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Talking about people : readings in contemporary cultural anthropology/ William A. Haviland, Robert J. Gordon, Luis Antonio Vivanco

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston: McGraw-Hill, c2002Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxiv, 258 pages : 28cmISBN:
  • 9780767405133
  • 0767405137
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN 316 .T34 2001
Contents:
1. What is distinctive about anthropology? Anthropological perspectives on contemorary human problems Fact versus fiction: an ethnographic paradox set in the Seychelles Going native? Personal pathways 2. What is the meaning of culture? cultural Survival on "cultural survival" Loading the bases: how our tribe projects its own image into the national pastime When does life begin? A cross-cultural perspective on the personhood of fetuses and young children 3. What is the relationship between language and culture? When a juror watches a lawyer forms of address: how their social functions may vary What is, and isn't, in a word Language and social identity 4. How to people learn and experience their culture? Growing up American: doing the right thing The anthropologist as mother: reflections on childbirth observed and childbirth experienced Flexible survivors 5. How do people adapt to nature? Nomads on notice A view from the headwaters A taste of history Personal pathways 6. How do people make a living? Learning how to bribe a policeman Crack in Spanish Harlem: culture and economy in the inner city Cities without care or connection 7. How do women and men relate to each other? Arranging a marriage in India Ladies behind bars: a liminal gender as cultural mirror Female chiefs and their wives: tradition and modernity in Venda, South Africa The anthropologist's public-image problem Doing fieldword 8. What does it mean to be in a family? Why migrant owmen feed their husbands tamales: foodways as a basis for a revisionist view of Tejano family life Land of the walking marriage The persistence of polygamy 9. How do people express status and group membership? The new Latin labor owning places and buying time: class, culture, and stalled gentrification The genocidal state Doing fieldwork 10. How do people control the behavior of others? Say Cheese! The Disney order that is not so Mickey Mouse The modern stat: nation-builder or nation-killer? Deceptive stereotypes about tribal warfare Doing fieldwork 11. How do people relate to the supernatural? Witchccraft in anthropological perspective Feminine power at sea Treating the wounds of war: the culture of violence 12. How do cultures change? The ugly American revisited The anti-poitics machine: development and bureaucratic power in Lesotho Counter-development in the Andes Doing fieldwork Personal pathways 13. What does the future hold for anthropology? Visions of the future: the prospect for reconciliation The anthropology of abortion activism The Zapatistas and the electronic fabric of struggle The museum of me
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1. What is distinctive about anthropology?
Anthropological perspectives on contemorary human problems
Fact versus fiction: an ethnographic paradox set in the Seychelles
Going native?
Personal pathways
2. What is the meaning of culture?
cultural Survival on "cultural survival"
Loading the bases: how our tribe projects its own image into the national pastime
When does life begin? A cross-cultural perspective on the personhood of fetuses and young children
3. What is the relationship between language and culture?
When a juror watches a lawyer
forms of address: how their social functions may vary
What is, and isn't, in a word
Language and social identity
4. How to people learn and experience their culture?
Growing up American: doing the right thing
The anthropologist as mother: reflections on childbirth observed and childbirth experienced
Flexible survivors
5. How do people adapt to nature?
Nomads on notice
A view from the headwaters
A taste of history
Personal pathways
6. How do people make a living?
Learning how to bribe a policeman
Crack in Spanish Harlem: culture and economy in the inner city
Cities without care or connection
7. How do women and men relate to each other?
Arranging a marriage in India
Ladies behind bars: a liminal gender as cultural mirror
Female chiefs and their wives: tradition and modernity in Venda, South Africa
The anthropologist's public-image problem
Doing fieldword
8. What does it mean to be in a family?
Why migrant owmen feed their husbands tamales: foodways as a basis for a revisionist view of Tejano family life
Land of the walking marriage
The persistence of polygamy
9. How do people express status and group membership?
The new Latin labor
owning places and buying time: class, culture, and stalled gentrification
The genocidal state
Doing fieldwork
10. How do people control the behavior of others?
Say Cheese! The Disney order that is not so Mickey Mouse
The modern stat: nation-builder or nation-killer?
Deceptive stereotypes about tribal warfare
Doing fieldwork
11. How do people relate to the supernatural?
Witchccraft in anthropological perspective
Feminine power at sea
Treating the wounds of war: the culture of violence
12. How do cultures change?
The ugly American revisited
The anti-poitics machine: development and bureaucratic power in Lesotho
Counter-development in the Andes
Doing fieldwork
Personal pathways
13. What does the future hold for anthropology?
Visions of the future: the prospect for reconciliation
The anthropology of abortion activism
The Zapatistas and the electronic fabric of struggle
The museum of me

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