Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology, first Canadian edition is a clearly written, concise cultural anthropology text with a distinctive Canadian perspective as it provides students with the key ideas, terms, and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology. This text is designed for courses that make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings while asserting current examples and covering the works of diverse scholars in Canada and abroad. Not a standard textbook, Core Concepts offers an elaborated discussion in accessible prose that can be used flexible as a core text or a supporting supplement.

Discussing the use of engaged anthropology in today's world, this text explores how decolonizing anthropology approaches colonialism and its effects and ramification on Indigenous peoples of Canada, part of anthropology's origins, and Canadian identity. of the key terms and concepts that anthropologists use in their work. The text also includes coverage of perspectives reflecting Canada's diversity, with particular focus on research conducted among Indigenous communities, Anthropocene. and the ethical and collaborative research practices students need to mark their path forward in their studies. The book prepares students to read ethnographies more effectively and with better understanding of the history and origins of those terms and concepts.

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Robert H. Lavenda is an emeritus professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University.

Emily A. Schultz is a professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University.

Michel Bouchard is a professor and former chair in the Anthropology department at the University of Northern British Columbia. His current research focuses on the history of North American Métis and French-Canadian communities in Ontario, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories. This project builds on his past research, which examined issues of nationhood among Russian-speakers in Estonia as well as that of the Komi and other ethnonational populations in Russia. He teaches a wide range of cultural anthropology courses, including the introductory course, and organizes an annual Circumpolar Ethnographic Field School.