The Tapestry of Culture

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The Tapestry of Culture is a brief, affordable introduction to cultural anthropology, designed to provide a conceptual framework with which to read and understand both classic and contemporary ethnographies. The text uses a comparative approach and it emphasizes the interpretation of symbols and the meaning of things. The new edition has revised the presentation of material and offers expanded, bulleted chapter summaries, more clearly defined and highlighted key terms, additional headings and suggested readings and web sites. A revised chapter 1 gives students a clear introduction to get them started in the course. In addition, numerous chapter-by-chapter content changes have been added throughout the book including splitting a former chapter into two new chapters to increase the coverage of applied anthropology in a new chapter 13 and new material on Afghanistan in chapter 15..ter 15..


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This brief,affordable introduction to cultural anthropology is designed to be used with ethnographies or other supplemental readings. The Tapestry of Culture was written to give students a concise and up-to-date conceptual framework with which to understand classic ethnographies as well as those being written today. The distinguishing conceptual approach of this text is symbolic,emphasizing the arts and symbols of culture. For example,there is a whole chapter devoted to "Myths,Legends,and Folktales (chapter 11),as well as "Religion and the Supernatural" (chapter 10). Rosman and Rubel also examine anthropology and the concern with meaning from a postmodernist perspective,looking at the sweeping changes in our world resulting from ethnicity and ethnic identity,technology,and conceptualizations of gender and gender roles,among other issues.


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