Conformity and Conflict : Readings in Cultural Anthropology

by James P. Spradley; David W. McCurdy

• ISBN13: 9780673525109
• ISBN10: 0673525104
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Table of Contents

World Map and Geographical Placement of Readings	x
Preface	xiii
Part 1 Culture and the Contemporary World	3	(10)
Part 2 Culture and Ethnography	13	(44)
Ethnography and Culture	18	(8)
James P. Spradley
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari	26	(8)
Richard Borshay Lee
Shakespeare in the Bush	34	(10)
Laura Bohannan
Lessons from the Field	44	(13)
George Gmelch
Part 3 Language and Communication	57	(44)
The Sounds of Silence	61	(10)
Edward T. Hall
Mildred Reed Hall
Conversation Style: Talking on the Job	71	(9)
Deborah Tannen
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: Worlds Shaped by Words	80	(13)
David S. Thomson
Teleconditioning and the Postmodern Classroom	93	(8)
Conrad Phillip Kottak
Part 4 Ecology and Subsistence	101	(52)
The Hunters: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari	105	(15)
Richard Borshay Lee
Cultivating the Tropical Forest	120	(10)
Richard K. Reed
India's Sacred Cow	130	(11)
Marvin Harris
Adaptive Failure: Easter's End	141	(12)
Jared Diamond
Part 5 Economic Systems	153	(38)
Reciprocity and the Power of Giving	157	(7)
Lee Cronk
The Shadow Economy: Cleaners in Bombay	164	(7)
Sara S. Mitter
Workaday World---Crack Economy	171	(9)
Philippe Bourgois
Subsistence and Market: When the Turle Collapses	180	(11)
Bernard Nietschmann
Part 6 Kinship and Family	191	(40)
Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping	195	(10)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Family and Kinship in Village India	205	(9)
David W. McCurdy
Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife	214	(8)
Melvyn C. Goldstein
Uterine Families and the Women's Community	222	(9)
Margery Wolf
Part 7 Roles and Inequality	231	(36)
Symbolizing Roles: Behind the Veil	235	(8)
Elizabeth W. Fernea
Robert A. Fernea
Society and Sex Roles	243	(9)
Ernestine Friedl
Culture, Rank, and JQ: The Bell Curve Phenomenon	252	(7)
Mark Nathan Cohen
The Vice Lord Phoenix	259	(8)
Lincoln Keiser
Part 8 Law and Politics	267	(40)
Why Women Take Men to Magistrate's Court	270	(12)
Mindie Lazarus-Black
Cross-cultural Law: The Case of the Gypsy Offender	282	(8)
Anne Sutherland
Navigating Nigerian Bureaucracies	290	(9)
Elizabeth A. Eames
Government, Oil, and Political Transformation: The Inupiat Eskimo Case	299	(8)
Normaqn A. Chance
Part 9 Religion, Magic, and Worldview	307	(42)
God's Saviours in the Sierra Madre	310	(10)
William L Merrill
Baseball Magic	320	(10)
George Gmelch
Revitalization Drives American Militias	330	(7)
William O. Beeman
Cargo Beliefs and Religious Experience	337	(12)
Stephen C. Leavitt
Part 10 Culture Change and Applied Anthropology	349	(52)
Cocaine and the Economic Deterioration of Bolivia	354	(11)
Jack McIver Weatherford
The Kayapo Resistance	365	(18)
Terence Turner
Using Anthropology	383	(12)
David W. McCurdy
The Medical Anthropologist as Consultant	395	(6)
Eric J. Bailey
Glossary	401	(7)
Photo Credits	408	(1)
Index	409