Dec: 6-8. Chapter Two: In the Field 2. Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique. 1996. Gitangda is Great. In Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Wendy Logsdon, eds., I've Been Gone Far Too Long: Field Study Fiascoes and Expedition Disasters. Oakland, CA: RDR Books. Chapter Three: Culture 3. Payer, Lynn. 1990. Borderline Cases: How Medical Practice Reflects National Culture. The Sciences 30(4):38-42. Chapter Four: Language and Communication 4. Diamond, Jared. 1991. Reinventions of Human Language. Natural History 5/91: 22-28. Chapter Five: Ethnicity 5. Winokur, Julie. 1996/97. The Settlement. Natural History 12/96 -- 1/97, pp. 38-49. Chapter Six: Race 6. Marks, Jonathan. 1994. Black, White, Other. Natural History 12/94, pp. 32-35. Chapter Seven: Evolution and Genetics 7. Cronk, Lee. 1992. Old Dog, Old Tricks. The Sciences 32(1):13-15. 8. Root-Bernstein, Robert, and Donald L. McEachron. 1982 (October). Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy. The American Biology Teacher. Chapter Eight: The Primates 9. Smuts, Barbara. 1987. What are Friends For? Natural History 2/87: 36-44. Chapter Nine: Early Hominids 10. Small, Meredith. 1990. Political Animal. The Sciences 30(2):36-42. Chapter Ten: Modern Humans 11. Pringle, Heather. 1998. New Women of the Ice Age. Discover 19(4):62-69. Chapter Eleven: The First Farmers 12. Diamond, Jared M. 1994. How to Tame a Wild Plant. Discover 15(9):100-106. 13. Bryant, Vaughn M., Jr. 1993. In Search of the First Americans. In 1993 Yearbook of Science and the Future, pp. 8-27. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. Chapter Twelve: Making a Living 14. Bryant, Vaughn M., Jr. 1995. The Paleolithic Health Club. In 1995 Yearbook of Science and the Future, pp. 114-133. 15. Cronk, Lee. Strings Attached. The Sciences May/June: 2-4. Chapter Thirteen: Kinship and Descent 18. Chagnon, Napoleon A. 1992. Prying into Yanomamo Secrets. In Yanomamo: The Last Days of Eden, pp. 23-29, 164-170. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. Chapter Fourteen: Political Systems 16. Roach, Mary. 1998. Why Men Kill. Discover 19(12):100-108. 17. Betzig, Laura. 1994. Sex in History. Michigan Today 26(1):1-3. Chapter Fifteen: Marriage 19. Bryant, Vaughn M., Jr., and Sylvia Grider. 1991. To Kiss. The World & I, December, pp. 612-619. 20. Goldstein, Melvyn C. 1987. When Brothers Share a Wife. Natural History 3/87: 39-48. Chapter Sixteen: Gender 21. Diamond, Jared. 1993. What Are Men Good For? Natural History 5/93: 24-29. 22. Layng, Anthony. 1989. What Keeps Women 'In Their Place'? USA Today Magazine (Society for the Advancement of Education), May. Chapter Seventeen: Religion 23. Nash, June. 1994. Judas Transformed. Natural History 103(3):46-53. Chapter Eighteen: The Arts 24. Fromartz, Samuel. 1998. Anything But Quiet. Natural History 3/98, pp. 44-49. Chapter Nineteen: The Modern World System 27. Wilson, Samuel M. 1993. Coffee, Tea, or Opium? Natural History 102(11):74-79. Chapter Twenty: Development and Innovation 29. Roosevelt, Anna. 1992. Secrets of the Forest. The Sciences 32(6):22-28. Chapter Twenty-One: Cultural Exchange and Survival 30. Cronk, Lee, and Beth Leech. 1993. "Where's Koisa?" The World & I 8(1):612-621. 31. Hossack, Phil. 1999. Return of the Kayak. Canadian Geographic 119(1):58-64. Chapter Twenty-Two: Applied Anthropology 28. Kohler-Rollefson, Ilse. 1995. Camels in the Land of Kings. Natural History 104(3):54-61.