TY - BOOK AU - Haviland,William A. AU - Prins,Harald E.L. AU - McBride,Bunny AU - Walrath,Dana TI - Cultural anthropology: the human challenge SN - 9781305633797 AV - GN316.H38 2017 U1 - 306 23 PY - 2017/// CY - USA PB - Cengage KW - Ethnology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The essence of anthropology -- Characteristics of culture -- Ethnographic research : its history, methods, and theories -- Becoming human : the origin and diversity of our species -- Language and communication -- Social identity, personality, and gender -- Patterns of subsistence -- Economic systems -- Sex, marriage, and family -- Kinship and descent -- Grouping by gender, age, common interest, and social status -- Politics, power, war, and peace -- Spirituality, religion, and shamanism -- The arts -- Processes of cultural change -- Global challenges, local responses, and the role of anthropology ER -