Applied Anthropology, Ethnology

Cultural Anthropology

Name: Cultural Anthropology
Author: Gary P. Ferraro
ISBN: 9780314915399

by Gary P. Ferraro

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Overview

This mainstream, comprehensive cultural anthropology text takes an applied perspective to the study of society's behavior. Applied anthropology, for most of the last decade, has been a major focus for the beginning cultural course. This best-selling text remains the only mainstream text to be written by an applied anthropologist.

About the Author, Gary P. Ferraro

Gary Ferraro, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, received his BA in history from Hamilton College and his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Swaziland in southern Africa and at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, and has served as a visiting professor of anthropology in the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea Program (1983 and 2003), a floating university that travels around the world. He has conducted research for extended periods of time in Kenya and Swaziland and has traveled widely throughout many other parts of the world. Ferraro has served as a consultant for such organizations as USAID, the Peace Corps, and the World Bank. In addition to publishing in a number of professional journals, he is the author of many books, including THE TWO WORLDS OF KAMAU (1978) THE CULTURAL DIMENSION OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 5E (2006), GLOBAL BRAINS: KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (2002), and CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE (2008).