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This book,which draws directly on the highly regarded "adaptive patterns" section of Bates/Plog's Cultural Anthropology,will focus on ethnographic case studies and discussion relating to distinctive forms of human food procurement: hunting and gathering,horticulture or low energy farming,pastoralism,intensive agriculture,and industrial society. Students are introduced to basic concepts and methods in anthropology in the course of reading about particular people and places. The case study material is lively,timely and jargon-free; the discussion accompanying it draws attention to important issues in anthropology,including short and long term processes of change. The book will be used by instructors who wish to introduce substantial case material to their students without requiring them to purchase a large number of books. It can be used alone or in conjunction with any textbook other than Bates and Plog.