Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

The third edition of Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology, the highly praised innovative approach to introducing aspects of cultural anthropology to students, features a series of revisions, updates, and new material.

• Offers a refreshing alternative to introductory anthropology texts by challenging students to think in new ways and apply cultural learnings to their own lives
• Chapters explore key anthropological concepts of human culture including: language, the body, food, and time, and provide an array of cultural examples in which to examine them
• Incorporates new material reflecting the authors’ research in Malawi, New England, and Spain
• Takes account of the latest information on such topical concerns as nuclear waste, sports injuries, the World Trade Center memorial, the food pyramid, fashion trends, and electronic media
• Includes student exercises, selected reading and additional suggested readings

• Elements of Culture: An Applied Perspective
• Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology
• In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)
• Culture Sketches: Case Studies in Anthropology
• Peripheral Visions: Learning along the Way
• Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
• Righteous Dopefiend (California Series in Public Anthropology)
• Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (Global Insecurities)
• Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World (California Series in Public Anthropology)
• Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999