Applying Cultural Anthropology : An Introductory Reader
by Aaron Podolefsky; Peter J. BrownEdition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-07-01
Publisher(s): MAYF
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Indicates a selection new to this edition | |
| Culture And Fieldwork | |
| Body Ritual Among Nacirema | |
| *Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape | |
| Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS | |
| Crack in Spanish Harlem | |
| Profile of an Anthropologist | |
| Corporate Anthropologists | |
| Culture And Communication | |
| Shakespeare in the Bush | |
| To Give Up on Words: Silence in Western Apache Culture Keith Basso, 1970 | |
| A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication | |
| Suite for Ebony and Phonics | |
| Culture And Food | |
| Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health | |
| Chinese Table Manners: You are How You Eat | |
| Culture and the Evolution of Obesity | |
| Culture And Agriculture | |
| The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race | |
| The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution | |
| Two Rights Make a Wrong: Indigenous Peoples Versus Environmental Protection Agencies | |
| Race And Ethnicity | |
| Race without Color | |
| Official Statement on “Race” | |
| American Anthropological Association, 1997 | |
| White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | |
| Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education | |
| Deborah Freedman Lustig, 1997 | |
| Economy And Business | |
| Eating Christmas in the Kalahari | |
| Strings Attached | |
| Using Cultural Skills for Cooperative Advantage in Japan Richard H. Reeves-Ellington – 1993 | |
| Family Planning Outreach and Credit Programs in Rural Bangladesh | |
| *Profile - Anthropology in the Technology Industry | |
| Gender And Socialization | |
| Society and Sex Roles | |
| *Our Babies, Our Selves | |
| New Women of The Ice Age | |
| Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man’s Profession | |
| Marriage And Gender Relations | |
| When Brothers Share a Wife | |
| African Polygyny: Family Values and Contemporary Changes | |
| Law, Custom, and Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India | |
| Politics, Law And Warfare | |
| PROFILE of an Anthropologist: Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service | |
| The Kpelle Moot | |
| Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands | |
| Religion, Ritual And Curing | |
| The Power of Islam | |
| Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies | |
| Aids as Human Suffering | |
| Social And Cultural Change | |
| Circumcision, Pluralism, and Dilemmas of Cultural Relativism | |
| Advertising and Global Culture | |
| How Sushi Went Global | |
| The Price of Progress | |
| Indicates a selection new to this edition. | |
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