Anthropology Appreciating Human Diversity 14th Edition by Conrad Phillip Kottak

Anthropology Appreciating Human Diversity 14th Edition by Conrad Phillip KottakISBN: 9780078116995MHID: 0078116996When I wrote the fi rst edition of this book in the 1970s, the fi eld of anthropology was changing rapidly. Anthropologistswere writing about a ?new archaeology? and a ?new ethnography.? Studies of language as actually used in societywere revolutionizing overly formal and static linguistic models. Symbolic and interpretive approaches were joiningecological and materialist ones. I strove to write a book that addressed all these changes, while also providing a solidfoundation of core concepts and the basics.Anthropology continues to be an exciting fi eld. Profound changes?including advances in communication and transportation,the expansion of global capitalism, and the challenges of a changing climate?have affected the people andsocieties that anthropologists study. While any competent text must present anthropology?s core, it must also demonstrateanthropology?s relevance to Today’s world.