Faces of Anthropology
A Reader for the 21st Century
5th Edition
Published on 15. February 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-13-154054-5 (ISBN)
Description
For undergraduate courses in introductory cultural anthropology.
This book is a collection of readings that illustrate key concepts in introductory cultural anthropology. Each section has an introduction written by the editors that provides an overview of the topic and provides a context for the readings. Every reading concludes with a set of critical thinking questions for the student to consider.
This book is a collection of readings that illustrate key concepts in introductory cultural anthropology. Each section has an introduction written by the editors that provides an overview of the topic and provides a context for the readings. Every reading concludes with a set of critical thinking questions for the student to consider.
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Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-13-154054-5 (9780131540545)
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Content
Preface.
1. Changing Faces of Anthropology: The Subfields.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Learning to Love Neanderthals, Robert Kunzig. Race Without Color, Jared Diamond. Digging Beneath Honolulu's Chinatown, Joseph Kennedy. 1491, Charles C. Mann. For Reasons Out of Our Hands, Joan Smith/Kocamahhul. Cultural Survival vs. Forced Assimilation: The Renewed War on Diversity, Jon Reyhner. Recording the Spirit World, Dorothy Harley Eber. Adventures in the Field and in the Locker Room, Mari Womack and Joan C. Barker.
2. Fieldwork Among the Familiar and the Strange.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty.
Epistemology: How You Know What You Know, Kenneth L. Feder. Are Ethnographies "Just So" Stories?, E. Paul Durrenberger. Filipinos Were My Teachers, Patricia Snyder Wiebust. Professional Football: An American Symbol and Ritual, William Arens. Kenya, Land of My Fathers: A Time Traveler in Kenya, Chapurukha M. Kusimba. Pastoral Nomadism and Gender, Susan Rasmussen.
3. Subsistence and Economics.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. The Hunters and gatherers of New Guinea, Paul Roscoe. Ashmounds and HilltopVillages: The Search for Early Agriculture in Southern India, Dorian Q. Fuller. Yanomamo: Varying Adaptations of Foraging Horticulturalists, Raymond B. Hames. Trickle-Down Theory, Andean Style, Paul Trawick.
4. Family, Marriage, and Kinship.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. The Disappearance of the Incest Taboo, Yehudi Cohen. Parallel Brides: For Some Families, Matchmaking is an Intricate Dance, Mustafa Turker Ersen. Family and Kinship in Village India, David W. McCurdy. Life Behind the Veil, Cherry Lindholm and Charles Lindholm. Brazil: Moving Targets, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Daniel Hoffman.
5. Realities of Gender.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Biological Influences on Gender, Jean Stockard and Miriam M. Johnson. Woman the Hunter: The Agta, Agnes Estioko-Griffen and P. Bion Griffin. Working Girl, Lynn A. Meisch. Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea, Gilbert H. Herdt. The War Against Boys, Christina Hoff Sommers.
6. Politics: Who Gets What, When, and How.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Social Classification of Hunter-Gatherers: An Evolutionary Perspective, Hitoshi Watanabe. Maroon Autonomy in Jamaica, Kenneth M. Bilby. War, Factionalism, and the State of Afghanistan, Nazif M. Shahrani. Negotiated and Mediated Meanings: Ethnicity and Politics in Israeli Newspapers, Daniel Lefkowitz. Genesis of Suicide Terrorism, Scott Altran. Humanitarianism, Terrorism, and the Transnational Border, Michael Humphrey.
7. Religion, Religious Specialists, and Religious Ritual.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Shamanism in Northwest Australia, Andreas Lommel and David Mowaljarlai. Myths and Monsters: Decoding Ritual Images of a Mysterious Ancient American Religion, Ales W. Barker. A Reverence for Cows, Doranne Jacobson. Be Holy For I Am Holy: Food, Politics, and the Teaching of Judaism, Jay M. Eidelman. The Ethnomethodology of Ritual Invention in Contemporary Culture- Two Pagan and Christian Cases, Jone Salomonsen. Possession States Across the World: An Anthropological Approach, Kevin Rafferty.
8. Symbolic Expression.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Reading the Minds of Rock Artists, David Whitley. A Painted Land, Margaret Grove. Re-Telling One's Own: Storytelling Among the Apsaalooke (Crow Indians), Rodney Frey. The Arts of Memory: Icon and Structural Violence in a Dublin `Underclass' Housing Estate, A. Jamie Sardis and Brendan Bartley. Native Burials: Human Rights and Sacred Bones, Edward Halealoha Ayau.
9. Globalization and Its Challenges
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Globalization North and South, Jan Nederveen Pieterse. Maori Sport and Cultural Identity in Australia, Paul Bergin. The Globally Distributed Team, Marietta L. Baba. The Price of Progress, John Bodley.
10. Solving Human Problems.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Plan B: What is Going to Happen to My People?, Theodore E. Downing and Carmen Garcia-Downing. Tradition: Cultural Solutions to Human Needs, Jerry Moles. The Lakota Fund: Local Institutions & Access to Credit, Monica Terkildsen and Kathleen Pickering. The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery, Kevin Bales. Putting Anthropology to Work to Preserve Appalachian Heritage, Mary B. La Lone. Lifeskills and HIV/AIDS Education for Mekong Youth, Robert Bennoun and Prudence Borthwick.
1. Changing Faces of Anthropology: The Subfields.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Learning to Love Neanderthals, Robert Kunzig. Race Without Color, Jared Diamond. Digging Beneath Honolulu's Chinatown, Joseph Kennedy. 1491, Charles C. Mann. For Reasons Out of Our Hands, Joan Smith/Kocamahhul. Cultural Survival vs. Forced Assimilation: The Renewed War on Diversity, Jon Reyhner. Recording the Spirit World, Dorothy Harley Eber. Adventures in the Field and in the Locker Room, Mari Womack and Joan C. Barker.
2. Fieldwork Among the Familiar and the Strange.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty.
Epistemology: How You Know What You Know, Kenneth L. Feder. Are Ethnographies "Just So" Stories?, E. Paul Durrenberger. Filipinos Were My Teachers, Patricia Snyder Wiebust. Professional Football: An American Symbol and Ritual, William Arens. Kenya, Land of My Fathers: A Time Traveler in Kenya, Chapurukha M. Kusimba. Pastoral Nomadism and Gender, Susan Rasmussen.
3. Subsistence and Economics.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. The Hunters and gatherers of New Guinea, Paul Roscoe. Ashmounds and HilltopVillages: The Search for Early Agriculture in Southern India, Dorian Q. Fuller. Yanomamo: Varying Adaptations of Foraging Horticulturalists, Raymond B. Hames. Trickle-Down Theory, Andean Style, Paul Trawick.
4. Family, Marriage, and Kinship.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. The Disappearance of the Incest Taboo, Yehudi Cohen. Parallel Brides: For Some Families, Matchmaking is an Intricate Dance, Mustafa Turker Ersen. Family and Kinship in Village India, David W. McCurdy. Life Behind the Veil, Cherry Lindholm and Charles Lindholm. Brazil: Moving Targets, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Daniel Hoffman.
5. Realities of Gender.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Biological Influences on Gender, Jean Stockard and Miriam M. Johnson. Woman the Hunter: The Agta, Agnes Estioko-Griffen and P. Bion Griffin. Working Girl, Lynn A. Meisch. Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea, Gilbert H. Herdt. The War Against Boys, Christina Hoff Sommers.
6. Politics: Who Gets What, When, and How.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Social Classification of Hunter-Gatherers: An Evolutionary Perspective, Hitoshi Watanabe. Maroon Autonomy in Jamaica, Kenneth M. Bilby. War, Factionalism, and the State of Afghanistan, Nazif M. Shahrani. Negotiated and Mediated Meanings: Ethnicity and Politics in Israeli Newspapers, Daniel Lefkowitz. Genesis of Suicide Terrorism, Scott Altran. Humanitarianism, Terrorism, and the Transnational Border, Michael Humphrey.
7. Religion, Religious Specialists, and Religious Ritual.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Shamanism in Northwest Australia, Andreas Lommel and David Mowaljarlai. Myths and Monsters: Decoding Ritual Images of a Mysterious Ancient American Religion, Ales W. Barker. A Reverence for Cows, Doranne Jacobson. Be Holy For I Am Holy: Food, Politics, and the Teaching of Judaism, Jay M. Eidelman. The Ethnomethodology of Ritual Invention in Contemporary Culture- Two Pagan and Christian Cases, Jone Salomonsen. Possession States Across the World: An Anthropological Approach, Kevin Rafferty.
8. Symbolic Expression.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Reading the Minds of Rock Artists, David Whitley. A Painted Land, Margaret Grove. Re-Telling One's Own: Storytelling Among the Apsaalooke (Crow Indians), Rodney Frey. The Arts of Memory: Icon and Structural Violence in a Dublin `Underclass' Housing Estate, A. Jamie Sardis and Brendan Bartley. Native Burials: Human Rights and Sacred Bones, Edward Halealoha Ayau.
9. Globalization and Its Challenges
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Globalization North and South, Jan Nederveen Pieterse. Maori Sport and Cultural Identity in Australia, Paul Bergin. The Globally Distributed Team, Marietta L. Baba. The Price of Progress, John Bodley.
10. Solving Human Problems.
State of the Art/About the Articles, Dorothy Ukaegbu and Kevin Rafferty. Plan B: What is Going to Happen to My People?, Theodore E. Downing and Carmen Garcia-Downing. Tradition: Cultural Solutions to Human Needs, Jerry Moles. The Lakota Fund: Local Institutions & Access to Credit, Monica Terkildsen and Kathleen Pickering. The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery, Kevin Bales. Putting Anthropology to Work to Preserve Appalachian Heritage, Mary B. La Lone. Lifeskills and HIV/AIDS Education for Mekong Youth, Robert Bennoun and Prudence Borthwick.