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5/19/03

NEW TEXT BY SLU ANTHROPOLOGY PROF LOOKS AT 'FIVE KEY CONCEPTS'

CANTON - A new anthropology textbook by St. Lawrence University 
Professor of Anthropology Richard J. Perry examines the five "key 
concepts" that form the basis of study in the discipline.
	Five Key Concepts in Anthropological Thinking was recently 
published by Prentice Hall and is being used as a textbook for 
anthropology courses at colleges and universities across the 
country. Rather than approaching topics from the relative views 
of individual theorists, the book instead discusses the concepts 
of evolution, culture, structure, function and relativism. 
Publishers describe it as "A thought-provoking reference for 
anyone interested in learning about anthropology."
	Perry is the author of three other books, Western Apache 
Heritage: People of the Mountain Corridor (1991), Apache 
Reservation: Indigenous Peoples and the American State (1993) and 
From Time Immemorial: Indigenous Peoples and State Systems (1997), 
all from the University of Texas Press.
	A graduate of Harvard University, with a master's degree 
and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, Perry joined the faculty at 
St. Lawrence in 1971. He has been a co-director of the University's 
program of study in Kenya, and recently returned from a research 
trip to Australia for his next project, which will address the 
concepts and attribution of human differences cross-culturally. 
 
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