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Conformity and conflict : readings in cultural anthropology / edited by James P. Spradley, David W. McCurdy.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston, MA : Little, Brown and co., c1977.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiii, 487 p. ; pbk ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.208/CON
Contents:
Pt I : Culture and the contemporary world.
Pt II : Culture. Shakespeare in the bush / Laura Bohannan -- Eating Christmas in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee -- Culture and adaptation in the desert / William I. Torry -- Cultural rules for cities : standing in line / Leon Mann.
Pt III : Fieldwork and ethics. Kapluna daughter : adopted by the Eskimo / Jean L. Briggs -- The medicine man : doctoring informants / David W. McCurdy -- Trouble in the tank : ethics in urban fieldwork / James P. Spradley -- Anthropologist : the myth teller / Miles Richardson.
Pt IV : Language and communication. The sounds of silence / Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall -- "Rapping" in the black ghetto / Thomas Kochman -- Cosmetics : the language of bodily adornment / Terence S. Turner -- Decoding the runner's wardrobe / Jeffrey E. Nash.
Pt V : Kinship and family. Matrilineal kinship : coming home to Bokelab / Michael A. Rynkiewich -- Uterine families and the women's community / Margery Wolf -- Family and kinship among black Americans / Charles V. Willie -- Sororities and the husband game / John Finley Scott.
Pt VI : Roles and groups. Male and female : the doctor-nurse game / Leonard I. Stein -- Only on Sundays : women's place in Greece / Muriel Dimen-Schein -- Reciprocal exploitation in and Indian-white community / Niels Winther Braroe -- Men at home : urban neighbors / Ruth Hill Useem, John Useem, and Duane L. Gibson.
Pt VII : Economic systems. The hunters : scarce resources in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee -- Penny capitalism on an urban streetcorner / Elliot Liebow -- The impact of money on an African subsistence economy / Paul J. Bohannan -- Reciprocity in the marketplace : tipping in an urban nightclub / Katherine Carlson.
Pt VIII : Law and politics. Yanomamö : the fierce people / Napoleon A. Chagnon -- Beating the drunk charge / James P. Spradley -- Poor man, rich man, big-man chief / Marshall D. Sahlins -- Oil in Santa Barbara and power in America / Harvey Molotch.
Pt IX : Religion, magic, and world view. When technology fails : magic and religion in New Guinea / Philip L. Newman -- Baseball magic / George G. Gmelch -- Urban witches / Edward J. Moody -- The Maya bonesetter as a sacred specialist / Benjamin D. Paul.
Pt X : Culture change. Steel axes for stone-age Australians / Lauriston Sharp -- Cargo cults / Peter M. Worsley -- Highways and the future of the Yanomamö / Shelton H. Davis -- Return to Manus / Margaret Mead.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Pt I : Culture and the contemporary world.

Pt II : Culture.
Shakespeare in the bush / Laura Bohannan --
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee --
Culture and adaptation in the desert / William I. Torry --
Cultural rules for cities : standing in line / Leon Mann.

Pt III : Fieldwork and ethics.
Kapluna daughter : adopted by the Eskimo / Jean L. Briggs --
The medicine man : doctoring informants / David W. McCurdy --
Trouble in the tank : ethics in urban fieldwork / James P. Spradley --
Anthropologist : the myth teller / Miles Richardson.

Pt IV : Language and communication.
The sounds of silence / Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall --
"Rapping" in the black ghetto / Thomas Kochman --
Cosmetics : the language of bodily adornment / Terence S. Turner --
Decoding the runner's wardrobe / Jeffrey E. Nash.

Pt V : Kinship and family.
Matrilineal kinship : coming home to Bokelab / Michael A. Rynkiewich --
Uterine families and the women's community / Margery Wolf --
Family and kinship among black Americans / Charles V. Willie --
Sororities and the husband game / John Finley Scott.

Pt VI : Roles and groups.
Male and female : the doctor-nurse game / Leonard I. Stein --
Only on Sundays : women's place in Greece / Muriel Dimen-Schein --
Reciprocal exploitation in and Indian-white community / Niels Winther Braroe --
Men at home : urban neighbors / Ruth Hill Useem, John Useem, and Duane L. Gibson.

Pt VII : Economic systems.
The hunters : scarce resources in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee --
Penny capitalism on an urban streetcorner / Elliot Liebow --
The impact of money on an African subsistence economy / Paul J. Bohannan --
Reciprocity in the marketplace : tipping in an urban nightclub / Katherine Carlson.

Pt VIII : Law and politics.
Yanomamö : the fierce people / Napoleon A. Chagnon --
Beating the drunk charge / James P. Spradley --
Poor man, rich man, big-man chief / Marshall D. Sahlins --
Oil in Santa Barbara and power in America / Harvey Molotch.

Pt IX : Religion, magic, and world view.
When technology fails : magic and religion in New Guinea / Philip L. Newman --
Baseball magic / George G. Gmelch --
Urban witches / Edward J. Moody --
The Maya bonesetter as a sacred specialist / Benjamin D. Paul.

Pt X : Culture change.
Steel axes for stone-age Australians / Lauriston Sharp --
Cargo cults / Peter M. Worsley --
Highways and the future of the Yanomamö / Shelton H. Davis --
Return to Manus / Margaret Mead.

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