NEW FEATURES OF THE FOURTH EDITION

All chapters contain several maps. Each map is carefully designed to enhance the text material and all are clearly labeled. Cross-references throughout the book to maps located elsewhere encourage students to flip forward and backward in the book. This process facilitates review and helps readers make connections across chapters about the cultural groups and topics discussed

Each chapter has more photographs than the previous edition. They are selected to reinforce the material being discussed or take it in a new direction. Captions for all photographs are clear and concise.

All chapters include a one-page profile of a cultural group accompanied by a mini-panorama of two photographs and a map with captions. The summaries are brief, providing an enticing glimpse into the culture. At the end of each Ethnographic Profile, a list of resources (readings, videos, and websites) offers avenues for those who want to learn more. A good class assignment would be for students to do some independent research on one or more of the cultures in the Ethnographic Profile, or they might choose a different culture and compose their own Ethnographic Profile, with photographs (from Google.images, for example) and a map. For example:

• Chapter 1: “San Peoples of Southern Africa”
• Chapter 4: “The Kwakwaka’wakw of British Columbia”
• Chapter 5:“The Old Order Amish of the United States and Canada”

Definitions for the Key Concepts are positioned on the bottom of the left page on the spread where the concept is first mentioned and defined. Key Concepts are also alphabetized in the Key Concepts list at the end of the chapter with page numbers included for easy cross-referencing.

Another new feature, Thinking Outside the Box, prompts readers to relate an issue to their own cultural experiences or suggests ideas for further research. Each chapter contains three or four of these features. For example:

• Chapter 5: In your family, is there a preference about the desired numb er of sons and daughters? Is there a preference for their birth order?

Each of the book’s five parts opens with a profile of an applied anthropologist, someone who uses his or her anthropology training in non-academic settings. Profiles include a business anthropologist, a medical anthropologist, a forensic anthropologist, a development anthropologist, and a federal relations anthropologist.