Conformity and Conflict : Readings in Cultural Anthropology

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Part 1 Culture and the contemporary world. Part 2 Culture and ethnography: ethnography and culture, James P. Spradley eating Christmas in the Kalahari, Richard Borshay Lee Shakespeare in the Bush, Laura Bohannan lessons from the field, George Gmelch. Part 3 Language and communication: the sounds of silence, Edward T. Hall, Mildred Reed Hall worlds shaped by words, David S. Thomson television and cultural behaviour, Conrad Philip Kottak losing languages - speaking with a single tongue, Jarad Diamond. Part 4 Ecology and subsistence: the hunters - scarce resources in the Kalahari, Richard Borshay Lee cultivating the tropical forest, Richard K. Reed polygyny and fertility in the Amazon, Warren M. Hern India's sacred cow, Marvin Harris. Part 5 Economic systems: reciprocity and the power of giving, Lee Cronk women's work in the Third World, A. Lynn Bolles subsistence and market - when the turtle collapses, Bernard Nietschmann cocaine and the economic deterioration of Bolivia, Jack McIver Weatherford. Part 6 Kinship and family: mother's love - death without weeping, Nancy Sheper-Hughes polyandry - when brothers take a wife, Melvyn C. Goldstein marriage, alliance and the incest taboo, Yehudi Cohen uterine families and the women's community, Margery Wolf. Part 7 Roles and inequality: children's talk, learning gender, Deborah Tannen Manhood, David D. Gilmore society and sex roles, Ernestine Friedl symbolizing roles - behind the veil, Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea. Part 8 Law and politics: Yanomamo - the fierce people, Napoleon A. Chagnon why women take men to magistrate's court, Mindie Lazarus-Black navigating Nigerian bureaucracies, Elizabeth A. Eames kinship and power on Capitol Hill, Jack M. Weatherford. Part 9 Religion, magic and world view: the ritual of birth in America, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd when technology fails - magic and religion in New Guinea, Philip L. Newman ritual and magic in American baseball, George Gmelch cargo cults, Peter M. Worsley. Part 10 Culture change and applied anthropology: steel axes for stone-age Australians, Lauriston Sharp progress and tribal peoples, John H. Bodley gypsies and health care, Ann Sutherland using anthropology, David W. McCurdy.