Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader

PART I Biological Anthropology 1 Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy- Robert Root-Bernstein and Donald L. McEachron 2 Re-reading Root-Bernstein and McEachron in Cobb County, Georgia: A Year Past and Present- Benjamin Freed 3 Great Mysteries of Human Evolution- Carl Zimmer 4 A New Kind of Ancestor: Ardipithecus Unveiled- Ann Gibbons 5 What are Friends For?- Barbara Smuts 6 Mothers and Others- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy 7 Apes, Hominids, and the Roots of Religion- Barbara King 8 How Race Becomes Biology: Embodiment of Social Inequality- Clarence C. Gravlee 9 Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health- Elizabeth D. Whitaker 10 Ancient Genes and Modern Health- S. Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner 11 The Tall and the Short of It- Barry Bogin 12 Identifying Victims after a Disaster-Dick Gould PART II Archaeology 13 Dawn of a New Stone Age in Eye Surgery- Payson D. Sheets 14 Feminine Knowledge and Skills Reconsidered: Women and Flaked Stone Tools- Kathryn Weedman Arthur 15 The Secrets of Ancient Tiwanaku Are Benefiting Today’s Bolivia- Baird Straughan 16 Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson’s Mounds- Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos 17 Uncovering America’s Pyramind Builders- Karen Wright 18 Battle of the Bones- Robson Bonnichsen and Alan L. Schneider 19 The Challenge of Race to American Historical Archaeology- Charles E. Orser Jr. 20 Archaeology and the Vauna Development in Fiji- Andrew Crosby 21 Around the Mall and Beyond- Michael Kernan 22 “Clean Your Plate. There Are People Starving in Africa!”: The Application of Archaeology and Ethnography to America’s Food Loss Issues- Timothy W. Jones PART III Linguistic Anthropology 23 From Heofonum to Heavens- Yudhiijit Bhattacharjee 23 “To Give up on Words”: Silence in Western Apache Culture- Keith H. Basso 25 Village of the Deaf: In a Bedouin Town, a Language Is Born- Margalit Fox 26 Shifting Norms of Linguistic and Cultural Respect: Hybrid Sociolinguistic Zulu Identities- Stephanie Inge Rudwick 27 Lost in Translation- Lera Boroditsky 28 Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers- Deborah Tannem PART IV Cultural Anthropology CULTURE AND FIELDWORK 29 Body Ritual among the Nacirema- Horace Miner 30 Shakespeare in the Bush-Laura Bohannan 31 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari- Richard Borshay Lee FAMILY & KINSHIP 32 Our Babies, Ourselves- Meredith F. Small 33 How Many Fathers Are Best for a Child?- Meredith F. Small 34 When Brothers Share a Wife- Melvyn C. Goldstein 35 How Families Work: Love, Labor and Mediated Oppositions in American Domestic Ritual- Mark Auslander GENDER AND SEXUALITY 36 “Strange Country This”: An Introduction to North American Gender Diversity- Will Roscoe 37 Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS- Claire E. Sterk 38 Law, Custom, and Crimes against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India- John van Wiligen and V.C. Channa HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND CULTURE 39 Culture and the Evolution of Obesity- Peter J. Brown 40 Pocahontas Goes to the Clinic: Popular Culture as Lingua Franca in a Cultural Borderland- Cheryl Mattingly 41 Culture, Poverty, and HIV Transmission: The Case of Rural Haiti- Paul Farmer 42 Circumcision, Pluralism, and Dilemmas of Cultural Relativism- Corinna A. Kratz WORK AND BUSINESS 43 Conflict and Confluence in Advertising Meetings- Robert A. Morais 44 Just Another Job?: The Commodification of Domestic Labor- Bridget Anderson CONFLICT, LAW, AND CULTURE 45 Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands- Aaron Podolefsky 46 The Kpelle Moot- James L. Gibbs, Jr. 47 Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones- David Rohde 48 Moral Fibers of Farmer Cooperatives: Creating Poverty and Wealth with Cotton in Southern Mali- Scott M. Lacy 49 Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?: Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others- Lila Abu-Lughod 50 The Price of Progress- John H. Bodley Glossary G-1 Index I-1