About the Book
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.
Table of 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
About the Author :
Aaron Podolefsky is Provost and Vice President for Academic at the University of Northern Iowa, where he also served eight years as Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and also holds degrees in Liberal Studies and Mathematics. He has authored books on law in Papua New Guinea and crime prevention in urban America. Peter J. Brown is a Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, where he also holds a faculty position in the Rollins School of Public Health. He is currently director of Emory's Center for the Study of Health, Culture and Society. He has served as an officer in the Society for Medical Anthropology and was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Medical Anthropology for nine years. He has done research on a variety of topics, including malaria, tuberculosis, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, male gender and health, and the history of international health policy. He has been the recipient of three teaching awards. He has co-edited The Anthropology of Infectious Disease (with Marcia Inhorn) as well as the textbooks Applying Anthropology (sixth edition) and Applying Cultural Anthropology (fifth edition) (both with Aaron Podolefsky.
