Cultural Anthropology [with MyAnthroLab & eText Access Code]

by Nancy Bonvillain

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Genres: School, Nonfiction, Anthropology

552 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

About the author

Dr. Bonvillain is an authority on Native American cultures and languages. She is the author of books on the Mohawk language and on the Huron, the Mohawk, the Hopi, the Teton Sioux, the Navajo, the Inuit, the Zuni, and the Santee Sioux and on Native American Religion and Native American medicine. She has written on gender, linguistics, and narrative.

Dr. Bonvillain has written four textbooks: Language, Culture and Communication; Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender; Native Nations: Cultures and Histories of Native North America; and Cultural Anthropology. Her articles have appeared in Anthropological Linguistics, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, International Journal of American Linguistics, Dialectic Anthropology, Papers on Iroquoian Research, and in several collections. She has taught at Columbia University, SUNY Purchase and Stonybrook, the New School for Social Research, and Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. Bonvillain has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Her fieldwork has been with the Navajo and on the Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve.

Reviews

[Lia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesomely interesting! But I am an anthropology major. A couple of minor issues about clarity in a sentence here and there might be an editing oversight, but the content was so meaty I had to give it all the stars! I also dislike the layout of textbooks, where sidebars interrupt the flow of reading and sometimes get inserted right into the section you're reading, but I've come to expect it. It's how these things are done. This book is especially good with balancing gender perspective, addressing globalization, and examining issues anthropology itself had historically and deals with currently.

I'll probably be re-reading this in the future. I highly recommend it, even to non-students who think culture is interesting.

[melanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yet another tasty summer read!!!

[Amanda Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great introduction to anthropology.