TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: The Importance of Anthropology
Chapter 2: How We Discover the Past

Part II: Human Evolution: Biological & Cultural

Chapter 3: Genetics and Evolution
Chapter 4: Human Variation and Adaptation
Chapter 5: Primates: Present and Past Chapter 6: The First Hominids and the Emergence of Homo
Chapter 7: The Homo sapiens
Chapter 8: Food Production and the Rise of States

Part III: Cultural Variation

Chapter 9: The Study of Culture
Chapter 10: Language and Communication
Chapter 11: Economics Chapter 12: Social Stratification: Class, Ethnicity, and Racism
Chapter 13: Sex and Gender
Chapter 14: Marriage, Family and Kinship
Chapter 15: Political Life
Chapter 16: Religion and Magic
Chapter 17: Culture Change and Globalization

Part IV: Using Anthropology

Chapter 18: Global Issues
Chapter 19: Applied and Practicing Anthropology

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/S

Melvin Ember taught at Antioch College and the Hunter College of the City University of New York. Since 1987, he has been President of the Human Relations Area Files, Inc., a non-profit research agency at Yale University.

Carol Ember taught from 1970 to 1996 at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Since 1996, she has served as Executive Director of the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. at Yale University.

Peter Peregrine taught at Juanita College and is curently Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.