Thinking Like an Anthropologist A Practical Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

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ISBN: 9780073195803

ISBN-10: 0073195804

ISBN-13: 9780073195803

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Omohundro

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This exciting new text teases out the common core of the cultural anthropological way of thinking, makes it explicit in a set of eleven questions, and uses those questions to enhance learning. Each question receives treatment in a brief chapter, accompanied by several exercises and classroom demonstrations. The textbook is intended to be accompanied by—and applied to—a reader, a few ethnographies, or a monograph with topical focus such as language, globalization, technology, art, or gender. The eleven questions that organize the text can be applied singly and cumulatively to address the cultures presented in the ethnographies or case studies chosen by each instructor. A comprehensive guide…

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List price: $149.33
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 1/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

John Omohundro is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology at SUNY Potsdam. He has taught introductory cultural anthropology for 32 years, receiving the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1985 and the Honors Professor of the Year Award in 2002. His research interests include ethnic relations, social networks, disaster impacts, and environmental anthropology. He has conducted research in Nevada, San Francisco, the Philippines, Newfoundland, and New York. Among his publications are Careers in Anthropology 2nd Edition (2002), Rough Food: Seasons of Subsistence in Northern Newfoundland (1994), and Chinese Merchant Families of Iloilo: Commerce and Kin… in a Central Philippine City (1981).



Thinking Like An Anthropologist:A Practical Introduction to Cultural Anthropology John T. Omohundro Suny Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Anthropology Suny Potsdam


Table of Contents


List of Figures


Using This Book: The Anthropological Questions Notes and Queries



Notes and Queries



The Anthropological Questions How This Book is Organized Anthropology and the Other Disciplines of Human Behavior What is Cultural Anthropology? The Topics of Cultural Anthropology Why Think Like an Anthropologist? Cultural Anthropology in Careers There's No Substitute for Experience Notes and Queries



Exercise 1: Who Are You? Exercise 2: Where are They? Exercise 3: What You Already Know Recommended Reading



What is Culture? The Conceptual Question 1-1 Fishy Culture



Overview A Definition of Culture Fishy Culture



Culture, Subculture, and Ethnic Group Culture and Race Race as a Cultural Construct The Characteristics of Culture As Cultures Change, "Culture" Changes What Isn't Culture? Summary Fishy Culture



Exercise 1: The Embarrassing Incident Exercise 2: The American Family Exercise 3: Being Multicultural Exercise 4: Race Classification Recommended Reading



How Do I Learn About Culture? The Naturalistic Question 2-1 Heavy Meddle



Overview Heavy Meddle



Can I Observe Without Disturbing? Fieldwork Informants Fieldwork's Rewards Fieldwork Methods Anthropology: The Science of Culture? Ethical Principles That Guide Anthropologists How Do We Enforce Ethical Research? What Ethical Guidelines Should Students Follow? Summary Heavy Meddle



Exercise 1: Analyzing an Ethnography Exercise 2: Participant Observation Exercise 3: The Impact of the Observer Exercise 4: Inferring Culture From Behavior Recommended Reading



What is the Context for This Practice or Idea? The Holistic Question 3-1 Everything Relates to Potatoes



Overview Everything Relates to Potatoes



A Holistic Image of Culture Types of Holistic Connections Cultures in Regional Context Culture in Scalar Context Holism in the Field Kinship, Holistically Speaking Economics, Holistically Speaking Challenges of Holism Summary Everything Relates to Potatoes



Exercise 1: Economics in Ethnography Exercise 2: Reciprocity Exercise 3: Holistic Approaches to Jokes Exercise 4: Sociobiography: A Life in Cultural Context Exercise 5: What Are Kin Terms Connected To? Recommended Reading



Do Other Societies Also Do Something Like This? The Comparative Question 4-1 Big Parties



Overview Big Parties



How Shall We Compare? What We Can Learn by Comparing This Culture to Others Challenges of Comparison: Will "We Murder to Dissect"? Shall I Take the Participant's or the Comparativist's Perspective? Summary Big Parties



Exercise 1: Comparing Two Cultures Exercise 2: Q-mode and R-mode Comparisons Exericse 3: Emic and Etic Perspectives Exercise 4: A Comparison of 400 Cultures Exercise 5: Time Budgets - Yours and the Machiguengans' Recommended Reading






Overview A Chicken-and-Egg Story



Cultures Have Histories The Temporal Question Has a History Asking the Temporal Question Was the Change Intentional? Sources and Methods What Causes Culture Change? Thinking About the Future Summary A Chicken-and-Egg Story



Exercise 1: Enduring Histo