Conformity and Conflict: Pearson New International Edition
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Contents
Glossary
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 togeth
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.11.2013 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Harlow |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 217 x 275 mm |
| Gewicht | 840 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-292-02754-1 / 1292027541 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-292-02754-8 / 9781292027548 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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