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This concise introduction to anthropology discusses the core areas of the discipline within a unique, integrated biocultural framework.

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• Part 1 Background and Context
• 1 Doing Anthropology: Taking Fingerprints in the High Plains
• In the Field
• The Hutterites Anthropology
• Contemporary Issues: What Responsibilities Does the Anthropologist Have
• When Studying Other Cultures?
• 2 Methods of Inquiry: Anthropology as a Science
• The Scientific Method Belief Systems
• Anthropology as a Science
• Contemporary Issues: Aren't Science and Belief
• Inherently in Conflict with One Another?
• 3 Evolution: Change in Nature and the Nature of Change
• The Evolution of Evolution
• Some Basic Genetics Adaptation
• Descent with Modification
• The Origin of Species
• Contemporary Issues: Is Evolution a Fact, a Theory, or Just a Hypothesis?
• Part 2 The Identity of Our Species
• 4 Our Place in Nature: Humans as Primates
• Naming the Animals Into the Trees
• Contemporary Issues: Should Nonhuman Primates Have Rights?
• 5 Anatomy: The Bipedal Primate
• Out of the Trees
• Around the World
• Contemporary Issues: Have We Found the "Missing Link"?
• 6 Reproduction: The Sexual Primate Sex and Human Evolution
• Vive la Différence
• Sex and Gender
• Sex and Cultural Institutions
• Contemporary Issues: What Causes Differences in Sexual Orientation?
• 7 Learning How To Survive: The Cultural Primate
• The Concept of Culture Brains and Culture
• A Model for the Study of Cultural Systems
• An Anthropological Analysis of the Necktie
• Contemporary Issues: Can Anthropologists Study Their Own Cultures?
• 8 Human Variation: Biological Diversity and Race
• Why Are There No Biological Races within the Human Species?
• What, Then, Are Human Races?
• Race, Racism, and Social Issues
• Contemporary Issues: Are There Racial Differences in Athletic Ability?
• Part 3 Adapting To Our Worlds
• 9 Food: Getting It, Growing It, Eating It, and Passing It
• Around Food and Human Evolution
• Food-Collecting
• Societies Food-Producing
• Societies Which Subsistence Pattern Works Best?
• Some Basic Economics
• Contemporary Issues: Is There a World Population Crisis That Is Putting Pressure on Food and Other Resources?
• 10 Nature of the Group: Arranging Our Families and Organizing Our Societies
• Primate Societies
• Marriage and Family Kinship
• Kinship Terminology
• Organization above the Family Level
• Contemporary Issues: Why Don't Bilateral Societies Have Equality Between the Sexes?
• 11 Material Culture: The Things We Make and the Things We Leave
• Behind Archaeology: Recovering and Interpreting the Cultural Past
• Some Prehistoric High Points
• Contemporary Issues: Who Owns Archaeological Sites and Their Contents?
• 12 Communication: Sharing What We Need to Know Language
• Language and Evolution
• Apes and Language
• Language and Culture
• Contemporary Issues: Are Written Languages More Advanced than Unwritten Ones?
• 13 Maintenance of Order: Making the Worldview
• Real Religion Variation in Religious Systems
• Religion and Culture Law
• Contemporary Issues: How Can We Account for Today's Interest in Witchcraft?
• 14 Culture Change: Theories and Processes
• The Processes of Culture Change
• Theories of Cultural Evolution
• Contemporary Issues: Can Anthropology Be Both Scientific and Humanistic?
• 15 The Evolution of Our Behaviors: Pigs, Wars, Proteins, and Sorcerers Of Their Flesh
• Shall Ye Not Eat Peaceful Warriors and Cannibal Farmers
• Biology and Culture in Interaction
• Contemporary Issues: Are Humans Naturally Violent?
• 16 Anthropology in Today's World: Problems and Contributions
• Change in the Modern World Applying Anthropology
• The Human Species Today
• The Human Species in the Future
• Contemporary Issues: What Kinds of Careers Are There in Anthropology?