Elements of Culture: An Applied Perspective

by Susan Andreatta, Gary Ferraro

Written by the experienced author team of Susan Andreatta and Gary Ferraro, ELEMENTS OF CULTURE: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE is a concise new text for the cultural anthropology course. It covers all the major topics in a traditional course in twelve brief chapters that allow readers to access the main concepts quickly. The book's streamlined content, pedagogy, and real-world applications focus readers on global current events and issues that illustrate the usefulness of anthropology in careers and in solving societal problems. The brief format allows instructors the flexibility to assign additional readings, including ethnographic case studies or selections from CourseReader's online "Editor's Choice" list of original applied anthropology articles.

376 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Textbook for my Cultural Anthropology class. I really enjoyed the class and even though it's not a huge interest to me I can see where parts of it lead back into my history classes and major. The book was great and I learned a lot about an area I basically knew nothing about. If you want to see what anthropologists do and how their work fits into other areas, I highly suggest taking a look at this book for a basic spectrum of the work.

[Ellie J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 stars
Recommended for people who like: anthropology, introductory textbooks

Overall the book was a good introduction to the field of cultural anthropology. I did feel at times like the authors were making judgement calls about certain cultural behaviors, attitudes, and traditions that were not necessary in a book meant to have a cultural relativist approach.