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Practicing Anthropology Today: Being Critically Applied and Publicly Engaged
Part 1: Thinking Anthropologically & Doing Fieldwork
Introduction: Thinking Anthropologically & Doing Fieldwork
1.1 Eating Christmas in the
Kalahari by Richard Lee Borshay
1.2 Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
1.3 Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others by Lila Abu-Lughod
1.4 Is Native Anthropology Really Possible? by
Takeyuki Tsuda
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Jim Yong Kim
Part 2: Communicating Culture: Language and Expressive Culture
Introduction: Communicating Culture: Language and Expressive Culture
2.1 The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based
on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles by Emily Martin
2.2 What Are You Laughing At? Assessing the "Racial" in U.S. Public Discourse by John Hartigan Jr.
2.3 Speaking Like a Model Minority: "FOB" Styles, Gender, and Racial Meanings Among Desi Teens in Silicon Valley by Shalini Shankar
2.4
Anything Can Happen on YouTube (or Can It?): Endangered Language and New Media by Jillian R. Cavanaugh
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Bernard Perley
Part 3: Globalization, Development, and Relief
Introduction: Globalization, Development, and Relief
3.1 Being Indigenous in the 21st
Century by Wilma Mankiller
3.2 How Sushi Went Global by Theodore C. Bestor
3.3 Hot Money Cold Beer: Navigating the Vanilla and Rosewood Export Economies in Northeastern Madagascar by Annah Zhu
3.4 Islamic Philanthropy and the Expansion of Technology in Morocco by Hsain
Ilahiane
3.5 Whose Development? Service-Learning Abroad and Discourses on "Doing Good" by Natalie J. Bourdon
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Barbara Rose Johnson
Part 4: Economies and Cultures of Capitalism
Introduction: Economies and Cultures of Capitalism
4.1 Reciprocity and
the Power of Giving by Lee Cronk
4.2 Money as Inadequate Substitute by David Graeber
4.3 Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho
4.4 The Making of Disaster by Vincanne Adams
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Melissa Cefkin
Part 5: Power, Politics, and
Violence
Introduction: Power, Politics, Conflict, and Violence
5.1 An Anthropology of Structural Violence by Paul Farmer
5.2 The Pulse Nightclub Shooting: Connecting Militarism, Neoliberalism and Multiculturalism to Understand Violence by Zachery Shane Kalish Blair
5.3 10 Points
of War by Brian Ferguson
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Laura McNamara
Part 6: Migration and Displacement
Introduction: Migration and Displacement
6.1 Dispelling the Myths: Unaccompanied, Undocumented Minors in U.S. Immigration Custody by Susan Terrio
6.2 The Non-National in
Jordan: Statelessness as Structural Violence Among Gaza Refugees in Jordan by Michael Vicente Perez
6.3 The End of Refugees? Forced Migration and the New World Disorder by Tricia Redeker Hepner
6.4 Chingonx Aquí y Allá (Badass Here and There): Binational Organizing in an Era of Mass
Deportation by Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz and Ana Laura López
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Jason de León
Part 7: Belief Systems
Introduction: Belief Systems
7.1 Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Minor
7.2 Baseball Magic by George Gmelch
7.3 "No Peace in the House":
Witchcraft Accusations as an "Old Woman's Problem" in Ghana by Alexandra Crampton
7.4 Religion and Power: Entertainment in Creationist Publicity by James Bielo
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Tanya Marie Luhrmann
Part 8: Kinship and Family
Introduction: Kinship and Family
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When Brothers Share a Wife by Melvyn C. Goldstein
8.2 Negotiating Land and Authority in Central Mozambique by Michael Madison Walker
8.3 Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Andrea Louie
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Riché J. Daniel
Barnes
Part 9: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
Introduction: Gender and Sexuality
9.1 Hijra and Sadhin: Neither Man nor Woman in India by Serena Nanda
9.2 'God Forgives the Sin but not the Scandal': Coming out in a transnational context - between sexual freedom and cultural isolation
by Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
9.3 Performing Gender Identity: Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity by Deborah Cameron
9.4 Virginity Testing as a Local Public Health Initiative: A "Preventative Ritual" More Than a "Diagnostic Measure" by Annette Wickström
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Megan E. Springate
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Meryl Lauer
Part 10: Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Inequality
Introduction: Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Inequality
10.1 Can White Men Jump? Ethnicity, Genes, Culture, and Success by David Shenk
10.2 Maintaining Whiteness: The Fear of Others and Niceness by Setha Low
10.3 Birthdays, Basketball, and Breaking Bread: Negotiating with Class in Contemporary Black America by John L. Jackson Jr.
10.4 Building Body, Making Face, Doing Love; Mass Media and the Configuration of Class
and Gender in Kathmandu by Mark Leitchy
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Raymond Codrington
Part 11: Medical Anthropology
Introduction: Medical Anthropology
11.1 Migrant Farmworkers and the Pain of Picking by Seth Holmes
11.2 Bad Biocitizens? Latinos and the U.S. Obesity Epidemic
by Susan Greenhalgh and Megan Carney
11.3 A Community of Addicted Bodies by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg
11.4 Living with a Thousand Cuts: Self-Cutting, Agency, and Mental Illness Among Adolescents by Thomas J. Csordas and Janis H. Jenkins
11.5 Democracy as Social Action: Home
Birth, Midwives, and the Push for State Licensure by Tara Hefferan
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos
Part 12: Environmental Anthropology and Foodways
Introduction: Environmental Anthropology and Foodways
12.1 Seeing Conservation Through a Global Lens by James Igoe
12.2 Gimi Theories of Possession, Dispossession, and Accumulation by Paige West
12.3 "If We Didn't Have Water": Black Women's Struggle for Urban Land Rights in Brazil by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
12.4 American Meat by Donald D. Stull
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Micah Trapp
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Shirley Fiske
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Fabiana Li
Part 13: Media and Visual Anthropology
Introduction: Media and Visual Anthropology
13.1 #Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United
States by Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa
13.2 Navigating (Virtual) Jamaica: Online Diasporic Contact Zones by Bianca Williams
13.3 Policing Childhood through The Learning Channels' Toddlers in Tiaras by Andrea Freidus
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Neera Singh
ANTHROPOLOGY IN
PRACTICE: Dr. Karen Nakamura
Part 14: Anthropology in the Here and Now
Introduction: Anthropology in the Here and Now
14.1 I Want to Be an Anthropologist . . . by Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins
14.2 On the Mundane Significance of Bike Lanes . . . And the Pursuit of Anthropology in
the Here and Now by Luis A. Vivanco
14.3 Growing up with the AnthropoGENE in the Anthropocene by Kathryn T. Yegorov-Crate and Susan A. Crate
14.4 Once an Anthropologist: On Being Critically Applied and Publically Engaged by Alisse Waterston
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: The Honorable Debra
Rodman, Ph.D.
ANTHROPOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse
Glossary
References
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Keri Vacanti Brondo is Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology at the University of Memphis.
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology - Robert H. Lavenda and Emily A. Schultz
Cultural Anthropology - Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco
