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Preface | p. ix |
Culture | |
Introduction and Discussion Questions | p. 1 |
Body Ritual among the Nacirema | p. 5 |
Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City | p. 11 |
Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights | p. 25 |
Fieldwork and Ethnography | |
Introduction and Discussion Questions | p. 37 |
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari | p. 41 |
Reflections of a Shy Ethnographer: Foot-in-the-Mouth Is Not Fatal | p. 49 |
Doing Collaborative Ethnography | p. 57 |
Getting a Living | p. 65 |
Language, Communication, and Expressive Culture | |
Introduction and Discussion Questions | p. 83 |
The Circle | p. 89 |
Fighting for Our Lives | p. 105 |
Body Art as Visual Language | p. 125 |
Socioeconomic and Political Systems in a Changing World | |
Introduction and Discussion Questions | p. 135 |
One Hundred Percent American | p. 141 |
The Silk Road: The Making of a Global Cultural Economy | p. 145 |
The Globalization of a Brazilian Fishing Community | p. 159 |
A Tribal Chair's Perspective on Inherent Sovereignty | p. 167 |
Race and Ethnicity | |
Introduction and Discussion Questions | p. 175 |
Scientific and Folk Ideas about Heredity | p. 179 |
Melungeons and the Politics of Heritage | p. 191 |
Inventing Hispanics: A Diverse Minority Resists Being Labeled | p. 211 |
Gender and Sexuality | |
Introduction and Discussion Questions | p. 217 |
Different Words, Different Worlds | p. 223 |
"Ladies" Behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror | p. 243 |
The Sworn Virgins of Albania | p. 251 |
Hijra and Sadhin: Neither Man nor Woman in India | p. 259 |
Marriage, Family, and Kinship | |
Introduction and Discussion Questions | p. 275 |
Child-Rearing [in Middletown USA, circa 1929] | p. 281 |
Gay Marriage and Anthropology | p. 301 |
When Brothers Share a Wife | p. 305 |
Caveat Emptor? | p. 313 |
Belief Systems | |
Introduction and Discussion Questions | p. 319 |
The Sacred Pipe in Modern Life | p. 325 |
Oh, Gods! | p. 331 |
Folklore and Medicine | p. 349 |
Applied and Future Anthropologies | |
Introduction and Discussion Questions | p. 363 |
Reflections on Collaboration, Ethnographic and Applied | p. 367 |
Studying College Students: Applying Anthropology to Teaching Anthropology | p. 379 |
Virtual Worlds and Futures of Anthropology | p. 387 |
Index | p. 395 |
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