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Why Humans Have Cultures: Explaining Anthropology and Social Diversity

by Michael Carrithers

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Why Humans Have Cultures examines three basic questions: what unity underlies human cultural diversity? What are the origins of that diversity? How can we understand it? The author argues that it is the ways in which people interact--rather than tech... Read more
Why Humans Have Cultures examines three basic questions: what unity underlies human cultural diversity? What are the origins of that diversity? How can we understand it? The author argues that it is the ways in which people interact--rather than technological advances--that have been of crucial importance in human history. In this thought-provoking book, Carrithers draws on ancient and contemporary examples to show how this perspective forms a solid foundation for the study of culture, society, and history. Less

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File size7.72 X 5.08 X 0.63 in
Print pages240
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date April 1, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780192892119
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Michael Carrithers
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Michael Carrithers is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham and author of The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka and Why Humans Have Cultures: Explaining Anthropology and Social Diversity (both...

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