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This supplementary reader is composed of both classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the significant contributions that cultural anthropologists make; the emphasis is on the applicability of cultural anthropology to understanding and improving the present day human condition.
Contents
* Indicates a selection new to this edition BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1. Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy - Robert Root-Bernstein and Donald L. McEachron, 1982 2. What are Friends For? - Barbara Smuts, 1987 3. What's Love Got to Do With It? - Meredith Small, 1992 4. *Mothers and Others - Sarah Blaffer Hardy, 2001 5. *Once We Were Not Alone - Ian Tattersall, 2000 6. Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs and Our Health - Elizabeth D. Whitaker, 1998 7. *Slumber's Unexplored Landscape - Bruce Bower, 1999 8. Ancient Genes and Modern Health - S. Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner - 1985 9. The Tall and the Short of It - Barry Bogin, 1998 ARCHAEOLOGY 10. *Battle of the Bones - Bonnichsen and Schneider, 2000 11. Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race - Jared Diamond, 1987 12. New Women of The Ice Age - Heather Pringle, 1998 13. Disease & Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds - Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos,1985 14. The Secrets of Ancient Tiwanaku Are Benefiting Today's Bolivia - Baird Straughan ,1991 15. Easter's End - Jared Diamond, 1995 16. Profile of an Anthropologist -- From Tikal to Tucson: Today's Garbage Is Tomorrow's Artifact - (Anthropology Newsletter), 1981 17. Food Waste Behavior in an Urban Population - Gail G. Harrison, William L. Rathje, and Wilson W. Hughes, 1975 18. Dawn of a New Stone Age Eye Surgery - Payson D. Sheets, 1987 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE AND FIELDWORK 19. Body Ritual among the Nacirema - Horace Miner, 1956 20. Letter from Peri - Manus II - Margaret Mead, 1970 21. Crack in Spanish Harlem - Philippe Bourgois, 1989 22. Tricking and Tripping : Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS - Claire E. Sterk, 2000 23. Profile -- Corporate Anthropologists - Jennifer J. Laabs, 1992 CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION 24. Shakespeare in the Bush - Laura Bohannan - 1966 25. *To Give Up Words: Silence in Western Apache Culture Keith Basso, 1970 26. A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication - Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker, 1982 27. Suite for Ebony and Phonics - John R. Rickford, 1997 CULTURE AND FOOD 28. You Are What you Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement - Jill Dubisch, 1981 29. Chinese Table Manners: You are How You Eat - Eugene Cooper, 1986 30. Culture and the Evolution of Obesity - Peter J. Brown, 1991 RACE AND ETHNICITY 31. Race without Color - Jared Diamond, 1994 32. Official Statement on "Race" - American Anthropological Association, 1997 33. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh, 1988 34. Of Kwanzaa, Cinco De Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education - Deborah Freedman Lustig, 1977 ECONOMY AND BUSINESS 35. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari - Richard Borshay Lee, 1969 36. Strings Attached - Lee Cronk, 1989 37. The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution - Gerald F. Murray, 1987 38. Using Cultural Skills for Cooperative Advantage in Japan - Richard H. Reeves-Ellington, 1993 39. *Profile - Anthropology in the Technology Industry - Greg Guest, 2001 GENDER AND SOCIALIZATION 40. *Our Babies, Ourselves - Meredith F. Small, 1997 41. Society and Sex Roles - Ernestine Friedl, 1978 42. Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man's Profession - Joan Cassell, 1997 KINSHIP, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY 43. When Brothers Share a Wife - Melvyn C. Goldstein, 1987 44. Law, Customs & Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India - John van Willigen and V. C. Channa, 1991 45. *African Polygyny: Family Values and Contemporary Changes, 1996 POLITICS, LAW, AND WARFARE 46. Profile of an Anthropologist - Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service - Jeffery L. MacDonald, 1996 47. The Kpelle Moot - James L. Gibbs, Jr., 1963 48. Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands - Aaron Podolefsky, 1984 RELIGION, RITUAL, AND CURING 49. *The Power of Islam - Lincoln Keiser, 1993 50. Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies - Wade Davis, 1985 51. AIDS as Human Suffering - Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman, 1989 CULTURAL CHANGE AND GLOBALIZATION 52. *Grappling with the "Female Circumcision" Controversy - Ellen Gruenbaum, 2001 53. Advertising and Global Culture - Noreene Janus, 1983 54. *How Sushi Went Global - Theodore C. Bestor, 2000 55. The Price of Progress - John H. Bodley, 1990 * Indicates a selection new to this edition this edition
