Anthropology, Marriage, Personality and culture, Religion and culture, Families, Culture, Human beings, Kinship 

The four fields Introduces the central concepts, concerns, and research methods of cultural anthropology. It takes a cross-cultural approach to diverse subject areas, including subsistence patterns, political organization, the family, social organization, economics, kinship, language, the arts and religion. 

Material Type: Video recording
Document Type: Visual material
OCLC Number: 244489818
Notes: A companion to the text: Anthropology: the human challenge; Haviland, et. al; published by Wadsworth.
28 lessons.
Credits: Series producer, Laurie R. Melby ; producer-director, Harry T. Hughes ; executive producers, Dan Jones, Laurie Melby.
Description: 2 videodiscs (approximately 840 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Details: DVD.
Contents: Disc 1: Essence of anthropology --
Biology & evolution --
The living primates --
Primate behavior --
Methods of paleoanthropology --
Macroevolution --
The first bipeds --
A new hominin --
Premodern humans --
Homo sapiens & the upper paleolithic --
Food domestication & the emergence of cities --
Patterns of variation --
Patterns of adaptation --
Characteristics of culture. Disc 2: Communication & culture --
Social identity, personality & gender --
Subsistence systems --
Economic systems --
Sex & marriage --
Marriage & family --
Kinship & descent --
Grouping by gender, age, common interest & class --
Politics, power & violence --
Religion & spirituality --
The arts --
Processes of change --
Global challenges & anthropology --
Applied anthropology.
Other Titles: First bipeds.
New hominin.
Homo sapiens and the upper paleolithic.
Responsibility: Coast Learning Systems.