Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

Investigating Culture offers an innovative approach to understanding culture as a constructed phenomenon open to investigation of its implicit premises and explicit forms.

• Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by challenging students to think in new ways and to apply these ideas to their own lives


• Focuses on the ways that humans orient themselves, e.g., in space and time, according to language, food, the body, and the symbols provided by public myth and ritual


• Each chapter includes: an introduction framing the central issues, examples from a range of cultures, a selected reading or two, additional suggested readings, and exercises