Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film

Abstract

Each chapter concludes with a Chapter Summary, Terms, Questions to Think About, and Suggestions for Further Reading. 1. Study of Human Diversity. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Introduction. Fields of Anthropology. Anthropology and Other Disciplines. Key Concepts in Anthropology. Doing Anthropology: Find the Connections. Focus Culture: Finding the Connections in Contemporary Bali. Seeing Anthropology: Goddess and the Computer. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Cultural Interaction in Passage to India. 2. Understanding Culture. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Defining Culture. Focus Culture: Shared Malay Traditions and Local Variations. Doing Anthropology: Societies, Cultures, and Subcultures. Concept of Race. Interaction of Biology and Culture. Seeing Anthropology: Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex in Malaysia. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Ethnicity in Smoke Signals. 3. Doing Anthropology: Fieldwork and Theories. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Doing Fieldwork. Focus Culture: Fieldwork Among the Grand Valley Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia (West New Guinea). Writing an Ethnography. Anthropological Theories: How We Account for Cultural Behavior. Doing Anthropology: Recognizing the Theory. Seeing Anthropology: Dead Birds. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Different Versions in Rashomon. 4. Meanings: Language, Symbols, and Art. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Language. Doing Anthropology: Full-Channel Shakespeare. Symbols, Art, and Identity. Focus Culture: Art and Ceremony of the Kwa Kwaka' Wakw of the Northwest Coast. Seeing Anthropology: Box of Treasures. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Cultural Translation of Darmo. 5. Psychology and Culture. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Cultures, Personality, and the Self. Focus Culture: Cultural Themes in Vietnam. Learning Styles. Cognition. Doing Anthropology: A New Intelligence Test. Emotions. Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Themes in Vietnam: How to Behave (Chuyen Tute). Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Individualism and Groupism in Mr. Baseball. 6. Patterns of Production. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Cultural Adaptation and Production. Division of Labor. Food Production Strategies. Focus Culture: Horticulture of the Grand Valley Dani. Doing Anthropology: Food Production Strategies in a Supermarket Culture. Seeing Anthropology: Dani Sweet Potatoes. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Family Farms in The Milagro Beanfield 7. Distribution and Consumption. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Distribution: Mechanisms of Exchange. Focus Culture: Redistributive Cargo System of the Zinacantan Mayans of Chiapas, Mexico. Doing Anthropology: Your Own Transactions. Consumption-Food. Doing Anthropology: Global Consumption. Seeing Anthropology: Appeals to Santiago. Hollywood--Style Anthropology: Mystique of Food in Tampopo. 8. Marriage and Family. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Definitions and Functions of Marriage. Forms of Marriage. Doing Anthropology: Schemas of Love and Marriage. Marriage as Exchange. Marriage Rules. Focus Culture: Marriage and Family in Japan. Family and Household Forms. Postmarital Residence Patterns. Changing Family Forms in Western Cultures. Seeing Anthropology: Farm Song. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Family in Moonstruck. 9. Social Organization and Kinship. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Class as Category. Descent Groups. Focus Culture: Patrilineal Descent of the Nuer of the Upper Nile. Kinship Terminology Systems. Non-kin Groupings. Doing Anthropology: A Second Look at Your Social Groups. Seeing Anthropology: Nuer. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Socioliguistics of Pygmalion. 10. Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Differentiating Sexuality and Gender. How Many Genders? How Many Sexualities? Puzzle of Homosexuality. Role of Gender in Society. Manifestations of Sexuality. Doing Anthropology: Expressive Clothing. Sexual Ethos. Focus Culture: Gender and Sexuality of the Ju/'hoansi (!Kung San). Seeing Anthropology: N!ai: Story of a !Kung Woman. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Gender Confusion in Tootsie. 11. Power and Politics. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Power. Social Control. Doing Anthropology: Backpacks on Campus. Focus Culture: Adjudication in a Kpelle Village. Patterns and Causes of War. Nature of Peace. Seeing Anthropology: Cows of Dolo Ken Paye: Resolving Conflict among the Kpelle. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Social Control in High Noon. 12. Facing the Supernatural: Magic and Religion. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Looking for the Roots of Religion. Doing Anthropology: Magic, Science, and Religion. Sacred Power. Focus Culture: Shamanism on the North Coast of Peru. Rituals. World Religions and Local Practices. Seeing Anthropology: Eduardo the Healer. Hollywood--Style Anthropology: Witchcraft in Massachusetts: The Crucible. 13. Culture Change. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Forces of Change. Doing Anthropology: Nailing Down Language Change. Focus Culture: Changing Trobriand Islands. Indigenous Rights in a Changing World. Seeing Anthropology: Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: To Change or Not in Who Watches the Watchers? 14. Medical Anthropology and the Future. Press Watch: Headline Anthropology. Medical Anthropology. Focus Culture: Suffering and Pain of the Khmer. Anthropology of HIV/AIDS. Doing Anthropology: Illness and Culture. Final Reflections. Seeing Anthropology: House of Spirit: Perspectives on Cambodian Health Care. Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Medical Anthropology and Medicine Man. Appendix A: Thinking About Ethnographic Films. Appendix B: Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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