Human Societies: A Brief Introduction [Paperback]

Human Societies: A Brief Introduction succinctly covers the basic concepts of Cultural Anthropology in a way that is relevant and engaging to the introductory student. It is essential reading for undergraduate students making their first steps into Cultural and Applied Anthropology.

1. Anthropology  2. A Short History of Cultural Anthropology 3. Doing Cultural Anthropology  4. Culture, Societies, Personality, and Worldview  5. Societies in Their Environments  6. Social Organization  7. Political Organization  8. Economic Organization  9: Food and Subsistence  10. Sex, Gender, and Identity  11. Religion and Ritual  12. Knowledge and Expressive Culture  13. Change and Development  14. Applying Anthropology

Mark Q. Sutton is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at California State University, Bakersfield. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside, in 1987.

Human Societies: A Brief Introduction succinctly covers the basic concepts of cultural anthropology in a way that is relevant and engaging to the introductory student. Less time is spent on anthropological detail and more time on the relevance of anthropological understanding to the contemporary world.

The issues facing the contemporary Western world are also confronting the thousands of other societies. The book deals with topics such as the variety of sexualities, the thousands of religions, how people adapt to their environments, the ways people organize themselves, the multitude of foods and cuisines, adaptations to climate change, refugees and migrants, and the many different approaches to reproduction; all topics to which students should already be generallyl³.