Anthropology Made Simple

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ANTHROPOLOGY MADE SIMPLE introduces the reader, with great clarity and comprehensiveness, to the richness

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and fascinating complexity of man in the context of the social and cultural world he has created. Now more than

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ever before is it essential that we come to understand — as fully, as deeply, as sympathetically as possible — the human and social world we live in, the incredible variety of cultures man has fashioned. For never before has it been so urgent that we know the ways and forms of the

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world we live in; and never before has the world been so confusing: even as we look at it, it changes with astonish¬ ing rapidity. We offer this book to the reader who seeks broad and deep insight into the science of Anthropology, into the science of man and his culture. The scope of ANTHROPOLOGY MADE SIMPLE is unusually comprehensive, covering in ample fullness all branches

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of the field: physical, social, and cultural Anthropology. The book ranges in time from the remotest prehistoric beginnings to the present; and in space the world over — from the contemporary United States to primitive, stoneage cultures — probing the relations between man and society, illuminating the interaction between personality and culture. Here, then, is the world we live in.

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ANTHROPOLOGY MADE SIMPLE

ANTHROPOLOGY MADE SIMPLE BY

JOHN LEWIS, B.Sc., Ph.D. Lecturer in Philosophy, Morley College, London, England Lecturer in Anthropology to the Extra-Mural Delegacy of the University of Oxford

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MADE SIMPLE BOOKS DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK 1961