Vital to libraries, teachers, and undergraduate students and their writings, this anthology offers contemporary analysis of American culture in new essays written exclusively for this book by leading anthropologists. The new essays are set against the perspective of several renowned anthropologists (Malinowski, Eric Wolf, Marvin Harris, Marshall Sahlins, etc.) to offer a uniquely anthropological perspective on the most challenging issues of our time, from immigration to job exportation to the recent financial meltdown.
- ISBN13 9781594517808
- Publish Date 1 December 2009
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Paradigm
- Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
- Pages 352
- Language English