Applying Cultural Anthropology : An Introductory Reader

by Podolefsky, Aaron; Brown, Peter; Lacy, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780073405339
• ISBN10: 0073405337
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-28
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Readeris a collection of articles that provide compelling examples of applied research in cultural anthropology. In this age of globalization and increased cultural intolerance, the basic messages of public anthropology are more important than ever. The eighth edition offers 8 new readings and a new chart at the beginning of the text to help instructors and students locate key themes and topics.

Table of Contents

Contents = new reading To the Student To the Instructor

Introduction: Understanding Humans and Human Problems Culture and Fieldwork

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Slumbern++s Unexplored Landscape

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

Shakespeare in the Bush

n++To Give Up on Wordsn++: Silence in Western Apache Culture Keith H. Basso (Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1970)

A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat

Culture and the Evolution of Obesity

Race Without Color

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Pocahontas Goes to the Clinic: Popular Culture as Lingua Franca in a Cultural Borderland

When Brothers Share a Wife

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

How Many Fathers Are Best for a Child?

Gay Marriage and Anthropology

Strange Country This: An Introduction to North American Gender Diversity

Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others

Measuring Up to Barbie: Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture

Family Planning Outreach and Credit Programs in Rural Bangladesh

Conflict and Confluence in Advertising Meetings

Coming of Age in Palo Alto

Just Another Job? The Commodification of Domestic Labor

The Kpelle Moot

Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands

Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones

Sacred Barriers to Conflict Resolution

The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual

The Viral Superhighway

A Teaching Framework for Cross-Cultural Health Care

Moral Fibers of Farmer Cooperatives: Creating Poverty and Wealth in Malian Cotton Fields

The Search for Sustainable Markets: The Promise and Failures of Fair Trade

Two Rights Make a Wrong: Indigenous Peoples Versus Environmental Protection Agencies

Culture, Poverty, and HIV Transmission: The Case of Rural Haiti, By:

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