A collection of readings chosen to demonstrate the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological perspective to real-world problems on local, regional, and global scales. It provides students with a variety of ethnographic and other anthropological materials so they do not have to buy an array of titles.

Preface Part I: Culture Introduction and Discussion Questions Selection 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 Ethnography Introduction and Discussion Questions Selection 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 Culture Introduction and Discussion Questions Selection 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 World Introduction and Discussion Questions Selection 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 Ethnicity Introduction and Discussion Questions Selection 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 Sexuality Introduction and Discussion Questions Selection 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 Kinship Introduction and Discussion Questions Selection 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 Systems Introduction and Discussion Questions Selection 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 Anthropologies Introduction and Discussion Questions Selection 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"