| Description |
258 pages : map |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Chapter I: What Is Distinctive about Anthropology? -- 1. John H. Bodley, Anthropological Perspectives on Contemporary Human Problems -- 2. Marion Benedict, Fact Versus Fiction: An Ethnographic Paradox Set in the Seychelles -- 3. William Klausner, Going Native? -- 4. PERSONAL PATHWAYS: Robert L. Welsch, The Pathways of an Anthropologist -- Chapter 2: What Is the Meaning of Culture? -- 5. Ian McIntoch and David Maybury-Lewis, Cultural Survival on ?cultural survival? -- 6. Bradd Shore, Loading the Bases: How Our Tribe Projects Its Own Image Into the National Pastime -- 7. Lynn Morgan, When Does Life Begin? A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Personhood of Fetuses and Young Children -- Chapter 3: Language and Culture -- 8. William M. O?Barr and John M. Conley, When a Juror Watches a Lawyer -- 9. Salikoko S. Mufwene, Forms of Address: How Their Social Functions May Vary -- 10. Jesse Sheidlower, What Is, and Isn?t, In a Word -- 11. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Language and Social Identity -- Chapter 4: How Do People Learn and Experience Their Culture? -- 12. Amparo B. Ojeda, Growing Up American: Doing the Right Thing -- 13. Alma Gottlieb, The Anthropologist as Mother: Reflections on Childbirth Observed and Childbirth Experienced -- 14. Emily Martin, Flexible Survivors -- Chapter 5: How Do People Adapt to Nature? -- 15. Daniel Stiles, Nomads on Notice -- 16. Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, A View from the Headwaters -- 17. Sidney Mintz, A Taste of History -- 18. PERSONAL PATHWAYS: Amy Trubek, ?Food is Good to Think? -- Chapter 6: How Do People Make a Living? -- 19. Sean Cush McNamara, Learning How to Bribe a Policeman -- 20. Philippe Bourgois, Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City -- 21. Richard Sennett, Cities without Care or Connection -- Chapter 7: How Do Women and Men Relate to Each Other? -- 22. Serena Nanda, Arranging a Marriage in India -- 23. John M. Coggeshall, ?Ladies? Behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror -- 24. Gina Buijs, Female Chiefs and their Wives: Tradition and Modernity in Venda, South Africa -- 25. Micaela di Leonardo, The Anthropologist?s Public Image Problem -- 26. DOING FIELDWORK: David Huston: Are We There Yet? Getting to the Field -- Chapter 8: What Does It Mean to Be in a Family? -- 27. Brett Williams, Why Migrant Women Feed Their Husbands Tamales: Foodways as a Basis for a Revisionist View of Tejano Family Life -- 28. Lu Yuan and Sam Mitchell, Land of the Walking Marriage -- 29. Timothy Egan, The Persistence of Polygamy -- Chapter 9: How Do People Express Status and Group Membership? -- 30. Alan Zarembo, The New Latin Labor -- 31. Brett Williams, Owning Places and Buying Time: Class, Culture, and Stalled Gentrification -- 32. Alex de Waal, Genocide in Rwanda -- 33. DOING FIELDWORK: Elizabeth Garland, An Anthropologist Learns the Value of Fear -- Chapter 10: How Do People Control the Behavior of Others? -- 34. Clifford D. Shearing and Philip C. Stenning, ?Say Cheese!? The Disney Order That Is Not So Mickey Mouse -- 35. Pierre Van Den Berghe, The Modern State: Nation-Builder or Nation-Killer? -- 36. Neil L. Whitehead and R. Brian Ferguson, Deceptive Stereotypes about ?Tribal Warfare? -- 37. DOING FIELDWORK: Andrew Cornish, Participant Observation on a Motorcycle -- Chapter 11: How Do People Relate to the Supernatural? -- 38. Isak Niehaus, Witchcraft in Anthropological Perspective -- 39. Silvia Rodgers, Feminine Power at Sea -- 40. Carolyn Nordstrom, Treating the Wounds of War: The Culture of Violence -- Chapter 12: How Do Cultures Change? -- 41. James Brain, The Ugly American Revisited -- 42. James Ferguson with Larry Lohmann, The Anti-Politics Machine: ?Development? and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho -- 43. Fre;de;rique Appfel-Marglin, Counter-Development in the Andes -- 44. DOING FIELDWORK: Alex de Waal: In the Disaster Zone ? Anthropologists and the Ambiguity of Aid -- 45. PERSONAL PATHWAYS: Glenn McRae, A Career in Waste -- Chapter 13: What Does the Future Hold for Anthropology? -- 46. Ian S. McIntosh, Visions of the Future: The Prospect for Reconciliation -- 47. Faye Ginsburg, The Anthropology of Abortion Activism -- 48. Harry Cleaver, The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle -- 49. Ellen Ullman, The Museum of Me -- Glossary -- Index -- Indicates New Selection -- Indicates New Selection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ethnology.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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| Author |
Haviland, William A.
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Gordon, Robert J., 1947-
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Vivanco, Luis Antonio, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2001058722 |
| ISBN |
0767405137 paperback |
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