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Essential tools for living in a multicultural and global age.

The most successful new textbook in a generation, Ken Guest’s text shows students that now, more than ever, global forces affect local culture. Students learn that the tools of cultural anthropology are relevant to their life in our globalized world. The NEW InQuizitive course helps students focus their reading, master the basics, and come to class prepared.
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    November 27, 2017
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Kenneth J. Guest is a professor at Baruch College and the author of God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York’s Evolving Immigrant Community (2003). His research focuses on China, New York City, immigration, religion, and transnationalism. He has conducted fieldwork in China and the United States.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Second edition (November 27, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393624617
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393624618
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.58 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
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Ken Guest is Professor of Anthropology at Baruch College, CUNY and author of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age; Essentials of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age; Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Journal; Cultural Anthropology: A Reader for a Global Age; and God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Religious Community, along with many other articles and chapters in scholarly and popular publications. His research focuses on immigration, religion, globalization, ethnicity, entrepreneurship, China and New York's Chinatown and has been featured in The New York Times, National Public Radio, the BBC and other media venues.

Professor Guest's research in China and the United States traces the immigrant journeys of recent Chinese immigrants from Fuzhou, southeast China, who, drawn by jobs in restaurant, construction and garment trades and facilitated by a vast human smuggling network, have revitalized New York's Chinatown. His writing explores the role of Fuzhounese religious communities in China and the United States; the religious revival sweeping China's coastal regions; the Fuzhounese role in the rapidly expanding U.S. network of all you can eat buffets and take-out restaurants; and the higher education experiences of the Fuzhounese second generation.

A native of Florida, Professor Guest studied Chinese at Beijing University and Middlebury College. He received his B.A. from Columbia University (East Asian Languages and Cultures), an M.A. from Union Theological Seminary (Religious Studies) and the M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center (Anthropology)

To learn more, visit his faculty homepage: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/anthropology/kguest.htm

Follow him on Twitter @kenguestanthro

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What’s New in the Second Edition

Reflecting the dynamic nature of cultural anthropology, this new, second edition of Essentials of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age includes revisions and updates to every chapter that introduce cutting edge developments in the discipline, new theoretical frameworks, and new ethnographies. New chapter openers and examples continue the book’s pedagogical approach to engage students in thinking like an anthropologist and provide them with an anthropological toolkit for analyzing and engaging the world around them.

NEW CHAPTER ON ART AND MEDIA A new chapter on art and media explores the unique approach anthropologists take to the study of art, the many ways in which art reflects and transforms culture, and the ways in which globalization and new forms of media are transforming art and its dissemination. Through ethnographies of Brazil, west Africa, the Middle East, and the United States, the chapter explores how art is embedded in communities, how it connects to social norms and values, as well as economic and political systems and events.

NEW CHAPTER OPENING STORIES ON FAMILIAR TOPICS AND CURRENT EVENTS Ferguson, the Flint water crisis, a Happy Meal, Bangladesh’s Sundarban tidal forest, women Army Rangers, protesting sexual violence on campus, football concussions, Pope Francis and the television show Transparent: Nine new chapter openers challenge students to ask big questions and apply their anthropological toolkit to the real world challenges of today.

NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES ADDED THROUGHOUT THE TEXT Ethnographies are at the heart of anthropological inquiry. This edition introduces new ethnographies set in places including: Bolivia, Brazil, Denmark and Sweden, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Japan, Taiwan, the United States, and Tanzania.

NEW COVERAGE OF ENGAGING, CUTTING-EDGE TOPICS

• The environment and climate change. Humans are reshaping the natural environment, leading scholars to rename the current geological period the Anthropocene. The book’s focus on the environment begins in chapter one with a new section on the Anthropocene, and ethnographies and explorations of current issues and events throughout the book, including: A Coca-Cola bottling factory in India; water crises in Flint, Michigan and Mumbai, India; environment and health disparities in Harlem; and climate activists in Bangladesh, Paris, and U.S. college campuses.
• The anthropology of the body. Cross-cultural anthropological studies have challenged the notion of the body as isolated, natural, and universal and revealed a more complex picture of human bodies as products of specific environments, cultural experiences, and historical contexts. In addition to discussion of health and illness, the second edition adds new material on sickness.
• Disabilities. Anthropology’s increasing attention to the body has been accompanied by a recent expansion of work on issues of disability. Anthropologists have begun to bring their distinctive ethnographic methods to the task of understanding the embodied experiences of people with impairments and analyzing those experiences within broader forms of social inequality. New content has been added in chapters on Health, Illness, and the Body and Sexuality.
• The anthropology of food. Always central to anthropological studies, food has received increased attention in recent years. The anthropology of food is explored throughout the book, including food production; food and colonialism; religious symbolism of food; water and inequality in Flint, Michigan and Mumbai, India; soda bottling; the social life of a chocolate bar; the global trade in tuna; food and ethnic identity; migration of Chinese restaurant workers; and a new chapter opener on the Happy Meal.
• Anthropology’s biocultural perspective. Essentials of Cultural Anthropology presents the latest thinking on human evolution, development, and adaptation as an ongoing biocultural process in which biology, culture, and the environment are deeply intertwined

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