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Annual Editions: Anthropology 06/07

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This twenty-ninth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: ANTHROPOLOGY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor's resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.mhcls.com/online.

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• Annual Editions: Anthropology
• Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 275mm x 210mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780073515922
• ISBN-10: 0073515922
• Artikelnr.: 21427606

Inhaltsangabe

UNIT 1. Anthropological Perspectives
Yanomamö: The Fierce People, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1992
Although an anthropologist's first field experience may involve
culture shock, Napoleon Chagnon reports that the long process of
participant observation may transform personal hardship and frustration
into confident understanding of exotic cultural patterns.
2. Lessons from the Field, George Gmelch, Conformity and Conflict: Readings
in Cultural Anthropology, Macalester, 2003
By introducing students to fieldwork, George Gmelch provides them with
the best that anthropology has to offer—an enriched understanding of
other people and cultures along with a glimpse of oneself and what it
means to be an American. Fieldwork is a matter of mutual acceptance and
mutual economic benefit.
Natural History, December 1969
Anthropologist Richard Borshay Lee gives an account of the
misunderstanding and confusion that often accompany the cross-cultural
experience. In this case, he violated a basic principle of the !Kung
Bushmen's social relations—food sharing.
4. Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS,
Claire E. Sterk, Tricking and Tripping: Prostitution in the Era of AIDS,
Social Change Press, 2000
As unique as Claire Sterk's report on prostitution may be, she
discusses issues common to anthropologists wherever they do fieldwork:
how does one build trusting relationships with informants and what are
an anthropologist's ethical obligations toward them?
UNIT 2. Culture and Communication
The Argument Culture, Random House, 1998
In America today, there seems to be a pervasive warlike tone to public
dialogue. The prevailing belief is that there are only two sides to an
issue and opposition leads to truth. Often, however, an issue is more
like a crystal, with many sides, and the truth is in the complex
middle, not in the oversimplified extremes.
I Only Say This Because I Love You, Random House, 2001
Since family members have a long, shared history, what they say in
conversation—the messages—echo with meanings from the past—the
metamessages. The metamessage may not be spoken, but its meaning may be
gleaned from every aspect of context: the way something is said, who is
saying it, or the very fact that it is said at all.
Natural History, August/September 1966
It is often claimed that great literature has cross-cultural
significance. In this article, Laura Bohannan describes the
difficulities she encountered and the lessons she learned as she
attempted to relate the story of Hamlet to the Tiv of West Africa in
their own language.
Museum of Natural History Publication for Educators, Winter 2001
As a visual language, body art involves shared symbols, myths and
social values. Whether as an expression of individuality or group
identity, it says something about who we are and what we want to
become.
UNIT 3. The Organization of Society and Culture
Audubon, September/October 1993
The traditional hunters' insights into the world of nature may be
different, but they are as extensive and profound as those of modern
science.
10. The Inuit Paradox, Patricia Gadsby, Discover, October 2004
The traditional diet of the Far North, with its high-protein, high-fat
content, shows that there are no essential foods—only essential
nutrients.
11. Ties that Bind, Peter M. Whiteley, Natural History, November 2004
The Hopi people offer gifts in a much broader range of circumstances
than people in Western cultures do, tying individuals and groups to
each other and to the realm of the spirits.
The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales From the Pacific, Wadsworth Publishing,
1990
Among the lessons to be learned regarding reciprocity is that one may
not demand a gift or refuse it. Yet, even without a system of
record-keeping or money being involved, there is a long-term balance of
mutual benefit.
Archaeology, May/June 2003
Rather than deny the prevalence of warfare in our past, says the
author, anthropology would be better served by asking "why do people go
to war?” and "why do they stop fighting?”
UNIT 4. Other Families, Other Ways
Discover, April 2003
The ways in which people view biological paternity says a lot about the
power relationships between men and women, the kinds of families they
form, and how the human species evolved.
Natural History, March, 1987
While the custom of fraternal polyandry relegated many Tibetan women to
spinsterhood, this unusual marriage form promoted personal security and
economic well-being for its participants.
16. Adding a Co-Wife, Leanna Wolfe, Loving More Magazine, Fall 1998
After seven years, the author's partner became involved with another
woman. By taking her cues from polygynous households in East Africa,
she learned how to deal with the disruption by adding a "co-wife.”
Natural History, October 1989
In the shantytowns of Brazil, the seeming indifference of mothers who
allow some of their children to die is a survival strategy geared to
circumstances in which only a few may live.
Natural History, October 1997
Cross-cultural research in child development shows that parents readily
accept their society's prevailing ideology on how babies should be
treated, usually because it makes sense in their environmental or
social circumstances.
Stumbling Toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work, Wareland Press, 2000
Arranging a marriage in India is far too serious a business for the
young and inexperienced. Instead the parents make decisions on the
basis of the families' social position, reputation and ability to get
along.
The New York Times, February 11, 1996
Paradoxically, Japanese families seem to survive, not because husbands
and wives love each other more than American couples do, but because
they perhaps love each other less. As love marriages increase, with the
compatibility factor becoming more important in the decision to marry,
the divorce rate in Japan is rising.
UNIT 5. Gender and Status
A World Full of Women, Third Edition, 2002
Even though some jobs may be "women's work” and others are defined as "
men's work,” such tasks are not the same in every group. Moreover, the
relative power of men versus women has to do with who has the ability
to distribute, exchange, and control valuable goods and services to
people outside the domestic unit.
Spirit and the Flesh, Beacon Press, 1986
Not all societies agree with the Western cultural view that all humans
are either women or men. In fact, many Native American cultures
recognize an alternative role called the "berdache,” a morphological
male who has a nonmasculine character. This is just one way for a
society to recognize and assimilate some atypical individuals without
imposing a change on them or stigmatizing them as deviant.
The Sciences, January/February 1999
An anthropologist's study of the ritual of seclusion surrounding
women's menstrual cycle has some rather profound implications regarding
human evolution, certain cultural practices, and women's health.
Los Angeles Times, September 30, 1998
In a rite of passage, some Nigerian girls spend months gaining weight
and learning domestic customs in a "fattening room.” A woman's
rotundity is seen as a sign of good health, prosperity, and feminine
beauty.
25. FGM: Maasai Women Speakout, Ledama Olekina, Cultural Survival Quarterly
, December 15, 2004
According to Ledama Olekina, international efforts to stop female
circumcision are sometimes putting women at even greater risk. In
advocating open dialogue between community members and discussing
possible alternatives, she offers an example in which Maasai women
themselves become an effective force for social change.
UNIT 6. Religion, Belief, and Ritual
Magic, Witchcraft and Religion, Mayfield Publishing Co., 2001
Because of cost, availability and cultural bias, many people rely on
ethnomedical or traditional treatment of illness rather than
biomedical or Western treatment. Actually, says Lehmann, both systems
are effective in their own ways and should be integrated in developing
primary health care in the Third World.
American Scientist, March-April 2004
Rituals promote group cohesion by requiring members to engage in
behavior that is too costly to fake. Groups that do so are more likely
to attain their collective goals than are groups whose members are less
committed.
Medicine Quest, Penguin Books, 2000
The Western tendency to disregard shamanic healing practices is
supremely ironic when one considers the extraordinary therapeutic gifts
they have already provided us and the invaluable potential that is
still out there—if we can get to it before it disappears.
Harvard Magazine, January/February 1986
In seeking scientific documentation of the existence of zombies,
anthropologist Wade Davis found himself looking beyond the stereotypes
and mysteries of voodoo and directly into a cohesive system of social
control in rural Haiti.
American Anthropologist, June 1956
The ritual beliefs and taboos of the Nacirema provide us with a test
case of the objectivity of ethnographic description and show us the
extremes to which human behavior can go.
Elysian Fields Quarterly, All Star Issue, 1992
Professional baseball players, as do Trobriand Islanders, often resort
to magic in situations of chance and uncertainty. As irrational as it
may seem, magic creates confidence, competence, and control in the
practitioner.
UNIT 7. Sociocultural Change: The Impact of the West
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity, Random House, 1977
When colonial governments force the conversion of subsistence farms to
cash crop plantations, peasants are driven onto marginal lands or into
a large pool of cheap labor. In either case, the authors maintain, they
are no longer able to feed themselves.
33. No Place to Call Home, Takeyuki Tsuda, Natural History, April 2004
When Japanese Brazilians return to the country of their ancestors, they
discover that they are isolated as foreigners. Instead of striving to
blend in as native Japanese, many of them respond by acting in overtly
Brazilian ways.
Discover, October 1992
The most deadly weapon that colonial Europeans carried to other
continents was their germs. The most intriguing question to answer here
is why the flow of disease did not move in the opposite direction.
Victims of Progress, Mayfield Publishing, 1998
As traditional cultures are sacrificed to the process of
modernization, tribal peoples not only lose the security, autonomy, and
quality of life they once had, but they also become powerless,
second-class citizens who are discriminated against and exploited by
the dominant society.
36. Malthus in Africa: Rwanda's Genocide, Jared Diamond, Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Suceed, Viking Adult, 2004
What seemed on the surface to be a simple case of ethnic hatred turned
out, on closer inspection, to involve excessive population growth,
environmental degradation, a breakdown of traditional social cohesion,
and political expediency.
Contemporary Pacific Societies: Studies in Development and Change, Prentice
Hall, 1993
The relatively benign use of psychoactive drugs, such as betel and kava
in the Pacific Islands, is deeply rooted in cultural traditions and
patterns of social interaction. Today, as a result of new drugs and
disruptive social and economic changes introduced from the outside, a
haze hangs over Oceania.
38. Pushing Beyond the Earth's Limits, Lester R. Brown, The Futurist,
May/June 2005
The future will see not just more mouths to feed, but a growing demand
for higher-quality, more resource-intensive food. The world's farmers
may not be up to the many challenges of meeting these demands.
Harper's Magazine, June 2003
The world today is suffering from the same problems as the ancient Maya
, although on a much larger scale: increased pollution, environmental
degradation and potential economic collapse. The difference so far,
says Jared Diamond, is "that we know their fate, and they did not.
Perhaps we can learn.”