Companion encyclopedia of anthropology. /
Companion encyclopedia of anthropology. /
edited by Tim Ingold.
- London : Routledge, c1997.
- xxxiv, 1127 p. : ill. 23 cm.
Concerns human life in all it's aspects.It puts emphasis on "humanity","culture",and "social life".On humanity,it stresses that human beings as memebers of a species and on how human populations have adapted to-and in turn transformed -their environments.Culture focuses on on the origination ,structure,transmission and material expression of the symbolically constituted froms of human culture,and on the role of culture in action,perception and cognition.Social life examines various facets-familial,economic,political,etc.-of the relationships and processes that are carried on by persons and groups,through the medium of cultural forms,in the historical process of social life.
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Anthropology
Concerns human life in all it's aspects.It puts emphasis on "humanity","culture",and "social life".On humanity,it stresses that human beings as memebers of a species and on how human populations have adapted to-and in turn transformed -their environments.Culture focuses on on the origination ,structure,transmission and material expression of the symbolically constituted froms of human culture,and on the role of culture in action,perception and cognition.Social life examines various facets-familial,economic,political,etc.-of the relationships and processes that are carried on by persons and groups,through the medium of cultural forms,in the historical process of social life.
0-415-16421-4
Anthropology
