Product Description: On October 15, 1964 Billy Mills became the only American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for the 10,000 meters. It was but one notable triumph in sports by a Native American. Yet, unlike Mills's achievement, most significant contributions from Native Americans have gone unheralded...read more

Product Description: This book, the result of a lifetime of listening and 30 plus years of research, focuses on the magic that is jazz, particularly the element of Tricksterism in the music. In some sense, anyone who is proficient at jazz has some element of Tricksterism, the ability to make something out of anything and to transform it in the process...read more

Product Description: This is an intriguing study describing the search for Italian American ethnic authenticity, the inevitable engagement with competing and occasionally conflicting group identities and how ethnic groups more or less successfully navigate and adapt to changing ecological circumstances...read more

Product Description: This collection of papers, presented at the 2011 American Anthropological Association meetings in Montreal, Canada, represent the beginning of the anthropological investigation of the way in which anthropologist have been portrayed in popular culture...read more

Product Description: This work grew out of the Northeast Popular Culture Conference at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire in October 2008. It presents material noting how American popular culture has had an influence throughout the world. Chapters range from Nigeria, Ghana, Japan, China and points in between...read more

Product Description: The Culture of Jazz is a collection of essays that view jazz from an anthropological perspective. It focuses on aspects of jazz culture and the ways in which jazz scrutinizes the American lifestyle. Jazz musicians filter their perspective on culture based on African roots...read more

Product Description: In Reflections on Theory and History in Anthropology, author Frank Salamone examines his more than 30 years of experience in the field of cultural anthropology and offers an optimistic, yet realistic, appraisal of the field's past, present, and future.

Product Description: As "visiting strangers," anthropologists find themselves immersed in the essential mysteries of the ethnographic experience: How can an academic drop into a small Nigerian village or a Himalayan hillside and find friendship as well as information? How can people cross language and cultural barriers? Can even the best-intentioned anthropologist bridge the gap between humanistic science and true friendship? These questions outline a multifaceted quandary, but the beauty of ethnography is that it proves that in the field, friendships do form and deepen...read more

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Product Description: Through research into the ethnic roots of his home town of Rochester, New York, this study by Dr Salamone enables the reader to understand the interplay of social, cultural, and historical forces in shaping a particular variate of Italian-American identity

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A collection of forty-two articles, Society, Culture, Leisure, and Play takes on different facets of leisure from the perspective of an anthropologist with almost thirty years experience in the field. The essays range in length and tone, and cover topics from adornment to weaving. The author goes into considerable depth while discussing music and the arts. Utilizing empirical observation and recent theories, the book is a sweeping overview of an integral part of culture. Anthropologists, students of sociology and culture, as well as the general reader, will be interested in Salamone's latest work. (view table of contents)

Some of the best scholars in the field of the anthropology of indigenous systems of theology such as Mary Douglas, Morton Klass, and Edith Turner are represented here. Explorations in Anthropology and Theology treats indigenous systems of religious thought, including 'popular' American secular rituals, with the respect and attention usually reserved for only the 'higher religions,' covering topics such as feminist spirituality, traditional religions and the impact of modernization, alternative approaches to the sacred, implications for fieldwork, and the relationship and relevance of theology and anthropology to one another. The result is a stimulating exploration of a new field of research that is still being shaped and defined, the anthropology of theology. Papers represent most of the major ethnographic areas of the world, including Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the United States and the Artic. Recommended for various courses in theology , anthropology of religion, symbolic anthropology, and fieldwork. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Scholars, especially Napoleon Chagnon, have portrayed the Yanomami as fierce people. Yanomami themselves resent that portrayal and state that they are no more fierce than those who label them. Moreover, a number of scholars argue that such a portrayal has had dire consequences for these Indian people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Anthropologists are called "visiting strangers" in one of the fourteen essays in this multicultural book, and that term captures the essential mystery of the ethnographic experience: how can an anthropologist drop into a small Nigerian village or a Himalayan hillside and find friendship as well as information? How can people cross language and cultural barriers? Maintain observer-observed, but also personal, relationships? It seems nearly impossible, but the beauty of ethnography is that the friendships form and deepen, as related in these essays...read more