Investigating Culture An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

Name: Investigating Culture An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780631222378

ISBN-10: 0631222375

ISBN-13: 9780631222378

Edition: 2004

Authors: Carol Lowery Delaney

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This work seeks to train students to think like anthropologists by encouraging them to compare their own cultural experience with that of anthropologists. It is divided into nine chapters that focus on some of the variety of ways that humans orient themselves.

Book details

List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Disorientation and Orientation


Selected Reading: Laura Bohannan, "Shakespeare in the Bush"


Exercises


Spatial Locations


Selected Reading: Sue Bridwell Beckham, "The American Front Porch: Women's Liminal Space"


Exercises


All We Have Is Time


Selected Reading: Ellen Goodman, "Time is for Savoring"


Selected Reading: Marshall Sahlins, "The Original Affluent Society"


Exercises


Language: We Are What We Speak


Selected Reading: Ursula LeGuin, "She Unnames Them"


Selected Reading: Alan Dundes, "Seeing is Believing"


Exercises


Relatives and Relations


Selected Reading: Penelope Eckert, "Symbols of Category Membership"


Selected Reading: A. M. Hocart, "Kinship Systems"


Exercises


Our Bodies, Our Selves


Selected Reading: Horace Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"


Exercises


Food For Thought


Selected Reading: Jill Dubisch, "You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement"


Exercises


Clothing Matters


Selected Reading: Julio Ramon Ribeyro, "Alienation"


Exercises


VIPs: Very Important People, Places, and Performances


Selected Reading: Clifford Geertz, "The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man"


Exercises


Index