Books : Anthropology: The Human Challenge
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by: William A. Haviland, Harald E. L. Prins, Dana Walrath, Bunny McBride
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780495095590
ISBN: 0495095591
Label: Wadsworth Publishing
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 744
Publication Date: March 23, 2007
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Sales Rank: 266170
Studio: Wadsworth Publishing
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Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of ANTHROPOLOGY: The Human Challenge provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you make sense of today's world. With this text you will discover the different ways humans face the challenge of existence, the connection between biology and culture in the shaping of human behavior, and the impact of globalization on peoples and cultures around the world.
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Rating:  - Book of Opinions not a book of Science
The only strebgth of this text is its extensive coverage of the subject, but that is where the kudos end.
As a Paleontologist and Paleoantropologist I find that this is more about citing exampleas and then giving personal opinion, than the facts. I must say I agree with the review of "justice209" (Fargo, ND USA), that "I felt more and more like I was in church and not reading a college textbook." Many Intro courses in Anthropology use this text, probably more for the inclusive CD-ROM ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Intro text.
This is a solid introductory text which competently handles and encyclopedic load of research in a way as to invites the novice to want to learn about human biology, history, culture within the unique naturalistic holism of academic anthropology.
Excerpt: Most anthropology instructors have two goals for their introductory classes: (1) to provide an overview of principles and processes of anthropology and (2) to plant a seed of awareness about human cultural and biological diversity in their students ... Read More
Rating: - Insightful and not at all preaching.
I couldn't disagree more with the previous reviewer and felt the need to add my review to explain the absurdity of theirs. This book is very insighful, interesting, and makes perfect sense. Quite a bit of the writers opinions are included, but that is the case with most books on the social sciences. It is almost an unavoidable reality that the author will flavor the text with their own personal experience. The previous reviewer (a mathematician) seems more intent on discrediting Anthropology as a science than ... Read More
Rating:  - If I wanted to be preached at, I'd read a religious text
Being a mathematician taking an anthropology course is strange in its own right, but every time I was forced to read Haviland's text I felt more and more like I was in church and not reading a college textbook. In my field, we can either prove or disprove things, and people's opinions are rarely an issue. However, in the so-called social "sciences" this is not the case, and Haviland's book only compounds this problem. This book is absolutely painful to read, since everything is about what Haviland believes to ... Read More
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