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Anthropology Carol R. Ember

Anthropology By Carol R. Ember

Anthropology by Carol R. Ember


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For one-semester courses in General Anthropology or courses where supplementary readings are used.

This concise version of Ember/Ember's larger best-selling introductory text provides an ideal core book for General Anthropology and can be used in conjunction with a book of selected readings or ethnographies.

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About Carol R. Ember

Carol R. Ember started at Antioch College as a chemistry major. She began taking social science courses because some were required, but she soon found herself intrigued. There were lots of questions without answers, and she became excited about the possibility of a research career in social science. She spent a year in graduate school at Cornell studying sociology before continuing on to Harvard, where she studied anthropology primarily with John and Beatrice Whiting.

For her Ph.D. dissertation, she worked among the Luo of Kenya. While there she noticed that many boys were assigned girls' work, such as baby-sitting and household chores, because their mothers (who did most of the agriculture) did not have enough girls to help out. She decided to study the possible effects of task assignment on the social behavior of boys. Using systematic behavior observations, she compared girls, boys who did a great deal of girls' work, and boys who did little such work. She found that boys assigned girls' work were intermediate in many social behaviors, compared with the other boys and girls. Later, she did cross-cultural research on variation in marriage, family, descent groups, and war and peace, mainly in collaboration with Melvin Ember, whom she married in 19'70. All of these cross-cultural studies tested theories on data for worldwide samples of societies. Their book, Cross-Cultural Research Methods, was designated an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002 by Choice magazine.

From 1970 to 1996, she taught at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She has also served as president of the Society of Cross-Cultural Research and was one of the directors of the Summer Institutes in Comparative Anthropological Research, which were funded by the National Science Foundation. She is now executive director at the Human Relations Area Files, Inc., a nonprofit research agency at Yale University.

After graduating from Columbia College, Melvin Ember went to Yale University for his Ph.D. His mentor at Yale was George Peter Murdock, an anthropologist who was instrumental in promoting cross-cultural research and building a full-text database on the cultures of the world to facilitate cross-cultural hypothesis testing. This database came to be known as the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) because it was originally sponsored by the Institute of Human Relations at Yale. Growing in annual installments and now distributed in electronic format, the HRAF ethnographic database currently covers more than 370 cultures, past and present, all over the world.

Melvin Ember did fieldwork for his dissertation in American Samoa, where he conducted a comparison of three villages to study the effects of commercialization on political life. In addition, he did research on descent groups and how they changed with the increase of buying and selling. His cross-cultural studies focused originally on variation in marital residence and descent groups. He has also done cross-cultural research on the relationship between economic and political development, the origin and extension of the incest taboo, the causes of polygyny, and how archaeological correlates of social customs can help us draw inferences about the past.

After four years of research at the National Institute of Mental Health, he taught at Antioch College and then Hunter College of the City University of New York. He has served as president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and has been president since 1987 of the Human Relations Area Files, Inc., a nonprofit research agency 4t Yale University.

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY.

1. What Is Anthropology?
2. Discovering and Explaining the Past and Present.

II. HUMAN EVOLUTION: BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL.

3. Genetics and Evolution.
4. Primate Evolution: From Early Primates to Hominoids.
5. The First Hominoids.
6. The Origins of Culture and the Emergence of Homo.
7. The Emergence of Homo sapiens.
8. The Emergence of Food Production and the Rise of States.
9. Human Variation and Adaptation.

III. CULTURAL VARIATION.

10. The Concept of Culture.
11. Communication and Language.
12. Getting Food.
13. Economic Systems.
14. Social Stratification: Class, Ethnicity, and Racism.
15. Sex, Gender, and Culture.
16. Marriage and the Family.
17. Marital Residence and Kinship.
18. Political Life: Social Order and Disorder.
19. Religion and Magic.

IV. USING ANTHROPOLOGY.

20. Applied and Practicing Anthropology.
21. Medical Anthropology.
22. Global Social Problems.
Glossary.
Notes.
Bibliography.

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CIN0130979554G
9780130979551
0130979554
Anthropology: A Brief Introduction by Carol R. Ember
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
20040203
553
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