"Investigating Culture" offers an innovative approach to understanding culture as a constructed phenomenon open to investigation of its implicit premises and explicit forms. This book provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by challenging students to think in new ways and to apply these ideas to their own lives. It focuses on the ways that humans orient themselves, e.g., in space and time, according to language, food, the body, and the symbols provided by public myth and ritual. Each chapter includes: an introduction framing the central issues, examples from a range of cultures, a selected reading or two, additional suggested readings, and exercises.
- ISBN10 6613408530
- ISBN13 9786613408532
- Publish Date 6 April 2011 (first published 19 December 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
- Format eBook
- Pages 424
- Language English