The Anthropology Book

Anthropology is the discipline that takes all of human culture as its subject — the study of how human beings live, think, believe, and organise their societies across the full range of cultural diversity that our species has produced. DK’s The Anthropology Book presents the key ideas, the major practitioners, and the most important debates of this discipline in the clear, visual, and intellectually rigorous format of the DK Big Ideas Simply Explained series.

From the founding questions of cultural relativism through the development of social anthropology, feminist anthropology, and the contemporary debates about decolonising the discipline, every major intellectual development receives clear, accessible treatment. Profiles of key thinkers from Malinowski and Lévi-Strauss to Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict illuminate the human beings behind the ideas.

An essential introduction to a discipline fundamental for anyone who wants to understand human cultural diversity. Published by DK.