num_pages: 398
description: This comprehensive volume reflects recent anthropological research and controversial developments, while integrating features in each chapter to spark and maintain reader interest. A focus on applied anthropology discusses the history and types in the Unites States, and shows how the work of applied anthropologists is playing more of a role in the planning of possible solutions to various global social problems?including AIDS, disasters, homelessness, crime, family violence, and war. The volume offers an introduction to anthropology, cultural variation and using applied anthropology and medical anthropology to address global social problems. For individuals interested in exploring the far-reaching aspects of anthropology.
language: English
title: Cultural Anthropology
titlecomplete: Cultural Anthropology (10th Edition)
genres: Anthropology, Science, Reference, Textbooks, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 78
publisher: Pearson College Div