This collection of contemporary ethnographic articles illustrates how anthropologists employ a variety of theories and data collection methods to address why people think, act, form social groups, and engage in the cultural practices they do.
Roberta Robin Dods: Foreword
Introduction
Part One: Anthropological Traditions / Contemporary Practice
1. Renée Sylvain: Loyalty and Treachery in the Kalahari
2. Aaron Glass: The Thin Edge of the Wedge: Dancing Around the Potlatch Ban, 1921-1951
3. Monica Heller:
Brewing Trouble: Language, the State, and Modernity in Industrial Beer Production (Montreal, 1978-1980)
4. Anne Meneley: Time in a Bottle: The Uneasy Circulation of Palestinian Olive Oil
5. Alexander M. Ervin: A Green Coalition Versus Big Uranium: Rhizomal Networks of Advocacy and
Environmental Action
Part Two: Gender/Embodiment
6. Evelyn Blackwood: Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire
7. Anne Irwin: "There Will be a Lot of Old Young Men Going Home": Combat and Becoming a Man in Afghanistan"
8. Richard A. O'Connor and
Penny Van Esterik: De-medicalizing Anorexia: A New Cultural Brokering
9. Lalaie Ameeriar: The Sanitized Sensorium
Part Three: Kinship/Marriage/Family
10. Harriet Phinney: Asking for a Child: Refashioning Reproductive Space in Post-War Northern Vietnam
11. Sonja Luehrmann:
Mediated Marriage: Internet Matchmaking in Provincial Russia
12. Chantal Collard and Shireen Kashmeri: Embryo Adoption
13. Pamela Stern: The Nucleation of Inuit Households
Part Four: Rituals/Environment/Economy
14. Peter S. Cahn: Building Down and Dreaming Up
15. Anna J.
Willow: Re(con)figuring Alliances: Place Membership, Environmental Justice, and the Remaking of Indigenous-Environmentalist Relationships in Canada's Boreal Forest
16. Fabiana Li: Negotiating Livelihoods: Women, Mining, and Water Resources in Peru
17. Andrew Walsh: After the Rush: Living
with Uncertainty in a Malagasy Mining Town
Part Five: Global Lives/Local Identities
18. Vered Amit: "Before I Settle Down": Youth Travel and Enduring Life Course Paradigms
19. John Osburg: Meeting the "Godfather": Fieldwork and Ethnographic Seduction in a Chinese Nightclub
20.
Nelson H.H. Graburn: Work and Play in the Japanese Countryside
21. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier: Positioning the New Reggaetón Stars in Cuba
Online Chapter:
22. Belinda Leach: A Clash of Histories: Encounters of Migrant and Non-migrant Laborers in the Canadian Automobile Parts
Industry
Glossary
References
Credits
Index
Online Chapter:
A Clash of Histories: Encounters of Migrant and Non-migrant Laborers in the Canadian Automobile Parts Industry - Belinda Leach
Instructor's Manual:
For each chapter:
3-5 short-answer questions with answer key
1 essay question
2-3 annotated online
digital resources
E-Book (ISBN 9780199013135):
Available through CourseSmart.com
Pamela Stern is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She has taught the introduction to cultural anthropology course there and at the University of Waterloo, as well as a variety of more advanced course offerings including research
methods courses. Her research focusses on how Canadian individuals and communities respond to and shape the conditions of modern life and in doing so participate in making public policy.
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