Investigating culture: an experiential introduction to anthropology

INDICE: 1. Disorientation and Orientation. Selected Reading: Laura Bohannan, Shakespeare in the Bush. Exercises. 2. Spatial Locations. Selected Reading: Sue Bridwell Beckham, The American Front Porch: Womens Liminal Space. Exercises. 3. All We Have Is Time. Selected Reading: Ellen Goodman, Time is for Savoring. Exercises. 4. Language: We Are What We Speak. Selected Reading: Ursula LeGuin, She Unnames Them. Selected Reading: Alan Dundes, Seeing is Believing. Exercises. 5. Relatives and Relations. Selected Reading: Penelope Eckert, Symbolsof Category Membership. Selected Reading: A. M. Hocart, Kinship Systems. Exercises. 6. Our Bodies, Our Selves. Selected Reading: Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema. Exercises. 7. Food for Thought. Selected Reading: Jill Dubisch, You Are What You eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement. Exercises. 8. Clothing Matters. Selected Reading: Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Alienation. Exercises. 9. VIPs: Very Important People, Places, and Performances. Selected Reading: Clifford Geertz, The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man. Exercises.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-5424-6
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 424
• Fecha Publicación: 04/03/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés