This updated reader now includes a balance of classic and contemporary selections, all written by distinguished anthropologists. The previous editions' features are still present - including a clear, traditional organization, articles on both non-Western and Western societies, broad theoretical representations and helpful pedagogy. New to this edition are 16 topical articles on such topics as the impact of television on culture, women and work across cultures, differences in the ways boys and girls learn to communicate, managing child death in Brazil, birth as ritual in America, gypsies and health care, and an update on Gmelch's article on magic in baseball.

Product Description: The Cultural Experience has helped generations of undergraduates discover the excitement of ethnographic research through participation in relatively familiar cultures in North American society. Grounded in the interviewing-based ethnographic technique known as ethnosemantics, the latest edition continues to treat ethnography as a discovery process...read more

An account of the experiences of men who are repeatedly arrested for public drunkenness. This book challenges the idea that these men are simply rejects from society, who cannot organize their behavior by cultural traditions. Using the recently discovered methods of formal ethnographic analysis, the author presents this urban sub-culture as it relates to law enforcement agencies. Life in one jail is described in detail, showing how it changes the men's personal identities, teaching them the skills of this sub-culture and motivating them to adopt a nomadic way of life where drinking is a great social value. Originally published by Little, Brown and Company in 1970. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This lively, engaging book helps readers to see people of other cultures in their own terms as it incorporates these outstanding features: (a) discusses anthropological concepts and theory in the context of detailed and concrete ethnographic situations; (b) uses an inductive, problem-solving approach; readers are placed in puzzling situations that can be unraveled by using particular concepts; (c) focuses on the traditional concepts and assumptions of cultural anthropology; (d) incorporates data and examples from our own society (e...read more

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Product Description: What accounts for war? Why is there religion? Is human behavior inherited or learned? Does language shape perception? Why is incest taboo found in every society? What explains possession by evil spirits? Still a unique approach to the study of important, multi-sided issues in cultural anthropology, this collection of 27 readable essays gives a realistic picture of what the process of science is like, reveals the debate that surrounds ideas, and shows the development and refinement that take place when scientists challenge one another...read more

The parents of a child born without hearing describe their efforts to reach across the barrier of silence to teach their daughter to speak and enjoy a normal life

Product Description: Book by Rynkiewich, Michael A., Spradley, James P.

Product Description: A highly readable, in-depth study of a familiar female role in contemporary American society.

The existence of a national culture is illustrated in a collection of anthropological essays considering social values, beliefs, and practices in the United States. Bibliogs

Product Description: In vivid detail he describes his years of intermittent schooling, his entry into life in the fishing industry at the age of ten, his marriage, at thirteen, to a high-ranking Kwakiutl girl, and his life in a remote Indian village before moving to the Reserve...read more