What should be included in an introductory anthropology textbook
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2014 · Education
Luis A. Vivanco, co-author of Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity, discusses his expectations of what an introductory anthropology textbook should cover and his decision to divide the chapter on human-nature relations. http://www.oxfordpresents.com/ms/welsch/ Luis A. Vivanco (Ph.D. Princeton University), Associate Professor of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Global Studies Program at the University of Vermont, is co-author of Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity, coming November 2014. He teaches many undergraduate courses, including Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Media, Environmental Anthropology, Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Anthropology of Mobility. In addition to that, he is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, among them two Fulbright awards, a National Endowment for the Humanities scholarship, and Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research fieldwork support. He has also won the University of Vermont’s highest teaching honor, the Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award, as well as the university’s Outstanding Service-Learning award. © Oxford University Press
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