Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology

Perspectives in Cultural AnthropologyDesigned as a reader for courses, this anthology presents an array of theories and interpretations in the field of modern cultural anthropology. It provides a deeper understanding of the major theoretical orientations which have historically guided and currently guide anthropological research.

We then discuss the challenges the field is facing and ways to overcome these challenges

Placing Avery's work within a long history of modernist practice that recognizes the artist's sketch as a "final

and Wittgenstein's therapeutic interventions as the most fitting philosophical orientation toward early Confucian ethics

specifically utilizing appropriate techniques

and optical approaches

battle-tested veteran disillusioned by the unseemly political machinations of war

including such areas as religious and political attitudes and implications for health

This thesis is powerfully demonstrated by John Denis Haeger in this study concerning the "Old Northwest" (the present-day states of Ohio

attributed to Vasubandhu and translated into Chinese by Paramartha in the sixth century

Gallantry is a captivating collection of tales from a historical period not so different from our own

In trying to reconcile the gap between those systems

Expanded coverage of surviving a suicide as a family member