Table 1 Information about cultural anthropology textbooks included in the sample
From: Evolution and University-level Anthropology Textbooks: The “Missing Link”?
ID | Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Year | Glossary | Summary | Text box | In-text |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bates and Franklin | Cultural Anthropology | Pearson/Allyn and Bacon | 2003 | The process by which small but cumulative changes in the species can, over time, lead to its transformation; may be divided into two categories: physical evolution (adaptive changes in biological make up) and cultural evolution (adaptive changes in thought and behavior) | Explains the development of all species as the outcome of adaptation to environmental circumstances through the process of natural selection | A shared and ongoing change | |
2 | Ferraro | Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective | Thomson/Wadsworth | 2006 | ||||
3 | Haines | Cultural Anthropology: Adaptations, Structures, and Meanings | Pearson/Prentice Hall | 2005 | A view that, over time, human and other species change based on the differential advantages of new characteristics or behavior | |||
4 | Harris and Johnson | Cultural Anthropology | Pearson/Allyn and Bacon | 2007 | ||||
5 | Haviland, Prins, Walrath, and McBride | Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge | Thomson/Wadsworth | 2008 | Changes in the genetic makeup of a population over generations | Changes in the genetic makeup of a population over generations | Changes in the genetic makeup of a population over generations | |
6 | Kottak | Cultural Anthropology | McGraw Hill | 2008 | Belief that species arose from others through a long and gradual process of transformation, or descent with modification | Belief that species arose from others through a long and gradual process of transformation, or descent with modification | Belief that species arose from others through a long and gradual process of transformation, or descent with modification | |
7 | Kottak | Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Anthropology | McGraw Hill | 2007 | Descent with modification; change in form over generations. | species arose from others through a long and gradual process oftransformation, or descent with modification. | ||
8 | Kottak | Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity | McGraw Hill | 2008 | Belief that species arose from others through a long and gradual process of transformation, or descent with modification | Belief that species arose from others through a long and gradual process of transformation, or descent with modification | Belief that species arose from others through a long and gradual process of transformation, or descent with modification | |
9 | Kottak | Mirror for Humanity | McGraw Hill | 2008 | ||||
10 | Lavenda and Schultz | Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology | McGraw Hill | 2007 | ||||
11 | Lenkeit | Introducing Cultural Anthropology | McGraw Hill | 2007 | A model for the development of society that delineates a sequence of cultural change over time | Models a delineate sequence of culture change over time and the processes at work in this change | ||
12 | Miller | Cultural Anthropology | Pearson | 2007 | Says that early forms evolve into later forms through the process of natural selection, whereby the most biologically fit organisms survive to reproduce while those that are less fit die out | |||
13 | Miller | Anthropology | Pearson | 2008 | Inherited and accumulated change in the characteristics of species, population, and culture | Inherited and accumulated change in the characteristics of species, population, and culture | The term refers to the process of gradual and cumulative change in the characteristics of species, populations, and culture | |
14 | Nanda and Warms | Cultural Anthropology | Thompson/Wadsworth | 2007 | The change in the properties of populations of organisms that occur over time | The change in the properties of populations of organisms that occur over time | The way we understand the biological history of humanity | |
15 | Omohundro | Thinking Like an Anthropologist: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | McGraw Hill | 2008 | ||||
16 | Peoples and Bailey | Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | Thompson/Wadsworth | 2006 | ||||
17 | Salzman and Rice | Thinking Anthropo-logically | Pearson/Prentice Hall | 2008 | Darwin defined it as “descent with modification”; a more modern definition might claim it is the process by which one group/species of plant or animal changes over time to become a different/new population | |||
18 | Shultz and Lavenda | Cultural Anthropology: Perspective on the Human Condition | Oxford University Press | 2005 | Change over time. Biological evolution which concerns the resources for human development provided by our genes and other elements that make up our physical bodies. Cultural evolution which concerns the beliefs and behaviors we incorporate into human development through the experiences of teaching and learning |