Classic readings in cultural anthropology
By: [compiled by] Gary Ferraro
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Wadsworth
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781111297923
Subjects: Ethnology; Ethnic groups
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Body ritual among the Nacirema  -- Horace Miner; title: Not a real fish : the ethnographer as inside outsider  -- Roger M. Keesing; title: Rapport-talk and report-talk  -- Deborah Tannen; title: The sounds of silence  -- Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall; title: The worst mistake in the history of the human race  -- Jared Diamond; title: The domestication of wood in Haiti : a case study in applied evolution  -- Gerald F. Murray; title: Arranging a marriage in India  -- Serena Nanda; title: Death without weeping  -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes; title: Society and sex roles  -- Ernestine Friedl; title: Women and men in !Kung society  -- Marjorie Shostak; title: The Kpelle moot  -- James L. Gibbs Jr.; title: Customary law development in Papua New Guinea  -- Richard Scaglio; title: The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events  -- E.E. Evans-Pritchard; title: Baseball magic  -- George Gmelch; title: The price of progress  -- John Bodley; title: The glaciers of the Andes are melting : indigenous and anthropological knowledge merge in restoring water resources -- Inge Bolin.