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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Essay: What Is Real? | |
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| Reality as a Collective Hunch | |
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| Body Ritual among the Nacirema | |
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| The Nature of "Perspective" | |
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| Truth, Objectivity, and Agreement | |
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| The Search for Signs for Intelligent Life in the Universe | |
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| Essay: A Perspective for Understanding Self and Social Interaction | |
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| Humans as Symbolic Creatures | |
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| Essay: Shared Meaning as the Basis of Humanness | |
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| Naming | |
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| That Powerful Drop | |
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| A Clue to the Nature of Man: The Symbol | |
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| The Importance of the Symbol | |
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| Yes, Father-Sister | |
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| Language and Social Behavior | |
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| Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation | |
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| Language and Neurological Disorders | |
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| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | |
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| Language, Thought, and Culture | |
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| Metaphors We Live By | |
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| The Social Lens | |
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| Mindfulness and Mindlessness | |
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| Changes in Default Words and Images Engendered by Rising Consciousness | |
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| A Person Paper on Purity in Language | |
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| Racism in the English Language | |
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| The Virgin Martyrs | |
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| Realizaing Symbolic Order Through Interaction | |
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| Essay: Meaning is Negotiated through Interaction | |
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| Naming as an Interactional Process | |
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| Becoming a Marihuana User | |
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| Looks | |
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| Fear of Fallinig: Sluts | |
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| Projecting the Definition of the Situation | |
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| The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selection | |
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| Black Men and Public Space | |
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| The Madam as Teacher: The Training of House Prostitutes | |
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| What Does the Service Include? | |
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| Negotiating a Working Consensus | |
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| Behavior in Private Places: Sustaining Definitions of Reality in Gynecological Examinations | |
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| "Precarious Situations" in a Strip Club: Exotic Dancers and the Problem of Reality Maintenance | |
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| The Self as a Product of Interaction | |
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| The Self, the I, and the Me | |
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| Looking-Glass Self | |
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| The Production of Selves in Personal Relationships | |
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| Shooting an Elephant | |
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| Salvaging the Self | |
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| Creating the Ex-Role | |
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| The Social Construction of Reality | |
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| Essay: Building and Breaching Reality | |
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| A Theory of Reality | |
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| Five Features of Reality | |
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| A Conception of and Experiments with "Trust" as a Condition of Concerted Stable Actinos | |
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| The Social Construction of Unreality: A Case Study of a Family's Attribution of Competence to a Severely Retarded Child | |
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| Self-Fulfilling Prophecies | |
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| Self-Fulfilling Prophecies | |
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| When Belief Creates Reality: The Self-Fulfilling Impact of First Impressions on Social Interaction | |
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| Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expection and Pupils' Intellectual Development | |
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| On Being Sane in Insane Places | |
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| The Social Construction of the Cultural Status Quo | |
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| The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant Behavior | |
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| The Nudist Management of Respectability | |
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| The Persistence of Gender Inequality in Employment Settings | |
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| Practices of Truth-Finding in a Court of Law: The Case of Revised Stories | |
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| Ambiguity, Complexity, and Conflict | |
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| Essay: Boundaries and Contradictions | |
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| Contradictions and Conflict in Self-Production | |
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| Double-Consciousness and the Veil | |
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| Stephen Cruz | |
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| Growing Up with Privilege and Prejudice | |
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| A Player | |
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| He Defies You still: The Memoirs of a Sissy | |
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| Sexual Identification Is a Strange Thing | |
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| Identity, "Passing" and Subversion | |
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| Her Son/Daughter | |
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| Conflict and Change in Cultural Production | |
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| Maid in the U.S.A.: A Personal Narrative on the Development of a Research Problem | |
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| Talking Back | |
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| Because Silence is Costly | |
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| La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness | |
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| Ceremony | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |