Aaron Podolefsky, Peter J. Brown, Scott M. Lacy

Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader

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Produktbeschreibung

Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader is 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 281
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 272mm x 211mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780073405339
• ISBN-10: 0073405337
• Artikelnr.: 23524559

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Brown teaches at Emory University. He is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences and also a professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health. He serves as the Director of Emorys Center for Health, Culture and Society. He has co-edited : The Anthropology of Infectious Diseases; Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda; Applying Anthropology (9th edition); and Applying Cultural Anthropology (8th edition). His research primarily deals with sociocultural aspects of malaria and its control, and he serves on a malaria-related Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Health Organization. He has an additional research interest on cultural issues in obesity and its related chronic diseases. Recipient of several teaching awards, he is a director of a new program "Global Health, Culture and Society" at Emory College.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
* = new reading
To the Student
To the Instructor
Introduction: Understanding Humans and Human Problems
Culture and Fieldwork
1 Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, By: Horace Miner (American
Anthropologist, 1956)
2 Slumber's Unexplored Landscape, By: Bruce Bower (Science News, 1999)
3 Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS, By:
Claire E. Sterk (2000)
Language, Communication, and Culture
4 Shakespeare in the Bush, By: Laura Bohannan (Natural History, 1966)
5 "To Give Up on Words": Silence in Western Apache Culture
Keith H. Basso (Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1970)
6 A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication, By: Daniel N. Maltz
and Ruth A. Borker (Language and Social Identity, 1982)
Culture and Food
7 The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race, By: Jared Diamond
(Discover, 1987)
8 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari, By: Richard Borshay Lee (Natural
History, 1969)
9 Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat, By: Eugene Cooper (Human
Organization, 1986)
10 Culture and the Evolution of Obesity, By: Peter J. Brown (Human Nature,
1991)
Race and Ethnicity
11 Race Without Color, By: Jared Diamond (Discover, 1994)
12 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
*13 Pocahontas Goes to the Clinic: Popular Culture as Lingua Franca in a
Cultural Borderland, By: Cheryl Mattingly (American Anthropologist 2006)
Kinship, Marriage & Family
14 When Brothers Share a Wife, By: Melvyn C. Goldstein (Natural History,
1987)
15 Law, Custom, and Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in
India, By: John van Willigen and V. C. Channa (Human Organization, 1991)
16 How Many Fathers Are Best for a Child?, By: Meredith F. Small (Discover,
2003)
Gender and Sexuality
*17 Gay Marriage and Anthropology, By: Linda Stone (Anthropology News,
2004)
*18 Strange Country This: An Introduction to North American Gender
Diversity, By: Will Roscoe (Changing Ones 2000)
19 Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on
Cultural Relativism and Its Others, By: Lila Abu-Lughod (American
Anthropologist, 2002)
20 Measuring Up to Barbie: Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture,
By: Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund (Devient Bodies, 1995)
21 Family Planning Outreach and Credit Programs in Rural Bangladesh, By:
Sidney Ruth Schuler and Syed M. Hashemi (Human Organization, 1995)
Work and Business
*22 Conflict and Confluence in Advertising Meetings, By: Robert Morais
(Human Organization 2007)
23 Coming of Age in Palo Alto, By: Katie Hafner (New York Times, 1999)
24 Just Another Job? The Commodification of Domestic Labor, By: Bridget
Anderson (Global Woman, 2003)
Politics, Conflict, and the Law
25 The Kpelle Moot, By: James L. Gibbs Jr. (Africa, 1963)
26 Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands, By: Aaron Podolefsky
(Ethnology, 1984)
*27 Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones, By: David Rohde (New York
Times, 2007)
*28 Sacred Barriers to Conflict Resolution, By: Scott Atran, Robert
Axelrod, and Richard Davis (Science, 2007)
Culture, Religion, and Healing
29 The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual, By: Richard Sosis (American
Scientist, 2004)
30 The Viral Superhighway, By: George Armelagos (The Sciences, 1998)
31 A Teaching Framework for Cross-Cultural Health Care, By: Elois Ann
Berlin and William C. Fowkes (Western Journal of Medicine, 1983)
Culture and Environment
*32 Moral Fibers of Farmer Cooperatives: Creating Poverty and Wealth in
Malian Cotton Fields, By: Scott M. Lacy (2008)
*33 The Search for Sustainable Markets: The Promise and Failures of Fair
Trade, By: Julia Smith (Culture & Agriculture, 2007)
34 Two Rights Make a Wrong: Indigenous Peoples Versus Environmental
Protection Agencies, By: Richard Reed (2000)
Globalization and Culture Change
35 Culture, Poverty, and HIV Transmission: The Case of Rural Haiti, By:
Paul Farmer (Infections and Inequalities, 1999)
36 Cell Phones, Sharing, and Social Status in an African Society, By:
Daniel Jordan Smith (2005)
37 Circumcision, Pluralism, and Dilemmas of Cultural Relativism, By:
Corinne A. Kratz (2002)
38 The Price of Progress, By: John H. Bodley (Victims of Progress, 1999)