Talking about people : readings in contemporary cultural anthropology / Edited by William A. Haviland, Robert J. Gordon.

1. The Nature of Anthropology
Judith Okely, “Fieldwork in the Home Counties”
Marion Benedict, “Fact Versus Fiction: An Ethnographic Paradox Set in the Seychelles”
William J. Klauser, “Going Native?”


2. Culture
David H.P. Maybury-Lewis, “A Special Sort of Pleading: Anthropology at the Service of Ethnic Groups”
Lynn M. Morgan, “When Does Life Begin? A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Personhood of Fetuses and Young Children”
Lamont Lindstrom, “Cargo Inventories, Shipping Lists, and Desire”


3. Language and Communication
William M. O’Barr and John M. Conley, “When a Juror Watches a Lawyer”
Salikoko S. Mufwene, “Forms of Address: How Their Social Functions May Vary”
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, “Language and Social Identity”


4. Psychological Anthropology
Amparo B. Ojeda, “Growing up American: Doing the Right Thing”
Alma Gottlieb, “The Anthropologist as Mother: Reflections on Childbirth Observed and Childbirth Experienced”
Alan Dundes, “Into the Endzone for a Touch-down: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of American Football”


5. Subsistence
Daniel Stiles, “Nomads on Notice”
Baird Straughan, “The Secrets of Ancient Twanaku Are Benefiting Today’s Bolivia”
Sidney Mintz, “A Taste of History”


6. Economic Systems
Sean Cush McNamara, “Learning How to Bribe a Policeman”
Phillipe Bourgois, “Crack in Spanish Harlem: Culture and Economy in the Inner City”
Karen Tranberg Hansen, “Dealing with Used Clothing: Salaula and the Construction of Identity in Zambia’s Third Republic”


7. Sex and Marriage
Dirk Johnson, “Polygamists Emerge from Secrecy, Seeking Not Just Peace But Respect”
John M. Coggeshall, “‘Ladies’ Behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror”
Regina Smith Oboler, “Is the Female Husband a Man? Woman/Woman Marriage Among the Nandi of Kenya”


8. Family and Kinship
Brett Williams, “Why Migrant Women Feed Their Husbands Tamales: Foodways as a Basis for a Revisionist View of Tejano Family Life”
Margery Wolf, “Uterine Families and the Women’s Community”
Alice Schlegel, “Male and Female in Hopi Thought and Action”


9. Sex, Age, Common Interest and Stratification
Abigail E. Adams, “Dyke to Dyke: Ritual Reproduction at a U.S. Men’s Military College”
Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi, “Advertised Self in Obituaries and Congratulations in Some Nigerian Dailies”
Brett Williams, “Owning Places and Buying Time: Class, Culture and Stalled Gentrification”


10. Political Organization and Social Control
Elizabeth A. Eames, “Why the Women Went to War: Women and Wealth in Ondo Town, Southwestern Nigeria”
Jason Clay, “What’s a Nation?”
Neil L. Whitehead and R. Brian Ferguson, “Deceptive Stereotypes About ‘Tribal Warfare’”
Clifford D. Shearing and Philip C. Stenning, “Say ‘Cheese’! The Disney Order That Is Not So Mickey Mouse”


11. Religion and Magic
Tanya M. Luhrmann, “The Goat and the Gazelle: Witchcraft”
Silvia Rodgers, “Feminine Power at Sea”
J.D. Lewis-Williams, “Reality and Non-Reality in San Rock Art”
Carolyn Nordstrom, “Treating the Wounds of War”


12. Culture Change
A. L. Spedding, “Coca Eradication: A Remedy for Independence? —With a Postscript”
James L. Brain, “The Ugly American Revisited”
James Ferguson with Larry Lohmann, “The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘Development’ and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho”
David H. P. Maybury-Lewis, “A New World Dilemma: The Indian Question in the Americas”


13. The Future of Humanity
Ronald Frankenberg, “AIDS and Anthropologists”
Jared Diamond, “In Black and White”
Gernot Köhler, “Global Apartheid”
Alex de Waal, “In the Disaster Zone—Anthropologists and the Ambiguity of Aid”
Megan Biesele, “The Bushmen of Today”

Includes bibliographical references and index.