Social and Cultural Anthropology

A Very Short Introduction

By: Peter Just, John Monaghan

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work.

Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropology's most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its doctrine of cultural relativism, and its methodology of fieldwork and ethnography. Drawing on examples from their own fieldwork in Indonesia and Mesoamerica, they examine specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture. Including an assessment of anthropology's present position, and a look forward to its likely future, Social and Cultural Anthropology will make fascinating listening for anyone curious about this social science.

©2000 John Monaghan, Peter Just (P)2021 Tantor

Excellent introduction to the subject

My only complaint is that I wish it were longer.

This paragraph exists only to fill out the fifteen word minimum required by Audible.

Good introduction with a dead voice

The book itself is interesting, a great short introduction book and summaries, yet whoever is reading it did such a bad job, I would rather listen to a machine or ai voice. An academic book doesn’t mean it should be read in cold and aloof and dead way. So bad.

Very Informative!

I like how quickly but vast was the approach to the different topics that make antropology. It has been a good intro for me who is just starting in the discipline of antropology.