Talking about people / Haviland, William A. 

Public ISBD Titre : Talking about people : readings in contemporary cultural anthropology Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Haviland, William A., Auteur ; Robert J. Gordon (1947-), Auteur ; Luis Antonio Vivanco (1969-), Auteur Mention d'édition : Third edition Editeur : Boston : McGraw-Hill Année de publication : c2002 Importance : xxiv, 258 p. Présentation : Map. Format : 28 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7674-0513-3 Note générale : Includes bibliographical references and index. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Ethnology Index. décimale : GN 316 Note de contenu : 1. What is distinctive about anthropology? -- Anthropological perspectives on contemorary human problems -- Fact versus fiction: an ethnographic paradox set in the Seychelles -- Going native? -- Personal pathways -- 2. What is the meaning of culture? -- cultural Survival on "cultural survival" -- Loading the bases: how our tribe projects its own image into the national pastime -- When does life begin? A cross-cultural perspective on the personhood of fetuses and young children -- 3. What is the relationship between language and culture? -- When a juror watches a lawyer -- forms of address: how their social functions may vary -- What is, and isn't, in a word -- Language and social identity -- 4. How to people learn and experience their culture? -- Growing up American: doing the right thing -- The anthropologist as mother: reflections on childbirth observed and childbirth experienced -- Flexible survivors -- 5. How do people adapt to nature? -- Nomads on notice -- A view from the headwaters -- A taste of history -- Personal pathways -- 6. How do people make a living? -- Learning how to bribe a policeman -- Crack in Spanish Harlem: culture and economy in the inner city -- Cities without care or connection -- 7. How do women and men relate to each other? -- Arranging a marriage in India -- Ladies behind bars: a liminal gender as cultural mirror -- Female chiefs and their wives: tradition and modernity in Venda, South Africa -- The anthropologist's public-image problem -- Doing fieldword -- 8. What does it mean to be in a family? -- Why migrant owmen feed their husbands tamales: foodways as a basis for a revisionist view of Tejano family life -- Land of the walking marriage -- The persistence of polygamy -- 9. How do people express status and group membership? -- The new Latin labor -- owning places and buying time: class, culture, and stalled gentrification -- The genocidal state -- Doing fieldwork -- 10. How do people control the behavior of others? -- Say Cheese! The Disney order that is not so Mickey Mouse -- The modern stat: nation-builder or nation-killer? -- Deceptive stereotypes about tribal warfare -- Doing fieldwork -- 11. How do people relate to the supernatural? -- Witchccraft in anthropological perspective -- Feminine power at sea -- Treating the wounds of war: the culture of violence -- 12. How do cultures change? -- The ugly American revisited -- The anti-poitics machine: development and bureaucratic power in Lesotho -- Counter-development in the Andes -- Doing fieldwork -- Personal pathways -- 13. What does the future hold for anthropology? -- Visions of the future: the prospect for reconciliation -- The anthropology of abortion activism -- The Zapatistas and the electronic fabric of struggle -- The museum of me. Talking about people : readings in contemporary cultural anthropology [texte imprimé] / Haviland, William A., Auteur ; Robert J. Gordon (1947-), Auteur ; Luis Antonio Vivanco (1969-), Auteur  . -  Third edition . - Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2002 . - xxiv, 258 p. : Map. ; 28 cm. ISBN : 978-0-7674-0513-3 Includes bibliographical references and index. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Ethnology Index. décimale : GN 316 Note de contenu : 1. What is distinctive about anthropology? -- Anthropological perspectives on contemorary human problems -- Fact versus fiction: an ethnographic paradox set in the Seychelles -- Going native? -- Personal pathways -- 2. What is the meaning of culture? -- cultural Survival on "cultural survival" -- Loading the bases: how our tribe projects its own image into the national pastime -- When does life begin? A cross-cultural perspective on the personhood of fetuses and young children -- 3. What is the relationship between language and culture? -- When a juror watches a lawyer -- forms of address: how their social functions may vary -- What is, and isn't, in a word -- Language and social identity -- 4. How to people learn and experience their culture? -- Growing up American: doing the right thing -- The anthropologist as mother: reflections on childbirth observed and childbirth experienced -- Flexible survivors -- 5. How do people adapt to nature? -- Nomads on notice -- A view from the headwaters -- A taste of history -- Personal pathways -- 6. How do people make a living? -- Learning how to bribe a policeman -- Crack in Spanish Harlem: culture and economy in the inner city -- Cities without care or connection -- 7. How do women and men relate to each other? -- Arranging a marriage in India -- Ladies behind bars: a liminal gender as cultural mirror -- Female chiefs and their wives: tradition and modernity in Venda, South Africa -- The anthropologist's public-image problem -- Doing fieldword -- 8. What does it mean to be in a family? -- Why migrant owmen feed their husbands tamales: foodways as a basis for a revisionist view of Tejano family life -- Land of the walking marriage -- The persistence of polygamy -- 9. How do people express status and group membership? -- The new Latin labor -- owning places and buying time: class, culture, and stalled gentrification -- The genocidal state -- Doing fieldwork -- 10. How do people control the behavior of others? -- Say Cheese! The Disney order that is not so Mickey Mouse -- The modern stat: nation-builder or nation-killer? -- Deceptive stereotypes about tribal warfare -- Doing fieldwork -- 11. How do people relate to the supernatural? -- Witchccraft in anthropological perspective -- Feminine power at sea -- Treating the wounds of war: the culture of violence -- 12. How do cultures change? -- The ugly American revisited -- The anti-poitics machine: development and bureaucratic power in Lesotho -- Counter-development in the Andes -- Doing fieldwork -- Personal pathways -- 13. What does the future hold for anthropology? -- Visions of the future: the prospect for reconciliation -- The anthropology of abortion activism -- The Zapatistas and the electronic fabric of struggle -- The museum of me.

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