Anthropology: Suggested Books & Titles

The most successful new textbook in a generation, Ken Guest's text shows students that now, more than ever, global forces affect local culture. Students learn that the tools of cultural anthropology are relevant to their life in our globalized world.

This book discusses how anthropology developed in the nineteenth century during what has been called the Second Scientific Revolution.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes, including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information.

This book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field.

The dynamic discourse stimulated by 78 magnificent objects created by Native Americans over the years, now housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the responses of contemporary Native Americans to those objects forms the core of this book.