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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Studing Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Theoretical Issues | |
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| Should Anthropology Stop Tyring to Model Itself on Sciences? | |
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| Yes: from The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 1973) | |
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| No: from "Godzilla Meet New Age Anthropology: Facing the Postmodernist Challenge to a Science Culture," Europaea (1995) | |
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| Was Margearet Mead's Fieldwork on Samoan Adolescents Fundamentally Flawed? | |
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| Yes: from Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth (Harvard University Press, 1983) | |
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| No: from Samoan Village: Then and Now, 2d ed. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992) | |
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| Should Anthropologists Abandon the Concept of Culture? | |
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| Yes: from "Writing Against Culture," in Richard G. Fox, ed., Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present (School of American Research Press, 1991) | |
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| No: from "Writing For Culture: Why a Successful Concept Should Not Be Discarded," Current Anthropology (Supplement, February 1999) | |
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| Do Native Peoples Today Invent Their Traditions? | |
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| Yes: from "Creating the Past: Custom and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific," The Contemporary Pacific (Spring/Fall 1989) | |
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| No: from "Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle," The Contemporary Pacific (Spring 1991) | |
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| Some Specific Issues in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Is Ebonics (Black English) a Distinct Language from Standard English? | |
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| Yes: from "What Is black English? What Is Ebonics?" in Theresa Perry and Lisa Delpit, eds., The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children (Beacon Press, 1998) | |
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| No: from "Wasting Energy on an Illusion," The Black Scholar (vol. 27, no. 1, 2001) | |
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| Are San Hunter-Gatherers Basically Pastoralists Who Have Lost Their Herds? | |
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| Yes: from "Advent and Course of Pastoralism in the Kalahari," Science (December 19, 1986) | |
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| No: from The Dobe Ju/'hoansi, 3rd ed. (Wadsworth, 2003) | |
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| Does the Natural-Supernatural Distinction Exist in All Cultures? | |
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| Yes: "The Supernatural Is Everywhere: Defining Qualities of Religion in Melanesia and Beyond," Anthropological Forum (November 2003) | |
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| No: from "Creating a Second-Storey Woman: Introduced Delineation between Natural and Supernatural in Melanesia," Anthropological Forum (November 2003) | |
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| Is It Natural for Adopted Children to Want to Find Out About Their Birth Parents? | |
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| Yes: from Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness (Basic Books, 1994) | |
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| No: from "Anthropology and Adoptioin," American Anthropologist (March 1994) | |
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| Do Sexually Egalitarian Societies Exist? | |
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| Yes: from Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society (Columbia University Press, 1993) | |
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| No: from "Is Patriarchy Inevitable?" National Review (November 11, 1996) | |
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| Has the Islamic Revolution in Iran Subjugated Women? | |
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| Yes: from "Feminism and Islam in Iran," in Deniz Kandiyoti, ed., Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives (Syracuse University Press, 1996) | |
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| No: from "Sources of Female Power in Iran," in Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl, eds., In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Syracuse University Press, 1994) | |
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| Are Yanomami Violence and Warfare Natural Human Efforts to Maximize Reproductive Fitness? | |
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| Yes: from "Reproductive and Somatic Conflicts of Interest in the Genesis of Violence and Warfare Among Tribesmen," in Jonathan Haas, ed., The Anthropology of War (Cambridge University Press, 1995) | |
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| No: from "A Savage Encounter: Western Contact and the Yanomami War Complex," in R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead, eds., War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare (School of American Research Press, 2000) | |
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| Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable? | |
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| Yes: from "Some Unconscious Aspects of Ethnic Violence in India," in Veena Das, ed., Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia (Oxford University Press, 1990) | |
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| No: from "The Manipulation of Ethnicity: From Ethnic Cooperation to Violence and War in Yugoslavia," Ethnic and Racial Studies (November 2000) | |
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| Is Islam a Single Universal Tradition? | |
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| Yes: from Islam and Muslim History in South Asia (Oxford University Press, 2000) | |
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| No: from "For a Folk-Theology and Theological Anthropology of Islam," Contributions to Indian Sociology (July-December, 1984) | |
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| Do Some Illnesses Exist Only Among Members of a Particular Culture? | |
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| Yes: from "Phii Pob: Spirit Possession in Rural Thailand," in William Lebra, ed., Culture-bound Syndromes, Ethnopsychiatry, and Alternate Therapies, vol. 4 of Mental Health Research in Asia and the Pacific (The University of Hawaii Press, 1976) | |
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| No: from Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective (Yale University Press, 1995) | |
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| Do Museums Misrepresent Ethnic Communities Around the World? | |
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| Yes: from The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Harvard University Press, 1988) | |
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| No: from "Mythologies of Tribal Art," African Arts (Summer 1995) | |
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| Ethics in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Did Napoleon Chagnon and Other Researchers Adversely Affect the Yanomami Indians of Venezuela? | |
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| Yes: from The Yanomami and the Ethics of Anthropological Practice (Cornell University Latin American Studies Program, 2001) | |
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| No: from Preliminary Report, http://www.anth.ucsb,edu/ucsbpreliminaryreport.pdf (Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara) | |
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| Should Anthropologists and Linguists Be Concerned about Losing Endangered Languages? | |
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| Yes: from "Endangered Languages," Language (March 1992) | |
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| No: from "Another View of Endangered Languages," Language (December 1992) | |
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| Should Anthropologists Work to Eliminate the Practice of Female Circumcision? | |
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| Yes: from "Ethical Considerations in Anthropology and Archaeology, or Relativism and Justice for All," Journal of Anthropological Research (Spring 1997) | |
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| No: from "Female Circumcision in Africa: The Dialectics of Equality," in Richard R. Randolph, David M. Schneider, and May N. Diaz, eds., Dialectics and Gender: Anthropological Approaches (Westview Press, 1988) | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |