readings in cultural anthropology McCurdy, David W. text bibliography mau Boston, MA Little, Brown and co. c1977 1977 3rd ed. monographic eng

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xiii, 487 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm. 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. edited by James P. Spradley, David W. McCurdy. Includes bibliographical references. Ethnology Social history 301.208/CON 76046799 DLC 770307 20130318110242.0 1763069