Introductory Readings in Anthropology - Tapa blanda

The reader contains four sections: the first looks at the body and how it is interpreted in anthropology; at ways of thinking and communicating; at how social relations are organised; and at ways of engaging with nature, the environment and human-made objects. The second section illustrates anthropologists' ideas about personhood as socially constituted, and ways of defining social boundaries and groups. The third studies the themes of globalisation (local and global processes); and the fourth the practice of anthropology, including anthropological ethics, methods and investigations.

Hilary Callan was Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 2000-2010. She is a member of the Institute's Committee on Anthropology in Secondary and Further Education; and is Editor-in-Chief of a forthcoming International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Brian Street is Emeritus Professor of Language in Education at King's College, London University and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He has a commitment to linking ethnographic-style research on the cultural dimension of language and literacy with contemporary practice in education and in development. He is currently a Vice President of the RAI Council and is Chair of the RAI Education Committee. Simon Underdown is a biological anthropologist specialising in human evolution. He is Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, and a member of the Council and Education Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written numerous articles on human evolution for the UK's national press.