An accessible and comprehensive introduction to cultural and social
anthropology
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Sharing Our Worlds* offers readers the perfect introduction to cultural
and social anthropology, introducing the classic theoretical ideas of
its key founders and placing them in their historical and geographical
context. This new edition is fully updated, including "topics for
reflection" at the end of each chapter which offer topics for debate and
further discussion as well as a new final chapter illuminating the
valuable ways in which anthropology may be used in the world at large.
This comprehensive text covers the anthropology's core topics in an
even-handed and illuminating manner, introducing the reader to divergent
views on all of the most basic subjects, including food, hygiene,
gift-exchange, rites of passage, symbolism, religion, politics, and the
environment, and raising awareness of the emotional value people place
on those views. Incorporating a wide array of countries, it brings the
subject of cultural and social anthropology right into the neighborhood
of the readers, wherever they are in the world.
Written in a refreshingly accessible style, the volume offers a
compelling introduction to an enigmatic and exciting subject, drawing
out its relevance and value for the complex multicultural world in which
we live.
