Carol Delaney & Deborah Kaspin 
Investigating Culture [EPUB ebook] 
An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular
Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to
incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and
Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural
anthropology that is even more accessible to students.

* Revised and enhanced new edition that incorporates additional
material and classroom feedback

* Accessible to a wider range of students and educational
settings

* Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by
challenging students to think in new ways and to apply ideas
of culture to their own lives

* Focuses on the ways that humans orient themselves, e.g., in
space and time, according to language, food, the body, and the
symbols provided by public myth and ritual

* Includes chapters that frame the central issues and provide
examples from a range of cultures, with selected readings,
additional suggested readings, and student exercises

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Carol Delaney is Associate Professor Emerita of Cultural and
Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is author of The
Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village
Society (1991) and Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of
Biblical Myth (1998), and is co-editor of Naturalizing
Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis (1995, with Sylvia
Yanagisako).



Deborah Kaspin is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at
Rhode Island College and has taught at University of Virginia, Yale
University, Wheaton College, and Rhode Island College.