In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular
Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural anthropology that is even more accessible to students.
- Revised and enhanced new edition that incorporates additional material and classroom feedback
- Accessible to a wider range of students and educational settings
- Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by challenging students to think in new ways and to apply ideas of culture 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
- Includes chapters that frame the central issues and provide examples from a range of cultures, with selected readings, additional suggested readings, and student exercises
This exciting new edition of
Investigating Culture offers a refreshing hands-on alternative to more traditional textbooks not so much by teaching facts
about other cultures as helping students learn how to go about studying any culture, including their own. Delaney and Kaspin teach students to think like anthropologists, training them to confront the reflexive nature of anthropology early on and to distance themselves from the inherent flaws of studying the "exotic Other."
Investigating Culture focuses on the variety of ways that humans orient themselves, in space and time, by means of language, the body, the structures of everyday life, and the symbols of religion and public ritual. Each chapter includes an introduction outlining the central issues, examples from a variety of cultures, supplemented by selected classic readings, suggested additional readings, and a series of exercises designed to make the analysis of culture personally accessible.
