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Applying Cultural Anthropology : An Introductory Reader

by: Lavenda, Robert H.

ISBN: 9780072564259 | 0072564253

Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 9/3/2002

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Summary Table of Contents

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.

* Indicates a selection new to this edition.

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CULTURE AND FIELDWORK

1. Body Ritual Among Nacirema - Horace Miner,1956

2. *Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape - Bruce Bower, 1999

3. Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS - Claire E. Sterk, 2000

4. Crack in Spanish Harlem - Philippe Bourgois, 1989

5. Profile of an Anthropologist -- Corporate Anthropologists - Jennifer J. Laabs, 1992

CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

6. Shakespeare in the Bush - Laura Bohannan, 1966

8. A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication - Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker -1982

9. Suite for Ebony and Phonics - John R. Rickford, 1997

CULTURE AND FOOD

10. Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health - Elizabeth D. Whitaker, 1998

11. Chinese Table Manners: You are How You Eat - Eugene Cooper, 1986

12. Culture and the Evolution of Obesity - Peter J. Brown, 1991

CULTURE AND AGRICULTURE

13. The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race - Jared Diamond, 1987

14. The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution - Gerald F. Murray, 1987

15. Two Rights Make a Wrong: Indigenous Peoples Versus Environmental Protection Agencies - Richard Reed, 2000

RACE AND ETHNICITY

16. Race without Color - Jared Diamond, 1994

17. Official Statement on “Race” - American Anthropological Association, 1997

18. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh, 1988

19. Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education - Deborah Freedman Lustig, 1997

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS

20. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari - Richard Borshay Lee, 1969

21. Strings Attached - Lee Cronk,1989

22. Using Cultural Skills for Cooperative Advantage in Japan Richard H. Reeves-Ellington – 1993

23. Family Planning Outreach and Credit Programs in Rural Bangladesh - Sidney Ruth Schuler and Syed M. Hashemi, 1995

24. *Profile - Anthropology in the Technology Industry - Greg Guest, 2001

GENDER AND SOCIALIZATION

25. Society and Sex Roles - Ernestine Friedl, 1978

26. *Our Babies, Our Selves - Meredith F. Small, 1997

27. New Women of The Ice Age - Heather Pringle, 1998

28. Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man’s Profession - Joan Cassell, 1997

MARRIAGE AND GENDER RELATIONS

29. When Brothers Share a Wife - Melvyn C. Goldstein, 1987

30. African Polygyny: Family Values and Contemporary Changes - Philip L. Kilbride, 1996

31. Law, Custom, and Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India - John van Willigen and V. C. Channa, 1991

POLITICS, LAW AND WARFARE

32. PROFILE of an Anthropologist: Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service - Jeffery L. MacDonald, 1996

33. The Kpelle Moot - James L. Gibbs Jr., 1963

34. Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands - Aaron Podolefsky, 1984

RELIGION, RITUAL AND CURING

35. *The Power of Islam. - Lincoln Keiser, 1991

36. Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies - Wade Davis, 1985

37. Aids as Human Suffering - Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman, 1989

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE

38. *Circumcision, Pluralism, and Dilemmas of Cultural Relativism - Corinne A. Kratz, 2002

39. Advertising and Global Culture - Noreene Janus, 1983

40. *How Sushi Went Global - Theodore C. Bestor, 2000

41. The Price of Progress - John H. Bodley, 1990

* Indicates a selection new to this edition.

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