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Annual editions : Anthropology 88/89 / edited by Elvio Angeloni

Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary learning seriesPublication details: Connecticut : Dushkin publishing group, c1988.Description: xviii, 244 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0879677139
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 301.2 ANN
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Contents;

UNIT 1: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Doing fieldwork among the Yanomamo
Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
Margaret Mead: The nature-nurture debate
Etc.

UNIT 2: CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
Shakespeare in the bush
The sounds of silence
The laws of looking
Social time: The heartbeat of culture


UNIT 3: THE ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Everything else you always wanted to know about sex . . . But that we were afraid you’d never ask
The blood in their veins
Trading with the Eskimos
Hunter-gatherers of the tropical forest
Etc.


UNIT 4: CHANGING FAMILIES
Young traders of Northern Nigeria
Child care in China
Free enterprise and the ghetto family
The gypsies
Etc.

UNIT 5: SEX ROLES AND STATUSES
Society and sex roles
When brothers share a wife
In the absence of men
No girls allowed

UNIT 6: RELIGION, BELIEF AND RITUAL
The Mbuti pygmies: Change and adaptation
The initiation of Maasai warrior
The secrets of Haiti’s living dead
You’ve gotta have “Wa”
Body ritual among the Nacirema

UNIT 7: SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE: THE IMPACT OF THE WEST
Why can’t people feed themselves?
Fat tooth blues
Bushmen
Growing up as a fore
Dark dreams about the white man
American Indians: Adapting to change

Index : p.242-244.

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