Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader
9th Edition
Published on 16. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-07-340535-3 (ISBN)
Description
Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader is a collection of articles that provides compelling examples of applied research in all four fields of anthropology. In this age of globalization and increased cultural intolerance, the basic messages of public anthropology are more important than ever. The ninth edition offers 11 new readings and a new chart at the beginning of the text to help instructors and students locate key themes and topics.
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Edition
9th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 274 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
751 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-340535-3 (9780073405353)
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Persons
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.
Content
Contents*= new readingTo the StudentTo the InstructorIntroduction: Understanding Humans and Human ProblemsPART I Biological Anthropology1 Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy Robert Root-Bernstein and Donald L. McEachron (The American Biology Teacher, 1982)*2 Re-reading Root-Bernstein and McEachron in Cobb County, Georgia: A Year Past and PresentBenjamin Z. Freed (2008)*3 The Family Tree Has Become a Bush with Many BranchesJohn Nobe Wilford (New York Times 2006)4 What Are Friends For? Barbara Smuts (Natural History, 1987) 5 Mothers and Others Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Natural History, 2001)6 Great Mysteries of Human Evolution Carl Zimmer (Discover, 2003)7 Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our HealthElizabeth D. Whitaker (1998)8 Slumber's Unexplored LandscapeBruce Bower (Science News, 1999)9 Ancient Genes and Modern HealthS. Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner (Anthroquest, 1985)10 The Tall and the Short of ItBarry Bogin (Discover, 1998)11 Identifying Victims After a DisasterDick Gould (Anthropology News, 2005)PART II Archaeology12 Battle of the BonesRobson Bonnichsen and Alan L. Schneider (The Sciences, 2000) 13 The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race Jared Diamond (Discover, 1987) *14 Uncovering America's Pyramid BuildersKaren Wright (Discover 2004)15 New Women of the Ice AgeHeather Pringle (Discover, 1998) 16 Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos (Natural History, 1985) 17 The Secrets of Ancient Tiwanaku Are Benefiting Today's Bolivia Baird Straughan (Smithsonian, 1991)18 "Clean Your Plate. There Are People Starving in Africa!" The Application of Archaeology and Ethnography to America's Food Loss IssuesTimothy W. Jones (2005) 19 Dawn of a New Stone Age in Eye SurgeryPayson D. Sheets (1993) *20 The Challenge of Race to American Historical ArchaeologyCharles Orser (American Anthropologist1998)PART III Linguistics *21 From Hoefonum to HeavensY. Battercharjee (Science 2004)*22 Village of the DeafMargalit Fox (Discover 2007)23 "To Give up on Words": Silence in Western Apache CultureKeith H. Basso (Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1970) 24 A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker (Language and Social Identity, 1982) PART IV Cultural AnthropologyCULTURE AND FIELDWORK25 Body Ritual Among the NaciremaHorace Miner (American Anthropologist, 1956) 26 Race Without Color Jared Diamond (Discover, 1994) 27 Shakespeare in the Bush Laura Bohannan (Natural History, 1966) 28 Eating Christmas in the KalahariRichard Borshay Lee (Natural History, 1969) FAMILY & KINSHIP29 How Many Fathers Are Best for a Child?Meredith F. Small (Discover, 2003) 30 When Brothers Share a WifeMelvyn C. Goldstein (Natural History, 1987) 31 Our Babies, OurselvesMeredith F. Small (Natural History, 1997) GENDER AND SEXUALITY*32 Strange Country This: An Introduction to North American Gender DiversityWill Roscoe (Changing Ones 2000)33 Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS Claire E. Sterk (2000) 34 Law, Custom, and Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India John van Willigen and V. C. Channa (Human Organization, 1991) HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND CULTURE35 Culture and the Evolution of Obesity Peter J. Brown (Human Nature, 1991) *36 Pocahontas Goes to the Clinic: Popular Culture as Lingua Franca in a Cultural BorderlandCheryl Mattingly (American Anthropologist 2006)37 Culture, Poverty, and HIV Transmission: The Case of Rural HaitiPaul Farmer (Infections and Inequalities, 1999) 38 Circumcision, Pluralism, and Dilemmas of Cultural RelativismCorinne A. Kratz (2002) WORK AND BUSINESS*39 Conflict and Confluence in Advertising MeetingsRobert Morais (Human Organization 2007)40 Coming of Age in Palo AltoKiate Hafner (New York Times, 1999) 41 Just Another Job? The Commodification of Domestic LaborBridget Anderson (2002) CONFLICT, LAW, AND CULTURE42 The Kpelle MootJames L. Gibbs, Jr. (Africa, 1963) 43 Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea HighlandsAaron Podolefsky (Ethnology, 1984) *44 Army Enlists Anthropology in War ZonesDavid Rohde (New York Times, 2007)GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE CHANGE 45 Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflection on Cultural Relativism and Its OthersLila Abu-Lughod (American Anthropologist, 2002) 46 Cell Phones, Sharing, and Social Status in an African SocietyDaniel Jordan Smith (2005)47 The Price of ProgressJohn H. Bodley (Victims of Progress, 1999) *48 Moral Fibers of Farmer Cooperatives: Creating Poverty and Wealth in Malian Cotton FieldsScott M. Lacy (2008)