Invitation to Anthropology - Softcover

Lassiter Marshall University, Luke Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759122547 ISBN 13: 9780759122543

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

In this concise introduction to cultural anthropology, now in its 4th edition, Lassiter takes a fresh and accessible approach to stimulating student interest in the human experience. He uses timely and engaging examples to showcase the ongoing relevance of anthropology today. He also explores how the anthropological perspective can be applied to real-world problems on the local, regional, and global scale.

The 4th edition features updates and clarifications throughout the text, including expanded discussion of evolution, language, fieldwork, gender identities, and belief systems. New “Anthropology Here and Now” sidebars encourage readers to delve deeper into particular subjects and to connect with current and ongoing conversations among working anthropologists. Taken as a whole, the book serves as an ideal text for introductory undergraduate courses.

About this title

About the Author:

Luke Eric Lassiter is professor of humanities and anthropology and director of the Graduate Humanities Program at Marshall University.

Review:

Fresh, exciting, relevant and extremely useful to students and faculty alike. (Praise from Previous Edition)--Lee D. Baker, Duke University"

Lassiter's introduction to anthropology promises to keep deep and strong contact with real currents of today's life and to pull students into those currents. (Praise from Previous Edition)--James L. Peacock III, author, The Anthropological Lens; University of North Carolina; former president, American Anthropological Association; and chair, Committee formulating the 1998 AAA code of ethics"

Seldom have students announced in class that they enjoyed reading a text book, yet my students did this very thing, raving about Invitation to Anthropology s ease of use, small, size, and, more importantly, how clearly it presented the concepts of cultural anthropology. (Praise from Previous Edition)--Sebastian LeBeau II, Minnesota State University - Mankato"

Lassiter offers a fresh and accessible approach to anthropology for both the academic and the non-specialist. His evangelical message about the relevance of anthropology is timely and engaging. Moving beyond the popular stereotypes of Indiana-Jones-ish anthropologists documenting fertility dances among remote tribes, Lassiter illustrates the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological perspective for real world problems on the local, regional and global scale. (Praise from Previous Edition)--Celeste Ray, University of the South"

The writing is lively, the illustrations and examples are engaging and relevant. I would absolutely recommend it to colleagues. (Praise from Previous Edition)--Colleen E. Boyd, Ball State University"

I was looking for a relatively small-sized text, so that other readings could be assigned; one that is not organized by 'band, tribe, chiefdom, state' and 'hunters and gatherers, horticulturalists, etc.' but that does contain basic information about the differences these types of cultures bring with them; and a text that deals with methods and explores what it means to be an anthropologist. I found all three in Invitation to Anthropology. --Melinda Bollar Wagner, Radford University"

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0759122547
• ISBN 13: 9780759122543
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 252