Oxford Very Short Introductions
A colleague of mine finally got sick and tired of lousy anthropology textbooks and did a sweeping review of the available options. She finally decided that Oxford’s “Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192853465/qid=1130009100/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1728795-4172847?v=glance&s=books was the way to go and, having checked out the book, I must concur. It’s a marvel of concision, readability, and thoroughness — [...]