Explorations in cultural anthropology

Explorations in cultural anthropology - Lanham AltaMira Press 2011 - x,400p. 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Crack in Spanish Harlem: culture and economy in the inner city / Philippe Bourgois -- Cultural relativism and universal human rights / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Eating Christmas in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee -- Reflections of a shy ethnographer: foot-in-the-mouth is not fatal / Juliana Flinn -- Doing collaborative ethnography / Luke Eric Lassiter -- Getting a living / Michelle Anderson, Anne Kraemer, and Ashley Moore -- The circle / Michael Agar -- Fighting for our lives / Deborah Tannen -- Body art as visual language / Enid Schildkrout -- One hundred percent American / Ralph Linton -- The silk road: the making of a global economy / Richard Kurin -- The globalization of a Brazilian fishing community / Conrad Kottak -- A tribal chair's perspective on inherent sovereignty / Billy Evans Horse -- Scientific and folk ideas about heredity / Jonathan M. Marks -- Melungeons and the politics of heritage / Melissa Schrift -- Inventing Hispanics: a diverse minority resists being labeled / Amitai Etzioni -- Different words, different worlds / Deborah Tannen -- "Ladies" behind bars: a liminal gender as cultural mirror / John M. Coggeshall -- The sworn virgins of Albania / Antonia Young -- Hijra and Sādhin: neither man nor woman in India / Serena Nanda -- Child-bearing [in Middletown USA, circa 1929] / Robert & Helen Lynd -- Gay marriage and anthropology / Linda S. Stone -- When brothers share a wife / Melvyn C. Goldstein -- Cavaet emptor? / Jonathan M. Marks -- The sacred pipe in modern life / Arval Looking Horse -- Oh, Gods! / Toby Lester -- Folklore and medicine / David J. Hufford -- Reflections on collaboration, ethnographic and applied / James L. Peacock -- Studying college students: applying anthropology to teaching anthropology / Cathy Small -- Virtual worlds and futures of anthropology / Tom Boellstorff.

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Ethnology.

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