Anthropology For Dummies. Cameron M. Smith

Classify Their Finds Chapter 6: Bones of Contention: The Fossil Evidence for Early Human Evolution Great Africa: The Earliest Hominins Stand and Deliver: The Riddles of Bipedalism All the Same from the Neck Down: The Australopithecines The Cracked Mirror: Early Homo The Traveler: The Accomplishments of Homo erectus Chapter 7: It’s Good to Be Home: Homo sapiens sapiens, Our Biological Species Distinguishing Modern Homo sapiens sapiens (That’s You!) Africa: The Cradle of Humanity Out of Africa: An Epic Dispersal The Origins of Language: The Social Grooming Theory The Origins of the Modern Mind Chapter 8: Hunting, Fishing, Sailing, and Sledding: The Dispersal of Humanity Worldwide Dispersal and Survival: The Decoupling of Behavior from Biology The Earliest Settlement of Australasia Another Grand Exploration: The Colonization of the New World Igloos, Dogs, and Whalebone Knives: The Colonization of the Arctic The Voyage of Ru and Hina: The Colonization of the Pacific High Altitude People: Early Settlement of the Tibetan Plateau Big-River People: Early Settlement of the Amazon and Congo Basins Desert People: Early Settlement of the Sahara Chapter 9: Old, Old McDonald: The Origins of Farming The Principle of Domestication Principles of Horticulture Principles of Farming Looking Back on the Origins of Farming The Early Farming Village The Making of Man’s Best Friend: the Early Domestication of Dogs Chapter 10: The Development of Civilization Human Subsistence and Social Organization The Characteristics of Civilization Charting the Rise and Fall of the First Civilizations Civilization Today: Will It Fall, Too?

      7  Part 3: Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics Chapter 11: The Spice of Life: Human Culture Demystifying the Definition of Culture What Culture Is and What Culture Isn’t Cultural Universals Having an Out-of-Body Experience Opening Your Human Behavior Owner’s Manual Getting Your Cultural Education From Mop-Tops to Mötley Crüe: What Is Cultural Change? Cultural Evolution Chapter 12: From Kalahari to Minneapolis: How Cultural Anthropologists Work Watching Cultural Anthropology Grow Up A More Personal Approach: Emic Research Considering Recent Developments Striving for Accuracy Going into the Field: Getting Prepared for Less-Than-Ideal Conditions Chapter 13: Can We Talk? Communication, Symbols, and Language Exploring the Complexity of Human Language Ready to Swear: How the Human Mind Is Hard-Wired for Language Watching Human Language Evolve Chapter 14: Types of Types: Race and Ethnicity The Kinds of Humanity: Human Physical Variation Why Is Everyone Different? Human Cultural Variation Chapter 15: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Identity, Family, Kinship, and Gender Am I “Cameron” or “a Smith”? The Scales of Human Identity A Family Affair Kinship Sex and Gender Kinship and Gender Worldwide and through Time Age and Stage of Life Chapter 16: Not at the Dinner Table! Religion and Politics What Is Religion? The Material and Supernatural Worlds Ritual and Religion The Organization of Supernatural Knowledge The Origins of Religion