Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Anthropology: 2026 Release ISE
1. What Is Anthropology?
2. Culture
3. Doing Anthropology
4. Evolution, Genetics, and Human Variation
5. The Primates
6. Early Hominins
7. The Genus Homo
8. The First Farmers
9. The First Cities and States
10. Language and Communication
11. Making a Living
12. Political Systems
13. Families, Kinship, and Marriage
14. Gender
15. Religion
16. Ethnicity and Race
17. Applying Anthropology
18. The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality
19. Anthropology's Role in a Globalizing World
Window on Humanity is a brief introduction to general anthropology. It covers the four subfields—biological anthropology, anthropological archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology—as well as anthropology's two dimensions—academic and applied anthropology. Its shorter length increases instructors' options for assigning additional reading, such as case studies, within a one-semester course. Window on Humanity can also work well in a quarter system, for which traditional texts may be too long. While presenting core concepts and topics, Window also aims to demonstrate anthropology's relevance to our 21st-century world.
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