Explorations in Cultural Anthropology

Colleen E. Boyd is associate professor of anthropology at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Luke Eric Lassiter is director of the Graduate Humanities Program and professor of Humanities and Anthropology at Marshall University Graduate College, South Charleston, West Virginia. He is the author of Invitation to Anthropology and co-editor of The Other Side of Middletown, among other works.

• PrefacePart I: CultureIntroduction and Discussion QuestionsSelection 1: Horace Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"Selection 2: Philip Bourgois, "Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City"Selection 3: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, "Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights"Part II: Fieldwork and EthnographyIntroduction and Discussion QuestionsSelection 4: Richard Lee, "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari"Selection 5: Juliana Flinn, "Reflections of a Shy Ethnographer: Foot-in-the-Mouth Is Not Fatal"Selection 6: Luke Eric Lassiter, "Doing Collaborative Ethnography"Selection 7: Michelle Anderson, Anne Kraemer, and Ashley Moore, "Getting a Living"Part III: Language, Communication, and Expressive CultureIntroduction and Discussion QuestionsSelection 8: Michael Agar, "The Circle"Selection 9: Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"Selection 10: Enid Schildkrout, "Body Art as Visual Language"Part IV: Socio-Economic and Political Systems in a Changing WorldIntroduction and Discussion QuestionsSelection 11: Ralph Linton, "One Hundred Per Cent American"Selection 12: Richard Kurin, "The Silk Road: The Making of a Global Cultural Economy"Selection 13: Conrad Kottak, "The Globalization of a Brazilian Fishing Community"Selection 14: Billy Evans Horse and Luke Eric Lassiter, "A Tribal Chair's Perspective on Inherent Sovereignty"Part V: Race and EthnicityIntroduction and Discussion QuestionsSelection 15: Jonathan M. Marks, "Scientific and Folk Ideas about Heredity"Selection 16: Melissa Schrift, "Melungeons and the Politics of Heritage"Selection 17: Amitai Etzioni, "Inventing Hispanics: A Diverse Minority Resists Being Labeled"Part VI: Gender and SexualityIntroduction and Discussion QuestionsSelection 18: Deborah Tannen, "Different Words, Different Worlds"Selection 19: John M. Coggeshall, "'Ladies Behind Bars': A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror"Selection 20: Antonia Young, "The Sworn Virgins of Albania"Selection 21: Serena Nanda, "Hijra and Sadhin: Neither Man nor Woman in India"Part VII: Marriage, Family, and KinshipIntroduction and Discussion QuestionsSelection 22: Robert and Helen Lynd, "Child-Rearing"Selection 23: Linda Stone, "Gay Marriage and Anthropology"Selection 24: Melvyn C. Goldstein, "When Brothers Share a Wife"Selection 25: Jonathan Marks, "Caveat Emptor?"Part VIII: Belief SystemsIntroduction and Discussion QuestionsSelection 26: Arval Looking Horse, "The Sacred Pipe in Modern Life"Selection 27: Toby Lester, "Oh, Gods!"Selection 28: David Hufford, "Folklore and Medicine"Part IX: Applied and Future AnthropologiesIntroduction and Discussion QuestionsSelection 29: James L. Peacock, "Reflections on Collaboration, Ethnographic and Applied"Selection 30: Cathy Small, "Studying College Students: Applying Anthropology to Teaching Anthropology"Selection 31: Tom Boellstorff, "Virtual Worlds and Futures of Anthropology"