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1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Welcome! -- How Does That All Work for the Book, Exactly? -- Here's Everything in a Nutshell -- Using Your Uncommon Sense -- First, What Is Common Sense? -- The First Kind of Common Sense -- The Second Kind of Common Sense -- Snot -- Finally! What Is Uncommon Sense? -- How to Tell the Difference Between Common and Uncommon Sense? -- Anthropology Basics -- Ethnography -- Complexifying Ethnography |
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Complexifying 'Cultural Groups' -- Ethnography On the Inside -- You Are a [research] Tool -- The Field -- Before You Read Chapter 2 -- Notes -- References -- 2 Putting the Basics Together to Understand the University Anthropologically -- Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started -- Seeing the University Like a Culture -- Seeing the University Like a Culture You've Just Entered -- The Circumstances of Your Arrival Here -- Positions in the University -- A Core of Research -- Especial Time -- Especial Spaces, Surrounds and Buildings -- Especial Language -- Plagiarism -- Let's Make Some Uncommon Sense |
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Uncommon-sense Idea #1 -- Uncommon-sense Idea #2 -- Uncommon-sense Idea #3 -- Other Mapping Exercises -- Before You Read Chapter 3 -- Notes -- References -- 3 Taking Notice, Taking Note: How Do Anthropologists Do Anthropology? -- Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started -- What's the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter? -- What Can You Use this For? -- What Insights Can You Get Into the University By Thinking About How to Do Anthropology? -- Some Basics: Fieldnotes -- Being There -- The Fieldnotes Exercise: the Hard Parts -- Before You Read Chapter 4 -- References |
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4 Rites, Rituals, Graduations and Cakes -- Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started -- What's the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter? -- What Can You Use this For? -- What Insight Can You Get Into the University By Thinking With Rituals and Rites of Passage? -- The Work of Ritual -- Rites of Passage -- Before You Read Chapter 5 -- Notes -- References -- 5 Kinship and Relatedness -- Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started -- What's the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter? -- What Can You Use this For? |
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What Insight Can You Get Into the University By Thinking With Kinship and Genealogies? -- Some Theory Basics: Descent and Alliance Theories -- Descent Theory -- Alliance Theory -- Systems of Relatedness -- Ego -- The Bilateral Kinship Network -- Kinship Systems of Descent -- Questioning Presumptions -- Family and Community -- Ethnicity -- What Is It? -- The Ethnicity of Stockbrokers -- Qualities of Ethnicity -- Students -- an Ethnic Group? -- Ethnicity Is Slippery -- Before You Read Chapter 6 -- Notes -- References -- 6 Ethical Positions in Anthropology -- Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started |
| Summary |
This textbook is written by well-established anthropology professors for, and with, their undergraduate students. It explores what anthropological thinking is, what anthropological approaches are, and how these are applied in real-world settings |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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What's the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter? |
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Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- Textbooks
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Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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United States
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Textbooks
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dawson, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9781000798579 |
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1000798577 |
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