Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Introductory: What Is Distinctive about Anthropology?*1. Laura Nader, Anthropology! Distinguished Lecture – 20002. Marion Benedict, Fact Versus Fiction: An Ethnographic Paradox Set in the Seychelles3. William Klausner, Going Native?*4. Gregory Starrett, Culture Never Dies: Anthropology at Abu Ghraib
Part 2: Basic Concepts: What Is the Meaning of Culture?*5. Mahmood Mamdani: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism6. Lynn Morgan, When Does Life Begin? A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Personhood of Fetuses and Young Children*7. Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture*8. Doing Fieldwork – Jane Mulcock, Ethnography in Awkward Spaces: An Anthropology of Cultural Borrowing
Part 3: Communication: What Is the Relationship Between Language and Culture?9. William M. O’Barr and John M. Conley, When a Juror Watches a Lawyer10. Salikoko Mufwene, Forms of Address: How Their Social Functions May Vary*11. Jane Hill, Language, Race, and White Public Space*12. Doing Fieldwork: Jacqueline Urla, Euskara: The ‘Terror’ of a European Minority Language
Part 4: Socialization: How do People Learn and Experience Their Culture?13. Amparo B. Ojeda, Growing Up American: Doing the Right Thing14. Alma Gottlieb, The Anthropologist as Mother: Reflections on Childbirth Observed and Children Experienced15. Emily Martin, Flexible Survivors
Part 5: Ecology: How do People Relate to Nature?16. Daniel Stiles, Nomads on Notice*17. Paul Sillitoe, Contested Knowledge, Contingent Classification: Animals in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea*18. Marcus Colchester, Conservation Policy and Indigenous Peoples
Part 6: Economics: How do People Make a Living?19. Sean Cush McNamara, Learning How to Bribe a Policeman20. Philippe Bourgois, Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City21. Richard Sennett, Cities Without Care or ConnectionPart 7: Gender and Sexuality: How do Women and Men Relate to Each Other?22. Roger Lancaster, The Place of Anthropology in a Public Culture Shaped by Bioreductivism*23. Dave Bennett, Hanky-Panky and Spanky-Wanky: Sex and the Single Boy*24. Anthropology and Public Debate: Gay Marriage, Peter Wood vs. Ellen Lewin*25. Doing Fieldwork: David Houston: Are we There Yet? Getting to the Field
Part 8: Marriage and Kinship: What Does It Mean to Be in a Family?26. Serena Nanda, Arranging a Marriage in India27. Brett Williams, Why Migrant Women Feed Their Husbands Tamales: Foodways as a Basis for a Revisionist View of Tejano Family Life28. Lu Yuan and Sam Mitchell, Land of the Walking Marriage29. Timothy Egan, The Persistence of Polygamy30. Doing Fieldwork: Thomas Maschio, The Refrigerator and American Ideas of ‘Home’
Part 9: Collective Identities: How do People Express Status and Group Membership?*31. Matthew Gutmann, For Whom the Taco Bells Toll: Popular Responses to NAFTA South of the Border*32. Brett Williams, Owning Places and Buying Time: Class, Culture, and Stalled Gentrification33. Alex de Waal, The Genocidal State34. Doing Fieldwork: Elizabeth Garland, An Anthropologist Learns the Value of FearPart 10: Politics: How Do People Exercise Power Over Each Other?35. Clifford D. Shearing and Philip C. Stenning, Say ‘Cheese!’ The Disney Order that is not so Mickey Mouse36. Whitney Azoy, Waaseta (Personal Connections)*37. Pierre Van Den Berghe, The Modern State: Nation-Builder or Nation-Killer?38. Neil L. Whitehead and R. Brian Ferguson, Deceptive Stereotypes about ‘Tribal Warfare’39. Doing Fieldwork: Andrew Cornish: Participant Observation on a Motorcycle
Part 11: Religion: How Do We Make Sense of Peoples Beliefs and Ritual Practices?40. Isak Niehaus, Witchcraft in Anthropological Perspective41. Silvia Rodgers, Feminine Power at Sea42. Sian Sullivan, On Dance and Difference: Bodies, Movement and Experience in Khoesan Trance-Dancing – Perceptions of ‘A Raver’*43. Anthropology and Public Debate: Understanding 9/11,Lionel Tiger vs. William O. BeemanPart 12: Change: What Does it Mean to Modernize?*44. James Brain, The Ugly American Revisited45. James Ferguson with Larry Lohmann, The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘Development’ and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho46. Frederique Appfel-Marglin, Counter-Development in the Andes47. Doing Fieldwork: Alex de Waal: In the Disaster Zone – Anthropologists and the Ambiguity of Aid
Part 13: Old Issues, New Contexts: What Does the Future Hold for Anthropology?48. Steven Rubenstein, Shuar Migrants and Shrunken Heads Face to Face in a New York Museum*49. Faye Ginsburg, The Anthropology of Abortion Activism50. Anthropology and Public Debate: Anthropology and the ‘War on Terror’, David Price vs. Murray Wax and Felix Moos*51. Ellen Ullman, The Museum of Me
Appendix:Personal Pathways: Rob Welsch, The Pathways of an AnthropologistPersonal Pathways: Glenn McRae, A Career in WastePersonal Pathways: Kenneth MartyPersonal Pathways: Daniella BrancaforteGlossaryIndex*Indicates a new reading.
