| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Introduction: Upon Further Reflection / Clare L. Boulanger -- chapter 2 America--The View from across the (Reflecting) Pond / Clare L. Boulanger -- part Ecology/Economy -- chapter 3 Mickey, Nicky, and Barbie: Kindiferculture in America / Richard H. Robbins -- chapter 4 Consuming Ourselves to Death / Richard Wilk -- chapter 5 The Button: Not a Simple Notion / Paul Grebinger -- chapter 6 Safety and Health in the 2Safer and Healthier3 Agriculture / Brandi Janssen -- part Family Life and Leisure -- chapter 7 Chauffeuring and Commuting: A Story of Work, Family, Class, and Community / Lara Descartes -- chapter 8 Military Families: The Long Journey Home / Sarah Hautzinger -- chapter 9 Every Time We Type Goodbye: Heartbreak American-Style / Ilana Gershon -- chapter 10 Striptease, Leisure, and Labor in the Midwestern United States / Beth Hartman -- part Class and Power -- chapter 11 Talk of 2Broken Bordifers3 and Stone Walls: Anti-immigrant Discourse and Legislation from California to South Carolina -- chapter 12 Gendifer, Race, and Class in America: Home in New Haven / Micaela di Leonardo -- chapter 13 Welcome to an East Harlem Shooting Gallery / Philippe Bourgois -- part Ritual and Religion -- chapter 14 A Pilgrimage to the Past: Civil War Reenactors at Gettysburg / Matthew H. Amster -- chapter 15 Memories of Burning Man / S. Megan Heller -- chapter 16 When Worlds Collude: Groundhog Phil and the Super Bowl Meet on Candlemas / Robert Myers -- chapter 17 Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary American Christianity / Tanya M. Luhrmann -- part Ideology -- chapter 18 Little Boys Writ Big: Gendifer, Economy, and The Big Bang Theory / Clare L. Boulanger -- chapter 19 Warmaking as the American Way of Life / Catherine Lutz -- chapter 20 American Cultural Denial: The CATs' Compass / E.L. Cerroni-Long -- chapter 21 Living Up to Our Words / Paul Durrenberger |
| Summary |
"Anthropologists travel back in time and across the globe to understand human culture?but, surprise, there is culture right here in the United States. This second edition of the best-selling textbook and anthology, Reflecting on America, again focuses on how we can recognize the common cultural thread running through diverse American phenomena?from heroin addiction and Big Business?s efforts to shape the identities of children, to Civil War reenactments and the popularity of burlesque in the Midwest. In addition, this second edition includes chapters written especially for this volume on striptease, Burning Man, The Big Bang Theory TV show, and Groundhog Phil. Written throughout with verve and quirky humor, offering?Questions for discussion? after every article, this book is perfect for undergraduate classes in anthropology and American studies. Drawing together twenty-two scholars with expertise in anthropological ideas about culture, Reflecting on America examines what it means to be American."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- United States -- History
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Anthropology -- United States -- Philosophy
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Ethnology -- United States -- Philosophy
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Anthropology.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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Civilization.
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Ethnic relations.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139945
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Boulanger, Clare L
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| ISBN |
9781315089041 |
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1315089041 |
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9781351551922 |
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1351551922 |
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