2nd Edition

Humans An Introduction to Four-Field Anthropology

By Alice Beck Kehoe, Andrew J Petto Copyright 2023
276 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Humans is a concise, jargon-free introduction to four-field anthropology. This book outlines and breaks down a complex discipline to identify some of the most important and relevant questions in anthropology. It provides students with an understanding of the unity of the human species, the adaptation of societies to their environments (physical and political), and an appreciation of the power of... Read more

1. Anthropology  2. Knowledges  3. Humans as a Biological Species  4. Primates  5. Human Evolution  6. Human Variation  7. Human History Through Archaeology  8. Human History in our Epoch: The Holocene  Photo Gallery  9. Communicating  10. Cultural Ecology  11. Economics  12. Regulating Societies: Power and Types of Societies  13. Regulating Societies: Law and Kinship  14. Religion 15. Twenty-First-Century Anthropology  References and Further Readings  Glossary  Study Guide  Note to Instructors

Biography

Alice Beck Kehoe conducted participant observation ethnography among North American Northern Plains First Nations and in an Aymara village in the Andes, Bolivia, and also archaeology in the Northern Plains, Tiwanaku in the Andes, and in Europe. She has taught Anthropology at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.

Andrew J Petto, PhD, is a biological anthropologist with interests in comparative anatomy, population biology, evolution, and science education. He is Distinguished Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His most recent book is Human Structure and Function (TopHat Monocle, 2022).