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Cultural Anthropology (6th Edition)

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This was a good book. It sparked my interest in Anthropology and I learned so much from it. The author may be bias in some areas but that contributes to the learning experience. It helped me learn about other countries beliefs and customs.

I am an Anthropology major and was required to take a Cultural Anthropology class for my major. Another Anthropology major took this class with me. By the end of the semester, we were contemplating buring our books because they were completely worthless. This book has a lot of bias to male studies, and male supremecy in general. If you need to know definitions, this is a book for you. There are literally hundreds of definitions in this book, and while many are defined correctly, some are not and show off the biasedness of this book. Overall it was ok, and it made me more aware of different beliefs in Anthropology, but I would not recommend this book to be used as a classroom text in the future.

Cultural materialism, like that of the dialectical, or historical kind, is oversimplifying and has nothing to offer but the most hazy generalities. Yet that is what a modern university education in liberal arts has to offer. Having used this book in a course taken, I came away with a feeling of having learned very little and having been poisoned by much unnecessary cynicism. Ever since, I have never been able to so much as read the paper without some sense of embarrassment at being an American. Then when I would for once work as a temp in the warehouse for the company of this very website, I would see the assumptions of Marx contradicted right in front of my eyes. For as it appeared from casual conversations at breaktime, the workers having been forced by the dialectic of necessity to work long hours with their feet sore from bending, stooping, pushing carts did not wish to strike. Instead each thought, as it were, in terms of exchange of value for value, money, their careers, and climbing the corporate ladder of success, such bourgeois attitudes which even the Clintonians must appeal to in order to get votes, yet it would have disgusted Marx and Lenin would have denounced it as reformism. It is something I have wanted too, yet frustra. Then again, reading Thomas Sowell has recently given me a view of economics, and seemingly of anthropology, that is actually useful; for it has allowed me to feel like I am finally getting the well-rounded education I had missed in school. Thus I learn that the market, through the simple mechanism of price coordination as if by magic, takes care of all the gazillion emic and etic factors which the central planners couldn't possibly imagine, no matter how many fieldworkers they employ. Which must be a sore warning to all interferers and meddlers lest they should think to impose their biased values on the rest of us.