This is arguably the most student-friendly introductory anthropology text on the market. For a freshman student taking a required social science elective, a chapter on "Kinship Charts" is often alienating. However, a chapter on "Why do we prohibit incest?" (using kinship to solve the problem) is immediately engaging. Robbins succeeds in making anthropology feel urgent and applicable to real life.
Robbins’ problem-based approach organizes anthropology around contemporary issues (e.g., inequality, globalization, culture change). A useful report would likely include:
Assistance with a specific related to the problem-based chapters in the text?
Examples of how anthropological concepts apply to specific career paths.