Antrhopology and contemporary human problems

This book is designed for cultural anthropology courses that focus on world problems and cultural ecology. Using the cross-cultural, evolutionary, and multidisciplinary perspectives that are unique to anthropology, the text introduces srudents to the complex problems of contemporary global-scalecultures and helps students better understand their place on the global stage. In addition to updating the sources, case studies, and statiscs in the previous editions, I have sharpened the culture scala approach to make it a more effective analytical framework. The most conpicuous conceptual change from the previous edition in that small-scle, and global-scale cultures are now clled domesticscale cultures are called political -scale. and global-scale cultures are callel commercial-scale