Provide a dialogue in your classroom with CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A PROBLEM-BASED APPROACH, 7th Edition. Using a hands-on, participatory, active-learning approach that encourages critical thinking and discussion, this leading text introduces key research problems studied by anthropologists. Within the book's engaging narrative, authors Richard Robbins and Rachel Dowty teach students to analyze their own culture as a basis for understanding the cultures of others. The approach is intended to appeal to the learning styles of a diverse student population. Presentations are organized around research problems rather than topics, creating a natural, integrated discussion of traditional concerns, such as kinship, caste, gender roles, and religion. Students explore these subjects within the context of meaningful questions. The text's brief length and manageable cost provide the flexibility to add original research or ethnographies to enrich students' exposure to anthropology.

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Culture and Meaning.
2. The Meaning of Progress and Development.
3. Debt, Neoliberalism and the Nation-State.
4. The Social and Cultural Construction of Reality.
5. Patterns of Family Relations.
6. The Cultural Construction of Identity.
7. The Cultural Construction of Social Hierarchy.
8. The Cultural Construction of Violent Conflict.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.

Provide a dialogue in your classroom with CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A PROBLEM-BASED APPROACH, 7th Edition. Using a hands-on, participatory, active-learning approach that encourages critical thinking and discussion, this leading text introduces key research problems studied by anthropologists. Within the book's engaging narrative, authors Richard Robbins and Rachel Dowty teach students to analyze their own culture as a basis for understanding the cultures of others. The approach is intended to appeal to the learning styles of a diverse student population. Presentations are organized around research problems rather than topics, creating a natural, integrated discussion of traditional concerns, such as kinship, caste, gender roles, and religion. Students explore these subjects within the context of meaningful questions. The text's brief length and manageable cost provide the flexibility to add original research or ethnographies to enrich students' exposure to anthropology. An extended discussion of money and its mode of creation. A new section on the impact of inequality on health and well-being. Additional insights into the role of culture on theories of reproduction. Chapter 3 on globalization, neoliberalism, and the nation-state examines the pros and cons of the modern economy. It includes an extended discussion of debt and the manner of money creation. Relevant and updated coverage discusses culture change among indigenous peoples of North America and the adaptations to cultural devastation. Brief numbered exercises are found throughout each chapter and require students to apply the concepts covered. These exercises can lead to classroom discussions, critical-thinking assignments, or group work. Key research problems on culture and meaning, the idea of progress, globalization, neoliberalism, the social and cultural construction of reality, family relations, identity, social hierarchy, and conflict are discussed using a participatory, active-learning approach. Numerous comparisons of world cultures with American culture encourage students to recognize their own cultural perspectives.