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

By: Haviland, William A [author]

Contributor(s): Gordon, Robert J. [co-author] | Vivanco, Luis A [co-author]

Language: English Publisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2002Edition: Third editionDescription: xxiv, 258 pages : 1 map ; 28 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0767405137 ; 9780767405133Subject(s): EthnologyDDC classification: 306

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.

Summary: Recognizing the centrality of fieldwork to anthropological knowledge, this book includes essays that deal with the nature and dilemmas of fieldwork and is useful for cultural anthropology courses. These essays consider the changing status of the field, the nature of anthropological learning in the field, and ethical issues and dilemmas.

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Includes glossary and index.

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.

Recognizing the centrality of fieldwork to anthropological knowledge, this book includes essays that deal with the nature and dilemmas of fieldwork and is useful for cultural anthropology courses. These essays consider the changing status of the field, the nature of anthropological learning in the field, and ethical issues and dilemmas.

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