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.