Thinking Like an Anthropologist: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

by John Omohundro

This exciting new text teases out the common core of the cultural anthropological way of thinking, makes it explicit in a set of eleven questions, and uses those questions to enhance learning. Each question receives treatment in a brief chapter, accompanied by several exercises and classroom demonstrations. The textbook is intended to be accompanied by―and applied to―a reader, a few ethnographies, or a monograph with topical focus such as language, globalization, technology, art, or gender. The eleven questions that organize the text can be applied singly and cumulatively to address the cultures presented in the ethnographies or case studies chosen by each instructor. A comprehensive guide written by John Omohundro assists instructors who adopt this novel approach and suggests numerous examples of ethnographies and readers that would be effective companions for the text.

Genres: Anthropology

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 8, 2007

Reviews

[Denielle]

This was a required text for my college Cultural Anthropology course. I really love how this textbook was written. The author intersperses stories from his own work in anthropology with the text, giving you real world examples to see the concepts in action. I not only came away with a better understanding of cultural anthropology, but also a new way of thinking of the world as a whole.