1st Edition
The Origin of Cultures How Individual Choices Make Cultures Change
By W Penn Handwerker
Copyright 2009
155 Pages
by
Routledge
155 Pages
by
Routledge
155 Pages
by
Routledge
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What makes a 17-year-old girl decide to wrap a bomb around her body, walk into a supermarket, and detonate it, killing herself and an 18-year old girl shopping there? In this provocative and important book, renowned anthropologist W. Penn Handwerker shows that individual choices, from the fatal to the mundane, are fundamentally questions of culture—what it is, where it comes from, and the complex... Read more
Chapter One The Puzzle; Chapter Two What Makes a Door?; Chapter Three Sensory Fields and Cultural Outputs; Chapter 4 Why We Don't Learn What We Could; Chapter Five Consequences Depend on the Distribution of Power; Chapter Six Lessons Learned;
Biography
W Penn Handwerker
