Anthropology for Dummies - Cameron M Smith

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INTRODUCTION 1 PART 1: WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY? 7 CHAPTER 1: Human Beings and Being Human: An Overview of Anthropology 9 CHAPTER 2: Looking Into Humanity's Mirror: Anthropology's History 17 CHAPTER 3: Actually, Four Mirrors: How Anthropology Is Studied 31 PART 2: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 57 CHAPTER 4: The Wildest Family Reunion: Meet the Primates 59 CHAPTER 5: My Career Is in Ruins: How Anthropologists Learn about the Past 83 CHAPTER 6: Bones of Contention: The Fossil Evidence for Early Human Evolution 101 CHAPTER 7: It's Good to Be Home: Homo sapiens sapiens, Our Biological Species 125 CHAPTER 8: Hunting, Fishing, Sailing, and Sledding: The Dispersal of Humanity Worldwide 145 CHAPTER 9: Old, Old McDonald: The Origins of Farming 165 CHAPTER 10: The Development of Civilization 189 PART 3: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS 213 CHAPTER 11: The Spice of Life: Human Culture 215 CHAPTER 12: From Kalahari to Minneapolis: How Cultural Anthropologists Work 233 CHAPTER 13: Can We Talk? Communication, Symbols, and Language 251 CHAPTER 14: Types of Types: Race and Ethnicity 271 CHAPTER 15: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Identity, Family, Kinship, and Gender 287 CHAPTER 16: Not at the Dinner Table! Religion and Politics 305 PART 4: SO WHAT? ANTHROPOLOGY, THE MODERN WORLD, AND YOU 323 CHAPTER 17: Kiss or Kill? Diversity, Conflict, and Culture 325 CHAPTER 18: Looming Disasters? From Overpopulation to Space Debris 339 CHAPTER 19: Eve and the Iceman: The Cutting Edge of Physical Anthropology 355 CHAPTER 20: Stonehenge and You: Why Archaeology Matters 367 PART 5: THE PART OF TENS 379 CHAPTER 21: Ten Things to Remember About Anthropology, Whatever Else You Forget 381 CHAPTER 22: Ten Great Careers for Anthropology Majors 387 CHAPTER 23: Ten (Or So) Great Anthropologically Themed Movies and Books 393 CHAPTER 24: The Top Ten Myths about the Human Past 397 INDEX 405