Home » Park Introducing Anthropology 5th Edition. Update: This post from was a review of the four-fields textbook Park Introducing Anthropology 5th edition. The textbook seems to have emerged in a 6th edition from , which is now too dated for most classes.
For a more current approach, I use Anthropology: What does it mean to be human? I want to like Park Introducing Anthropology. It is short, especially for a comprehensive four-field textbook, although it has become more expensive for what it offers. It does not divide anthropology by sub-field, but integrates the approaches by topic.
Park Introducing Anthropology has a pleasant conversational style, reserving references for the end of each chapter. Michael Alan Park is a biological anthropologist, a nice change from most other textbooks. I have used it in my classes and find many of the phrasings memorable. For some primates and humans, Park allows culture to modify genetic programming.
In contrast, Living Anthropologically challenges this approach, and is a counterpoint to Park Introducing Anthropology. Park Introducing Anthropology seems oddly not updated or detailed in the areas which should be strengths: human evolution, race, primatology, forensic anthropology. The fifth edition has hardly changed: the chapters, stories, pictures, and phrasings are all very familiar from when I taught the second edition.
There are some updates in the references, but it does not seem Park Introducing Anthropology uses those references to update thinking or presentation.
There seems to be little reason to have come out with a edition, as the material is the same and the updates could be gleaned from glancing at peer-reviewed journals. Many anthropologists will find the biological emphasis too limiting, as at times Park portrays culture as an adaptation on top of biology. Saves a fuller discussion for pp. Good explanation of why evolution is not automatically increasing complexity No mention of niche construction or newer ideas in evolutionary theory.
Park Introducing Anthropology portrays organisms adapting to a specific environment, while noting the environment is always changing and that extinction is the norm, not the exception Almost no discussion of economic-political inequalities in the U. Almost no discussion of inequality in the entire textbook, except a small section on social stratification Boas efforts to fight racial classification mentioned No reference to immigrant skull studies or craniometrics.
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