Jane Urquhart,Joy Hendry

Anthropology

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In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including how witchcraft has been used to justify misfortune, and debunk old-fashioned ideas about “race” based upon the latest genetic research. They even share what our bathroom tells us about our concept of the body – and ourselves.
From our evolutionary ancestors, through our rites of passage, to our responses to globalization, Hendry and Underdown provide the essential first step to understanding the world as an anthropologist would – in all its diversity and commonality.
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  • Carl Nors Mariagerhas quoted6 years ago
    to recognize (for instance) that behaviours which one group may dismiss as ‘backwardness’ or even ‘fanaticism’ constitute strategies of defence and protection in the eyes of another.
  • Carl Nors Mariagerhas quoted6 years ago
    For example, advising some of our best-known politicians before they decided to invade and reorganize, according to Western values, the lands of people who live by different codes.
  • Carl Nors Mariagerhas quoted6 years ago
    These examples introduce the way in which reference to basic differences in the biological makeup of our bodies may be used to express various social systems of classification.

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