Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Mirror for Humanity is a brief introduction to sociocultural  anthropology, also covering linguistic and applied anthropology.  Its  shorter length increases the instructor’s options for assigning  additional reading―case studies, readers, and other supplements―within a  one semester course. Mirror For Humanity can also work well in a  quarter system, for which traditional texts may be too long. While  presenting cultural anthropology’s core concepts and topics, Mirror also  aims to demonstrate anthropology’s relevance to the 21st-century world  we inhabit. The text aims to instill an appreciation of cultural  diversity, of cultural anthropology as a field, and of how an  anthropological approach can build on, and help make sense of, the  experience that students bring to the classroom.