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Tables of Contents for Talking About People
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
xvii
Concordance with the Major Textbooks
xxiii
What is Distinctive about Anthropology?
1
23
Anthropological Perspectives on Contemporary Human Problems
4
11
Fact versus Fiction: An Ethnographic Paradox Set in the Seychelles
15
4
Going Native?
19
3
Personal Pathways: Robert L. Welsch, The Pathways of an Anthropologist
22
2
What Is the Meaning of Culture?
24
23
Cultural Survival on ``cultural survival''
26
2
Loading the Bases: How Our Tribe Projects Its Own Image into the National Pastime
28
7
When Does Life Begin? A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Personhood of Fetuses and Young Children
35
12
What Is the Relationship between Language and Culture?
47
14
When a Juror Watches a Lawyer
49
4
Forms of Address: How Their Social Functions May Vary
53
3
What Is, and Isn't, in a Word
56
2
Language and Social Identity
58
3
How Do People Learn and Experience Their Culture?
61
17
Growing Up American: Doing the Right Thing
63
4
The Anthropologist as Mother: Reflections on Childbirth Observed and Childbirth Experienced
67
7
Flexible Survivors
74
4
How Do People Adapt to Nature?
78
14
Nomads on Notice
80
3
A View from the Headwaters
83
4
A Taste of History
87
4
Personal Pathways: Amy Trubek, ``Food Is Good to Think''
91
1
How Do People Make a Living?
92
17
Learning How to Bribe a Policeman
94
3
Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City
97
8
Cities without Care or Connection
105
4
How Do Women and Men Relate to Each Other?
109
21
Arranging a Marriage in India
111
5
``Ladies'' behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror
116
5
Female Chiefs and Their Wives: Tradition and Modernity in Venda, South Africa
121
4
The Anthropologist's Public-Image Problem
125
3
Doing Fieldwork: David Houston, Are We There Yet? Getting to the Field
128
2
What Does It Mean to Be in a Family
130
18
Why Migrant Women Feed Their Husbands Tamales: Foodways as a Basis for a Revisionist View of Tejano Family Life
132
8
Land of the Walking Marriage
140
3
The Persistence of Polygamy
143
5
How Do People Express Status and Group Membership
148
24
The New Latin Labor
150
2
Owning Places and Buying Time: Class, Culture, and Stalled Gentrification
152
10
The Genocidal State
162
6
Doing Fieldwork: Elizabeth Garland, An Anthropologist Learns the Value of Fear
168
4
How Do People Control the Behavior of Others?
172
20
Say ``Cheese!'' The Disney Order That Is Not So Mickey Mouse
174
4
The Modern State: Nation-Builder or Nation-Killer?
178
9
Deceptive Stereotypes about ``Tribal Warfare''
187
3
Doing Fieldwork: Andrew Cornish, Participant Observation on a Motorcycle
190
2
How Do People Relate to the Supernatural?
192
16
Witchcraft in Anthropological Perspective
194
6
Feminine Power at Sea
200
4
Treating the Wounds of War: The Culture of Violence
204
4
How Do Cultures Change?
208
24
The Ugly American Revisited
210
4
The Anti-Politics Machine: ``Development'' and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
214
7
Counter-Development in the Andes
221
5
Doing Fieldwork: Alex de Waal, In the Disaster Zone-Anthropologists and the Ambiguity of Aid
226
4
Personal Pathways: Glenn McRae, A Career in Waste
230
2
What Does the Future Hold for Anthropology?
232
17
Visions of the Future: The Prospect for Reconciliation
234
4
The Anthropology of Abortion Activism
238
3
The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle
241
4
The Museum of Me
245
4
Glossary
249
4
Index
253