Conformity and conflict: readings in cultural anthropology

[pt.] 1. Culture and ethnography. Ethnography and culture / James P. Spradley

Eating Christmas in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee

Fieldwork on prostitution in the era of AIDS / Claire E. Sterk

Nice girls don't talk to Rastas / George Gmelch

[pt.] 2. Language and communication. Shakespeare in the bush / Laura Bohannan

Whorf revisited : you are what you speak / Guy Deutscher

Manipulating meaning : the military name game / Sarah Boxer

Conversation style : talking on the job / Deborah Tannen

[pt.] 3. Ecology and subsistence. The hunters : scarce resources in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee

Eskimo science / Richard Nelson

Domestication and the evolution of disease / Jared Diamond

Forest development the Indian way / Richard K. Reed

[pt.] 4. Economic systems. Reciprocity and the power of giving / Lee Cronk

Poverty at work : office employment and the crack alternative / Philippe Bourgois

Cocaine and the economic deterioration of Bolivia / Jack Weatherford

Malawi versus the World Bank / Sonia Patten

[pt.] 5. Kinship and family. Mother's love : death without weeping / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Family and kinship in village India / David W. McCurdy

Polyandry : when brothers take a wife / Melvyn C. Goldstein

Uterine families and the women's community / Margery Wolf

[pt.] 6. Identity, roles, and groups. You@work : jobs, identity, and the Internet / Brenda Mann

The opt-out phenomenon : women, work, and identity in America / Dianna Shandy and Karine Moe

Do Muslim women really need saving? / Lila Abu-Lughod

Mixed blood / Jefferson M. Fish

[pt.] 7. Law and politics. Cross-cultural law : the case of the gypsy offender / Anne Sutherland

Life without chiefs / Marvin Harris

The founding Indian fathers / Jack Weatherford

[pt.] 8. Religion, magic, and world view. Taraka's ghost / Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed

Baseball magic / George Gmelch

Run for the wall : an American pilgrimage / Jill Dubisch

Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner

[pt.] 9. Globalization. How sushi went global / Theodore C. Bestor

Village walks : tourism and globalization among the Tharu of Nepal / Arjun Guneratne and Kate Bjork

The road to refugee resettlement / Dianna Shandy

Global women in the new economy / Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russe Hochschild

[pt.] 10. Culture change and applied anthropology. Advice for developers : Peace Corps problems in Botswana / Hoyt S. Alverson

Medical anthropology : leprosy on the Ganges / Ron Barrett

Public interest ethnography : women's prisons and health care in California / Rachael Stryker

Using anthropology / David W. McCurdy

Career advice for anthropology undergraduates / John T. Omohundro.

Part One. Culture and ethnography

1. Ethnography and culture / James P. Spradley

2. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee

3. Shakespeare in the bush / Laura Bohannan

4. Fieldwork on prostitution in the era of AIDS / Claire E. Sterk

5. Nice girls don't talk to Rastas / George Gmelch

Part Two. Language and communication

6. Managing meaning: the military name game / Sarah Boxer

7. Conversation style: talking on the job / Deborah Tannen

8. Tattoo talk: "juicing" customers / Jennifer Boehlke

9. Anthropologists investigate communications technology / Belle Mellor

Part Three. Ecology and subsistence

10. The hunters: scarce resources in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee

11. Adaptive failure: Easter's end / Jared Diamond

12. When the turtle collapses / Bernard Nietschmann

13. Forest development the Indian way / Richard K. Reed

Part Four. Economic systems

14. Reciprocity and the power of giving / Lee Cronk

15. Global women in the new economy / Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild

16. Cocaine and the economic deterioration of Bolivia / Jack Weatherford

17. Malawi versus the World Bank / Sonia Patten

Part Five. Kinship and family

18. Mother's love: death without weeping / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

19. Family and kinship in village India / David W. McCurdy

20. Polyandry: when brothers share a wife / Melvyn C. Goldstein

21. Uterine families and the women's community / Margery Wolf

Part Six. Identity, Roles, and Groups

22. Heading home: women, work, and identity in America / Dianna Shandy

23. Poverty, office work, and the crack alternative / Philippe Bourgois

24. Symbolizing roles: behind the veil / Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea

25. Mixed blood / Jeffrey M. Fish

Part Seven. Law and politics

26. Cross-cultural law: the case of the Gypsy offender / Anne Sutherland

27. Life without chiefs / Marvin Harris

28. The founding Indian fathers / Jack Weatherford

29. The kindness of strangers: The U.S. and Iraq / Robin Fox

Part Eight. Religion, magic, and world view

30. Taraka's ghost / Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed

31. Baseball magic / George Gmelch

32. Run for the wall: an American pilgrimage / Jill Dubisch

33. Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner

Part Nine. Globalization

34. New Americans: the road to refugee resettlement / Dianna Shandy

35. Why tourism matters / Sharon Gmelch

36. Japanese hip-hop and the globalization of popular culture / Ian Condry

Part Ten. Culture change and applied anthropology

37. The Kayapo resistance / Terence Turner

38. Medical anthropology: improving nutrition in Malawi / Sonia Patten

39. Using anthropology / David McCurdy

40. Career advice for anthropology undergraduates / John T. Omohundro

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