Personal Encounters : A Reader in Cultural Anthropology,9780767426039

Personal Encounters : A Reader in Cultural Anthropology

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ISBN13: 9780767426039
ISBN10: 0767426037
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-10-14
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

This reader offers 31 original articles, each of which centers on the encounters between an anthropologist and a person from whom the anthropologist has learned something about another culture. In telling the stories of specific individuals, the anthropologist can address a current topic in anthropology by situating it vividly within the lives and worlds of people in a variety of cultural settings.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Significant Others: An Introduction to Personal Encounters in Cultural Anthropology by April K. Sievert

Anthropology and Fieldwork

Introduction

1. The Evil Eye Is Bad for Business by Paul Derby

2. Worthless Women by K. Anne Pyburn

3. Eliasa and the Kwacha Video Coach by Pamela A. Maack

Economics and Work

Introduction

4. Rosa, Weaving Women into Life by Robin O’Brian

5. A Mother’s Work by Carolyn Behrman

6. Sunday Dinner at Hanka’s by Julianna Acheson

Changing Political Realities

Introduction

7. The Irish Rally for Irish by Eileen Moore Quinn

8. The Scent of Change in Chiapas by Jeanne Simonelli

9. Talking Politics: A Village Widow in Iran by Mary Hegland

Gender

Introduction

10. Green Earrings: A Widow’s Tale by Sarah Lamb

11. Queen for a Day by Carolyn Epple

12. Sitting on the Outers with the Girls, Watching the Boys Play by Susan Peake

Social Status

Introduction

13. Driving the Memsahib by Linda S. Walbridge

14. Vodka and Dumplings for New Year’s by Sherylyn Briller

15. Ambivalence of Grandsons and Rescue by Daughters by Lisa Cliggett

Medicine and Healing

Introduction

16. Little Dove by Elizabeth Cartwright

17. A Virgin to the Vaka by Vaughn Koops

18. 'Trae had': Kayzy's Reflections by Holly Buchanan-Aruwafu

Religion and Belief

Introduction

19. Healing the Body, Healing the Soul by M. Ligaya Hattari

20. Manuel, Apprentice Yatiri by Lawrence Kuznar

21. Tears for the Saint, Tears for Ourselves by Linda S. Walbridge

Death and Dying

Introduction

22. Death of an Irishman by Kathleen G. Williamson

23. The Death of Omar by Frances Trix

24. Death and Hope: Syrian Stories by Anne Bennett

Material Culture and the Arts

Introduction

25. Smoking Sage by April K. Sievert

26. Aurelio’s Song by Barry Lyons

27. The Shaman’s Art by Alan Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom

Globalization

Introduction

28. Living the Chulla Vida by Jason Pribilsky

29. Swamiji, A Life in Yoga by Sarah Strauss

30. Behind the Microphone by Debra Spitulnik

31. A Model Worker Talks Back by Courtney Coffey

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