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Paradigms for Anthropology E. Paul Durrenberger

Paradigms for Anthropology By E. Paul Durrenberger

Paradigms for Anthropology by E. Paul Durrenberger


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Anthology offering contemporary analysis of American culture in new essays written exclusively for this book by leading anthropologists.

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Paradigms for Anthropology: An Ethnographic Reader by E. Paul Durrenberger

Vital to libraries, teachers, and undergraduate students and their writings, this anthology offers contemporary analysis of American culture in new essays written exclusively for this book by leading anthropologists. The new essays are set against the perspective of several renowned anthropologists (Malinowski, Eric Wolf, Marvin Harris, Marshall Sahlins, etc.) to offer a uniquely anthropological perspective on the most challenging issues of our time, from immigration to job exportation to the recent financial meltdown.

About E. Paul Durrenberger

E. Paul Durrenberger was Professor of Anthropology for twenty-five years at the University of Iowa before moving to Penn State. He has published many influential articles and books. Suzan Erem is a freelance writer for unions and author of Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement (Monthly Review Press 2001). They are coauthors of Class Acts: An Anthropology of Service Workers and Their Union (Paradigm 2005).

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Part I: Field Work Chapter 1: The Early Paradigm on a Pacific Island: Excerpt from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski Chapter 2: How It Works in the Global World: "Anthropologist-the Myth Teller" by Miles Richardson Part II: Cultural Codes Chapter 3: Where Pacific Islanders Live: "Residency Rules" by Ward H. Goodenough Chapter 4: Nahua Religion in Mexico: "Anthropology Gets Religion: Cultural Ecology, Pantheism, and Paper Dolls among the Nahua People of Mexico" by Alan R. Sandstrom Part III: Explaining Cultures Chapter 5: Sacred Cows in India: "The Myth of the Sacred Cow" by Marvin Harris Chapter 6: New Guinea Rituals: "Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People" by Roy A. Rappaport Part IV: The Importance of History Chapter 7: The Origin of Islam: "The Social Organization of Mecca and the Origins of Islam" by Eric R. Wolf Chapter 8: Community in Mexico and Indonesia: "Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java" by Eric R. Wolf Chapter 9: Household to Firm in Iceland: "Peasants, Entrepreneurs and Companies: The Evolution of Icelandic Fishing" by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson Chapter 10: The Development of Underdevelopment: "The Development of Underdevelopment" by Andre Gunder-Frank Part V: Power and Culture Chapter 11: Why Khat Is Illegal in Madagascar: "Leaf of Paradise or Aid to Terrorism? Cultural Construction of a Drug Called Khat" by Lisa L. Gezon Chapter 12: Merging U.S. and Mexican Culture: "Bordering Culture: The U.S.-Mexico Case" by Josiah Heyman and Howard Campbell Chapter 13: Shaping American Culture: "Wealth Unbound: Corporate Capitalism and the Transformation of U.S. Culture" by Dimitra Doukas Part VI: Global Processes and Local Systems Chapter 14: Gender and Households in Turkey: "Households and Gender Relations in Economic Development: A Central Anatolian Village" by Emine Onaran Incirlioglu Chapter 15: Informal Economy in California: "Economists' Blind Spot: Field Stories of the Informal Economy among Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley" by Christian Zlolniski Chapter 16: Water and Health in Bangladesh: "Water: The Other Name of Life-South Asian Perspectives" by Azizur R. Molla Chapter 17: Industrial Swine Production in Iowa: "This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed Home; This Little Piggy Got Roast Beef, This Little Piggy Got None: The Social, Cultural, and Economic Effects of Changing Systems of Swine Production in Iowa" by Barbara J. Dilly Chapter 18: Cooperatives in Japan: "Japan's Worker Co-operative Movement into the Twenty-First Century" by Bob Marshall Part VII: Where Do Individuals Fit? Chapter 19: Responses to Tourism in Indonesia: "Ethnic Tourism and the Renegotiation of Tradition in Tana Toraja" by Kathleen M. Adams Chapter 20: Individuals in Systems: "The Sims Meet Anthropology: The Use of Computer Simulation to Harness Social Complexity" by Lawrence A. Kuznar

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CIN1594517819G
9781594517815
1594517819
Paradigms for Anthropology: An Ethnographic Reader by E. Paul Durrenberger
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2010-03-20
352
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