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This authoritative guide offers readers a comprehensive look into the world of anthropology and its related sciences. The book covers the essential areas of the field, including its history. The major branches of the field are also discussed, including cultural and social anthropology as well as archaeology. It also explores the study of the discipline around the world through urban, medical, and applied anthropology. This is a perfect resource for anyone interested in world cultures and the history of different peoples.

What is anthropology? -- Research methods in anthropology -- Genetics and evolution -- Human variation and adaptation -- Primates: past and present -- The first hominins -- The origins of culture and the emergence of homo -- The emergence of homo sapiens -- The upper Paleolithic world -- Origins of food production and settled life -- Origins of cities and states -- Culture and culture change -- Culture and the individual -- Communication and language -- Getting food -- Economic systems -- Social stratification: class, ethnicity, and racism -- Sex and gender -- Marriage and the family -- Marital residence and kinship -- Associations and interest groups -- Political life: social order and disorder -- Religion and magic -- The arts -- Health and illness -- Practicing and applying anthropology

The Kant Yearbook is an international journal that publishes articles, historical or systematic, on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. It is the Kant Yearbook´s goal to intensify innovative research on Kant on the international scale. Articles are double-blind peer reviewed by an internationally renowned editorial board. Each issue is dedicated to a specific topic announced through a call for papers. The third issue´s topic is "Anthropology".

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Welcome Address to the Pre-Congress Conference on Medical Anthropology -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: NATIVE CULTURAL ASPECTS OF HEALING -- Introduction -- Witchcraft, the Shaman, and Active Pharmacopoeia -- The Relevance of African Traditional Medicine in Modern Medical Training and Practice -- Body and Spirit among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil -- Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes -- Social Basis of Illness: A Search for Therapeutic Meaning -- Snakebite Cure among the Rama Indians of Nicaragua -- The Traditional Folk Medicine of Taos, New Mexico -- Different Approaches to Medicine among Different People -- Post-Partum Salt Packing and Other Medical Practices: Oman, South Arabia -- SECTION TWO: SPECIFIC SUBJECT PAPERS -- Introduction -- The Incidence of Mental Illness among Italians in an English-Canadian City -- Warning: The Milk in This Package May Be Lethal for Your Infant -- Prehistoric Pictography in North America of Medical Significance -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Midwifery -- Cerro Sechin: Medical Anthropology's Inauguration in Peru? -- The Use of Argillaceous Earth as Medicament -- SECTION THREE: INTERACTION OF TRADITIONAL AND WESTERN MEDICAL PRACTICES -- Introduction -- Human Factors in the Regulation of Parasitic Infections: Cultural Ecology of Hookworm Populations in Rural West Bengal -- Analysis of Incidence of Excessive Alcohol Intake by the Indian Population in Montana -- Witchcraft: An Allegory? -- The Process of Medical Change in a Highland Guatemalan Town -- Endemic Goiter, Salt, and Local Customs in Central America: Prevention of a Preventable Disease -- Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru -- A Transubstantiated Health Clinic in Nepal: A Model for the Future.