In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular  Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to  incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and  Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural  anthropology that is even more accessible to students.   

• Revised and enhanced new edition that incorporates additional  material and classroom feedback
•  Accessible to a wider range of students and educational  settings
•  Provides a refreshing alternative to traditional textbooks by  challenging students to think in new ways and to apply  ideas  of culture to their own lives
•  Focuses on the ways that humans orient themselves, e.g., in  space and time, according to language, food, the body, and the  symbols provided by public myth and ritual
• Includes chapters that frame the central issues and provide  examples from a range of cultures, with selected readings,  additional suggested readings, and student exercises