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Elst, Dirk Hendrik van der was born on June 15, 1933 in Dordrecht, South Holland. Arrived in the United States, 1948.
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This creatively written introductory work is full of insights about how humanity’s defining adaptation has evolved and functions. What makes van der Elst’s approach uniquely engaging is his focus on the implications of technology, the ways humans organize themselves, and value assumptions for individuals’ life chances and choices. He confronts readers with the need to question their enculturated biases, instills appreciation of the origins of culture in biology and language, and explains such topics as the varieties of family and marriage types and the rise of inequality. Extending the thrust of the popular first edition, this totally revised second edition includes: 1) highlighted, entertaining vignettes that serve as germane examples; 2) an expanded treatment of language; 3) end-of-chapter questions for reflection and discussion; and 4) a new chapter that demystifies kinship nomenclature. (Not-for-sale instructor resource material available to college and university faculty only; contact the publisher directly.)
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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9781577662693
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Culture as Given, Culture as Choice explains how humanity's defining adaptation originated and functions. Its straightforward presentation and compelling examples show how culture affects your lifestyle and your life chances. By making you aware of your own assumptions and biases, this highly readable book expands your understanding and options about such phenomena as inequality, science, culture, change, and value systems as it helps you prepare for the future.
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Giving readers the capacity to include ethnography in their own experience! Asking and Listening is the first book to trace the changing ways in which human beings have learned to look at "the Others Beyond the Gate" with their strange languages and stranger customs. Not a history of ethnography so much as a chronicle of its uses and potentials, Asking and Listening examines the premises of ethnography and concerns itself with a wide range of issues such as ethnocentrism and the morass of cultural relativism, the cultures of corporations, and the meaning of ethnography for government policy. It ends with an examination of the problems in charting our tomorrows: ethnography in the information age, and for the future. Through its pragmatic analysis of cultures as storehouses of alternatives in the way universal problems can and have been approached, Asking and Listening offers readers not merely the opportunity to make sense of descriptions of other peoples' lifeways, but makes such ethnographic knowledge immediately useful in their own lives and choices and career plans. Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Anderson, Around the World in 30 Years: Life as a Cultural Anthropologist (ISBN 9781577660576); Angrosino, Projects in Ethnographic Research (ISBN 9781577663690); DeVita, Stumbling Toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work (ISBN 9781577661252); Garbarino, Sociocultural Theory in Anthropology: A Short History (ISBN 9780881330564); Gardner-Hoffman, Dispatches from the Field: Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World (ISBN 9781577664512); Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea, Enhanced Edition (ISBN: 9781478602095); and van der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577662693).
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cultural anthropologist educator
Elst, Dirk Hendrik van der was born on June 15, 1933 in Dordrecht, South Holland. Arrived in the United States, 1948.
Bachelor, University Utah, 1960. Master of Arts, University Utah, 1961. Master of Arts, Northwestern University, 1962.
Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1970.
Research assistant, lecturer University Nevada, Reno, 1964-1965. Lecturer Marietta (Ohio) College, 1965-1969. Assistant professor anthropology California State University, Fresno, 1969, associate professor anthropology, 1972, professor anthropology, 1975, chairman anthropology, 1980-1990, professor emeritus, since 1993.
Fieldwork among the Kwinti of Suriname, 1972, 73, 75.
(Giving readers the capacity to include ethnography in the...)
(This creatively written introductory work is full of insi...)
(Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable term...)
(Culture as Given, Culture as Choice explains how humanity...)
Corporal United States Army, 1952-1955.
Son of Dingeman (Dick) and Clasina V. Married JoAnne L. Kipps, June 20, 1981. Children: Darren Paul, Bram Adam.