Applying Anthropology : An Introductory Reader

by PODOLEFSKY

Edition:

7th

ISBN13:

9780072566048

ISBN10:

0072566043

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/26/2002

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McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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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.

To the Student

vii

To the Instructor

Introduction: Understanding Humans and Human Problems

(2)

PART I Biological Anthropology

(58)

Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy

(9)

Robert Root-Bernstein

Donald L. McEachron

What Are Friends For?

(6)

Barbara Smuts

What's Love Got to Do with It?

(4)

Meredith Small

Mothers and Others

(7)

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Once We Were Not Alone

(6)

Ian Tattersall

Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health

(10)

Elizabeth D. Whitaker

Slumber's Unexplored Landscape

(4)

Bruce Bower

Ancient Genes and Modern Health

(4)

S. Boyd Eaton

Melvin Konner

The Tall and the Short of It

(5)

Barry Bogin

PART II Archaeology

(50)

Battle of the Bones

(6)

Robson Bonnichsen

Alan L. Schneider

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

(4)

Jared Diamond

New Women of the Ice Age

(7)

Heather Pringle

Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds

(5)

Alan H. Goodman

George J. Armelagos

The Secrets of Ancient Tiwanaku Are Benefiting Today's Bolivia

(6)

Baird Straughan

Easter's End

(6)

Jared Diamond

Profile of an Anthropologist From Tikal to Tucson: Today's Garbage Is Tomorrow's Artifact

(3)

Food Waste Behavior in an Urban Population

101

(7)

Gail G. Harrison

William L. Rathje

Wilson W. Hughes

Dawn of a New Stone Age in Eye Surgery

108

(3)

Payson D. Sheets

PART III Cultural Anthropology

111

CULTURE AND FIELDWORK

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

114

(4)

Horace Miner

Letter from Peri---Manus II

118

(4)

Margaret Mead

Crack in Spanish Harlem

122

(8)

Philippe Bourgois

Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS

130

(8)

Claire E. Sterk

Profile of an Anthropologist Corporate Anthropologists

138

(6)

Jennifer J. Laabs

CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Shakespeare in the Bush

144

(6)

Laura Bohannan

``To Give up on Words'': Silence in Western Apache Culture

150

(10)

Keith H. Basso

A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication

160

(12)

Daniel N. Maltz

Ruth A. Borker

Suite for Ebony and Phonics

172

(5)

John R. Rickford

CULTURE AND FOOD

You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement

177

(8)

Jill Dubisch

Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat

185

(7)

Eugene Cooper

Culture and the Evolution of Obesity

192

(11)

Peter J. Brown

RACE AND ETHNICITY

Race Without Color

203

(7)

Jared Diamond

Official Statement on ``Race''

210

(2)

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

212

(4)

Peggy McIntosh

Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education

216

(12)

Deborah Freedman Lustig

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS

Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

228

(5)

Richard Borshay Lee

Strings Attached

233

(5)

Lee Cronk

The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution

238

(9)

Gerald F. Murray

Using Cultural Skills for Cooperative Advantage in Japan

247

(12)

Richard H. Reeves-Ellington

Profile of an Anthropologist Anthropology in the Technology Industry

259

(2)

Greg Guest

GENDER AND SOCIALIZATION

Our Babies, Ourselves

261

(7)

Meredith F. Small

Society and Sex Roles

268

(6)

Ernestine Friedl

Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man's Profession

274

(9)

Joan Cassell

KINSHIP, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY

When Brothers Share a Wife

283

(5)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

Law, Custom, and Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India

288

(11)

John van Willigen

V. C. Channa

African Polygyny: Family Values and Contemporary Changes

299

(9)

Philip L. Kilbride

POLITICS, LAW, AND WARFARE

Profile of an Anthropologist Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service

308

(5)

Jeffery L. MacDonald

The Kpelle Moot

313

(8)

James L. Gibbs, Jr.

Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands

321

(9)

Aaron Podolefsky

RELIGION, RITUAL, AND CURING

The Power of Islam

330

(8)

Lincoln Keiser

Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies

338

(4)

Wade Davis

AIDS as Human Suffering

342

(9)

Paul Farmer

Arthur Kleinman

CULTURAL CHANGE AND GLOBALIZATION

Circumcision, Pluralism, and Dilemmas of Cultural Relativism

351

(12)

Corinne A. Kratz

Advertising and Global Culture

363

(4)

Noreene Janus

How Sushi Went Global

367

(7)

Theodore C. Bestor

The Price of Progress

374

John H. Bodley

Glossary

(1)

Index

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