| Description |
xvi, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface xx -- World Map and Geographical Placement of Readings xx -- One -- Culture and Ethnography xx -- 1 Ethnography and Culture xx -- James P. Spradley -- To discover culture, the ethnographer must learn from the informant as a student. -- 2 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari xx -- Richard Borshay Lee -- The ãgenerousä gift of a Christmas ox involves the anthropologist in a classic case of cross-cultural misunderstanding. -- 3 Shakespeare in the Bush xx -- Laura Bohannan -- Cross-cultural communication breaks down when the anthropologist attempts to translate the meaning of Hamlet to the Tiv. -- 4 Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS xx -- Claire E. Sterk -- Fieldwork among urban prostitutes means doing ethnography under difficult but, in the end, manageable circumstances. -- 5 Nice Girls Donât Talk to Rastas xx -- George Gmelch -- Interaction between a U.S. student and a Rastafarian illustrates the destructive power of na¿ve realism in the fieldwork setting. -- Two -- Language and Communication xx -- 6. Managing Meaning: The Military Name Game xx -- Sarah Boxer -- Public perception can be affected by oneâs choice of words, a fact embraced by the U.S. armed forces as they try to name military operations without offending anyone. -- 7 Conversation Style: Talking on the Job xx -- Deborah Tannen -- On the job, men and women use distinctive conversation styles to ask for help, leading them to evaluate performance and character differently -- 8 Tattoo Talk: ãJuicingä Customers xx -- Jennifer Boehlke -- Tattoo artists use a kind of talk, juicing, to persuade clients to have tattoos, reduce their fear, reinforce their decisions, and spend more money. -- 9 Anthropologists Investigate Communications Technology xx -- Belle Mellor -- Anthropologists study how people use and carry cell phones, the Internet, land lines and other channels of communication. -- Three -- Ecology and Subsistence xxx -- 10 The Hunters: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari -- Richard Borshay Lee xxx -- !Kung and other foragers traditionally worked less and ate better than many other people with more ãadvancedä food producing techniques. Today, however, there survival depends more on drilling wells and keeping cattle than on collecting wild foods. -- 11 Adaptive Failure: Easterâs End xxx -- Jared Diamond -- Polynesian settlers on Easter Island prospered and multiplied until they eventually destroyed their island habitat and, with it, there civilization. Is this a harbinger of things to come for all humankind? -- 12 Forest Development the Indian Way xxx -- Richard K. Reed -- South American governments could learn much about tropical forest development from the Amazonian Indians who live there. -- 13 When the Turtle Collapses [Brought back from from C&C 10e] -- Bernard Nietschmann xxx -- World demand for green sea turtles disrupts the traditional lives of Miskito Indians. -- Four -- Economic Systems xxx -- 14 Reciprocity and the Power of Giving xxx -- Lee Cronk -- Gifts not only function to tie people together, they may also be used to ãflattenä an opponent and control the behavior of others. -- 15 Global Women in the New Economy xxx -- Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild -- Millions of women migrate from poor to wealthy nations serving as nannies, maids, and sex workers. They send money home but find it hard to separate from their countries and families. -- 16 Cocaine and the Economic Deterioration of Bolivia xxx -- Jack Weatherford -- The world market for cocaine robs Bolivian villages of their men and causes problems for health, nutrition, transportation, and family. -- 17 Malawi versus the World Bank xxx -- Sonia Patten -- Malawi governmentâs successful state subsidized fertilizer program challenges the World Bank and IMFâs insistence on market-driven agricultural programs. -- Five -- Kinship and Family xxx -- 18 Motherâs Love: Death without Weeping xxx -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Close mother-child bonds suffer in the presence of high infant mortality in a Brazilian shantytown. -- 19 Family and Kinship in Village India xxx -- David W. McCurdy -- Kinship still organizes the lives of Bhil villagers despite economic opportunities that draw people away from the community and dependence on relatives. -- 20 Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife xxx -- Melvyn C. Goldstein -- By jointly marrying one woman, Tibetan brothers preserve family resources and the ãgood life.ä -- 21 Uterine Families and the Womenâs Community xxx -- Margery Wolf -- To succeed in a traditional patrilineal family, a Chinese woman must create her own informal uterine family inside her husbandâs household. -- Six -- Identity, Roles, and Groups xxx -- 22 Heading Home: Women, Work, and Identity in America xxx -- Dianna Shandy -- Why are young, educated professional women leaving high-paying jobs for a life at home? -- 23 Poverty , Office Work, and the Crack Alternative xxx Philippe Bourgois -- Poor, uneducated Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem feel that the risks they run selling drugs are preferable to the disrespect they encounter as low-wage employees in New Yorkâs financial and service companies. -- 24 Symbolizing Roles: Behind the Veil xxx -- Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea -- The womenâs veil stands for everything from personal protection to female honor in Mediterranean societies. -- 25 Mixed Blood xxx -- Jeffrey M. Fish -- A woman can change her race from black to ãbrunetteä by taking a plane from New York to Brazil. -- Seven -- Law and Politics xxx -- 26 Cross-Cultural Law: The Case of the Gypsy Offender xxx -- Anne Sutherland -- Legal cultures clash when a young Gypsy is convicted of using someone elseâs social security number to apply for a car loan. -- 27 Life without Chiefs xxx -- Marvin Harris -- Small societies based on reciprocal and redistributive economic exchange can do without officials. -- 28 The Founding Indian Fathers xxx -- Jack Weatherford -- Although their contribution goes unrecognized, Indian, especially Iroquoian, political structure served as a model that helped to produce a United States federal government -- 29 The Kindness of Strangers: The U.S. and Iraq xxx -- Robin Fox -- Like missionaries of the past, the U.S. government believes people everywhere crave democracy, even in Iraq where loyalty cleaves to tribes, sects, and ethnic backgrounds, not the state. -- Eight -- Religion, Magic, and World View xx -- 30 Tarakaâs Ghost xxx -- Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed -- A woman relieves her anxiety and gains family support when she is possessed by a friendâs ghost. -- 31 Baseball Magic -- George Gmelch -- American baseball players employ magical practices as they try to deal with the uncertainty of their game. -- 32 Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage xxx -- Jill Dubisch -- An annual ritual motorcycle pilgrimage from Los Angles to Washington, DC personally transforms the Vietnam veterans and others who ride in it. -- 33 Body Ritual Among the Nacirema xxx -- Horace Miner -- The Nacirema display a complex array of body rituals aimed at achieving health and beauty. -- Nine -- Globalization xxx -- 34 New Americans: The Road to Refugee Resettlement xxx -- Dianna Shandy -- Nuer refugees must develop the skill and determination to pass through a series of bureaucratic hurdles to reach and adjust to life in the United States. -- 35 Why Tourism Matters xxx -- Sharon Gmelch -- Although many people associate it with vacations and viewing exotic natives, tourism is a central globalizing agent worth anthropological study. -- 36 Japanese Hip-Hop and the Globalization of Popular Culture xxx -- Ian Condry -- Using the ethnographic approach in hip-hop clubs to understand a transnational trend, an anthropologist discovers that a form of pop culture invented in the United States can be hybridized to take on a Japanese flavor in Tokyo. -- Ten -- Culture Change and Applied Anthropology xxx -- 37 The Kayapo Resistance xxx -- Terence Turner -- Using everything from airplanes to the world environmental movement, the Kayapo Indians of Brazil manage to prevent the building of a dam that would have flooded their Amazonian habitat. -- 38 Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi xxx -- Sonia Patten -- A medical anthropologist is part of a team that introduces milk goats to Malawi villagers to counter a high rate of infant mortality among toddlers. -- 39 Using Anthropology xxx -- David McCurdy -- Professional anthropologists do everything from ethnographies of automobile production lines to famine relief, but even the neophyte may be able to use the ideas of culture and ethnography to understand the workplace. -- 40 Career Advice for Anthropology Undergraduates xxx -- John T. Omohundro -- The ability to translate useful anthropological skills into ãresume speakä is one way for anthropology graduates to find employment. -- Glossary xxx -- Index xxx |
| Analysis |
Anthropology |
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Ethnology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online (Table of contents) |
| Subject |
Ethnology.
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Anthropology.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Spradley, James P.
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McCurdy, David W.
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| LC no. |
2008030815 |
| ISBN |
9780205645855 |
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0205645852 |
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