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Contents               Preface World Map and Geographical Placement of Readings   ONE Culture and Ethnography                       1          Ethnography and Culture                                   James P. Spradley                         To discover culture, the ethnographer must learn from the informant as a student. 2          Eating Christmas in the Kalahari                                    Richard Borshay Lee                         The “generous” gift of a Christmas ox involves the anthropologist in a classic case of                        cross-cultural misunderstanding. 3          Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS                             Claire E. Sterk                         Fieldwork among urban prostitutes means doing ethnography under difficult but, in the                          end, manageable circumstances. 4       Nice Girls Don’t Talk to Rastas            [Revised]                         George Gmelch                         Interaction between a U.S. student and a Rastafarian illustrates the destructive power of                        naïve realism in the fieldwork setting.    TWO             Language and Communication   [Revised]                    5       Shakespeare in the Bush                                   Laura Bohannan                         Cross-cultural communication breaks down when an anthropologist attempts to translate                         the meaning of Hamlet to the Tiv. 6.      Whorf Revisited: You Are What You Speak      [NEW]                                               Guy Deutscher                         New evidence supports Benjamin Lee Whorf’s contention that peoples’ mother tongue can                         shape their experience of the world. 7.         Managing Meaning: The Military Name Game                           Sarah Boxer                         To frame the meaning of its military operations, U.S. armed forces try to name them                         positively without offending anyone. 8          Conversation Style: Talking on the Job                          Deborah Tannen                         On the job, men and women use distinctive conversation styles to ask for help, leading them to                         evaluate performance and character differently.                 THREE             Subsistence and Ecology           9          The Hunters: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari                         Richard Borshay Lee                                       !Kung and other foragers traditionally worked less and ate better than many other people                         with more “advanced” food producing techniques. Today, however, their survival depends                         more on drilling wells and keeping cattle than on collecting wild foods. 10        Eskimo Science          [NEW]                                                            Richard Nelson                         The knowledge developed by Eskimos to hunt successfully contains the same basic principles                        that underlie a more formally structured scientific method. 11        Domestication and the Evolution of Disease                         Jared Diamond                                   Herd animal diseases that evolved to infect humans have ended up killing millions of people                         in the old and new world. 12        Forest Development the Indian Way     [Revised]                                            Richard K. Reed                         South American governments could learn much about tropical forest development from the                        Amazonian Indians who live there.   FOUR             Economic Systems                   13        Reciprocity and the Power of Giving                           Lee Cronk                         Gifts not only function to tie people together, they may also be used to “flatten” an opponent and control                        the behavior of others. 14        Poverty, Office Work, and the Crack Alternative                                    Philippe Bourgois             Poor, uneducated Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem feel that the risks they run selling drugs are preferable             to the disrespect they encounter as low-wage employees in New York’s financial and service companies. 15        Cocaine and the Economic Deterioration of Bolivia                                            Jack Weatherford                         The world market for cocaine robs Bolivian villages of their men and causes problems for health, nutrition,                         transportation, and family. 16        Malawi versus the World Bank                                     Sonia Patten                         Malawi government’s successful state subsidized fertilizer program challenges the World Bank and                        IMF’s insistence on market-driven agricultural programs.       FIVE Kinship and Family                   17        Mother’s Love: Death without Weeping                                    Nancy Scheper-Hughes                         Close mother-child bonds suffered in the presence of high infant mortality in a Brazilian shantytown                         although recent changes have reduced the problem to some degree. 18        Family and Kinship in Village India                                            David W. McCurdy                         Kinship still organizes the lives of Bhil villagers despite economic opportunities that draw people away                         from the community and dependence on relatives. 19        Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife                                    Melvyn C. Goldstein                         By jointly marrying one woman, Tibetan brothers preserve family resources and the “good life.” 20        Uterine Families and the Women’s Community                          Margery Wolf                         To succeed in a traditional patrilineal family, a Chinese woman had to create her own informal uterine                         family inside her husband’s household.   SIX             Identity, Roles, and Groups                   21        You@Work: Jobs, Identity, and the Internet     [NEW]                                             Brenda Mann                            Today’s U.S. job mobility requires “branding” one’s identity through careful use of the Internet. 22        The Opt Out Phenomenon:  Women, Work, and Identity in America   [Revised and retitled]                    Dianna Shandy                         Why were young, educated professional women leaving high-paying jobs for a life at home and what                        difference has today’s tough economy made? 23      Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?  [NEW]                               Lila Abu-Lughod                         Americans should work for justice in the world, not save Muslim women from wearing burqas or                        following their Islamic religion. 24        Mixed Blood                                       Jefferson M. Fish                         A woman can change her race from black to “brunette” by taking a plane from New York to Brazil. SEVEN             Law and Politics           25        Cross-Cultural Law: The Case of the Gypsy Offender                           Anne Sutherland                         Legal cultures clash when a young Gypsy is convicted of using someone else’s social security number                        to apply for a car loan. 26        Life without Chiefs                                            Marvin Harris                         Small societies based on reciprocal and redistributive economic exchange can do without officials. 27        The Founding Indian Fathers                             Jack Weatherford                         Although their contribution goes unrecognized, Indian, especially Iroquoian, political structure may                        have served as a model that helped to produce a United States federal government       EIGHT             Religion, Magic, and World View         28        Taraka’s Ghost                         StanleyA. Freed and Ruth S. Freed                         A woman relieves her anxiety and gains family support when a friend’s ghost possesses her. 29        Baseball Magic  [Revised]                         George Gmelch                         American baseball players from the games introduction to today employ magical practices as they                        try to deal with the uncertainty of their game. 30        Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage                                 Jill Dubisch                         An annual ritual motorcycle pilgrimage from Los Angles to Washington, DC personally transforms                        the Vietnam veterans and others who ride in it. 31        Body Ritual Among the Nacirema                                 Horace Miner                         The Nacirema display a complex array of body rituals aimed at achieving health and beauty.   NINE             Globalization                 32        How Sushi Went Global           [Brought back from previous edition]                                Theodore C. Bestor                         International interdependence between tuna fishermen and sushi as a Japanese culinary style                         becomes popular in a globalized world. 33        Village Walks: Tourism and Globalization among the Tharu of Nepal    [NEW}              Arjun Guneratne and Kate Bjork                 Advertised as a primitive tribe, Tharu villagers endure tours that falsely treat them as part of the                 Chitwan National Forest’s natural history and have responded by building a museum to separate their                 past from the present. 34        The Road to Refugee Resettlement       [Revised]                         Dianna Shandy                         Nuer refugees must develop the skill and determination to pass through a series of bureaucratic                        hurdles to reach and adjust to life in the United States. 35        Global Women in the New Economy                                           Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild                         Millions of women migrate from poor to wealthy nations serving as nannies, maids, and sex workers. T                        hey send money home but find it hard to separate from their countries and families.   TEN             Culture Change and Applied Anthropology       xxx 36        Suggestions for Developers: The Peace Corps Problems in Botswana      [NEW}                                Hoyt S. Alverson                             An anthropologist discovers why some Peace Corps volunteers fail to complete their assignments in rural                             Botswana, citing perceptions of their role and naïve realism as the basic problems. 37        Medical Anthropology: Leprosy on the Ganges      [NEW]                           Ron Barrett                Indians who contract leprosy find themselves stigmatized for life, causing them to delay treatment or amplify symptoms to                enhance begging. 38        Public Interest Ethnography: Women’s Prisons and Health Care in California  [NEW]                                Rachael Stryker                             Student ethnographers uncover institutional health care problems at two women’s prisons in California and                              suggest changes that result in a revision of state policy. 39        Using Anthropology                                          David McCurdy                                  Professional anthropologists do everything from ethnographies of automobile production lines to famine relief,                         but even the neophyte may be able to use the ideas of culture and ethnography to succeed in the workplace. 40        Career Advice for Anthropology Undergraduates                                              John T. Omohundro                         The ability to translate useful anthropological skills into “resume speak” is one way for anthropology graduates                        to find employment. Glossary        Index