Anthropology – Age 18 (Bachelor's)
Grade Equivalents
| 🇺🇸 United States | College Freshman |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | University Year 1 |
| 🇮🇳 India | B.A./B.Sc. Year 1 |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | University Year 1 |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | University Year 1 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | University Year 1 |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | University Year 1 |
About This Textbook
This textbook is useful for both general and cultural introductory courses as well as for introductory courses in some of the anthropology subfields. It is a four-field text, grounded in foundational content in cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.
Table of Contents
What is Anthropology? — Methods: Cultural and Archaeological — Culture Concept Theory: Theories of Cultural Change — Biological Evolution and Early Human Evidence — The Genus Homo and the Emergence of Us — Language and Communication — Work, Life, and Value: Economic Anthropology — Authority, Decisions, and Power: Political Anthropology — Social Inequalities — The Global Impact of Human Migration — Forming Family through Kinship — Gender and Sexuality — Religion and Culture — Anthropology of Food — Anthropology of Media — Art, Music, and Sport — Medical Anthropology — Human-Animal Relationship — Indigenous Anthropology — Anthropology on the Ground