Applying cultural anthropology : an introductory reader
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Applying cultural anthropology : an introductory reader
McGraw-Hill, c2003
6th ed
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Locator map of peoples and places discussed on inside front and back covers
Includes bibliographical references and index
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This supplementary reader is composed of both classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the significant contributions that cultural anthropologists make; the emphasis is on the applicability of cultural anthropology to understanding and improving the present day human condition.
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* Indicates a selection new to this edition. CULTURE AND FIELDWORK1. Body Ritual Among Nacirema - Horace Miner,19562. *Slumber's Unexplored Landscape - Bruce Bower, 19993. Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS - Claire E. Sterk, 20004. Crack in Spanish Harlem - Philippe Bourgois, 19895. Profile of an Anthropologist -- Corporate Anthropologists - Jennifer J. Laabs, 1992CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION6. Shakespeare in the Bush - Laura Bohannan, 19667. *To Give Up on Words: Silence in Western Apache Culture Keith Basso, 19708. A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication - Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker -19829. Suite for Ebony and Phonics - John R. Rickford, 1997CULTURE AND FOOD10. Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health - Elizabeth D. Whitaker, 199811. Chinese Table Manners: You are How You Eat - Eugene Cooper, 198612. Culture and the Evolution of Obesity - Peter J. Brown, 1991CULTURE AND AGRICULTURE13. The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race - Jared Diamond, 198714. The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution - Gerald F. Murray, 198715. Two Rights Make a Wrong: Indigenous Peoples Versus Environmental Protection Agencies - Richard Reed, 2000RACE AND ETHNICITY16. Race without Color - Jared Diamond, 199417. Official Statement on "Race" - American Anthropological Association, 199718. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh, 198819. Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education - Deborah Freedman Lustig, 1997ECONOMY AND BUSINESS20. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari - Richard Borshay Lee, 196921. Strings Attached - Lee Cronk,198922. Using Cultural Skills for Cooperative Advantage in Japan Richard H. Reeves-Ellington - 199323. Family Planning Outreach and Credit Programs in Rural Bangladesh - Sidney Ruth Schuler and Syed M. Hashemi, 199524. *Profile - Anthropology in the Technology Industry - Greg Guest, 2001GENDER AND SOCIALIZATION25. Society and Sex Roles - Ernestine Friedl, 197826. *Our Babies, Our Selves - Meredith F. Small, 199727. New Women of The Ice Age - Heather Pringle, 199828. Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man's Profession - Joan Cassell, 1997MARRIAGE AND GENDER RELATIONS29. When Brothers Share a Wife - Melvyn C. Goldstein, 198730. African Polygyny: Family Values and Contemporary Changes - Philip L. Kilbride, 199631. Law, Custom, and Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India - John van Willigen and V. C. Channa, 1991POLITICS, LAW AND WARFARE 32. PROFILE of an Anthropologist: Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service - Jeffery L. MacDonald, 199633. The Kpelle Moot - James L. Gibbs Jr., 196334. Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands - Aaron Podolefsky, 1984RELIGION, RITUAL AND CURING35. *The Power of Islam. - Lincoln Keiser, 199136. Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies - Wade Davis, 198537. Aids as Human Suffering - Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman, 1989SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE38. *Circumcision, Pluralism, and Dilemmas of Cultural Relativism - Corinne A. Kratz, 200239. Advertising and Global Culture - Noreene Janus, 198340. *How Sushi Went Global - Theodore C. Bestor, 200041. The Price of Progress - John H. Bodley, 1990 * Indicates a selection new to this edition.
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