Table of Contents

* Indicates a selection new to this edition. CULTURE AND FIELDWORK1. Body Ritual Among Nacirema - Horace Miner,19562. *Slumber's Unexplored Landscape - Bruce Bower, 19993. Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS - Claire E. Sterk, 20004. Crack in Spanish Harlem - Philippe Bourgois, 19895. Profile of an Anthropologist -- Corporate Anthropologists - Jennifer J. Laabs, 1992CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION6. Shakespeare in the Bush - Laura Bohannan, 19667. *To Give Up on Words: Silence in Western Apache Culture Keith Basso, 19708. A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication - Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker -19829. Suite for Ebony and Phonics - John R. Rickford, 1997CULTURE AND FOOD10. Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health - Elizabeth D. Whitaker, 199811. Chinese Table Manners: You are How You Eat - Eugene Cooper, 198612. Culture and the Evolution of Obesity - Peter J. Brown, 1991CULTURE AND AGRICULTURE13. The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race - Jared Diamond, 198714. The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution - Gerald F. Murray, 198715. Two Rights Make a Wrong: Indigenous Peoples Versus Environmental Protection Agencies - Richard Reed, 2000RACE AND ETHNICITY16. Race without Color - Jared Diamond, 199417. Official Statement on "Race" - American Anthropological Association, 199718. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh, 198819. Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education - Deborah Freedman Lustig, 1997ECONOMY AND BUSINESS20. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari - Richard Borshay Lee, 196921. Strings Attached - Lee Cronk,198922. Using Cultural Skills for Cooperative Advantage in Japan Richard H. Reeves-Ellington - 199323. Family Planning Outreach and Credit Programs in Rural Bangladesh - Sidney Ruth Schuler and Syed M. Hashemi, 199524. *Profile - Anthropology in the Technology Industry - Greg Guest, 2001GENDER AND SOCIALIZATION25. Society and Sex Roles - Ernestine Friedl, 197826. *Our Babies, Our Selves - Meredith F. Small, 199727. New Women of The Ice Age - Heather Pringle, 199828. Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man's Profession - Joan Cassell, 1997MARRIAGE AND GENDER RELATIONS29. When Brothers Share a Wife - Melvyn C. Goldstein, 198730. African Polygyny: Family Values and Contemporary Changes - Philip L. Kilbride, 199631. Law, Custom, and Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India - John van Willigen and V. C. Channa, 1991POLITICS, LAW AND WARFARE 32. PROFILE of an Anthropologist: Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service - Jeffery L. MacDonald, 199633. The Kpelle Moot - James L. Gibbs Jr., 196334. Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands - Aaron Podolefsky, 1984RELIGION, RITUAL AND CURING35. *The Power of Islam. - Lincoln Keiser, 199136. Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies - Wade Davis, 198537. Aids as Human Suffering - Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman, 1989SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE38. *Circumcision, Pluralism, and Dilemmas of Cultural Relativism - Corinne A. Kratz, 200239. Advertising and Global Culture - Noreene Janus, 198340. *How Sushi Went Global - Theodore C. Bestor, 200041. The Price of Progress - John H. Bodley, 1990 * Indicates a selection new to this edition.

About the Author

Aaron Podolefsky is Provost and Vice President for Academic at the University of Northern Iowa, where he also served eight years as Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and also holds degrees in Liberal Studies and Mathematics. He has authored books on law in Papua New Guinea and crime prevention in urban America. Peter J. Brown is a Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, where he also holds a faculty position in the Rollins School of Public Health. He is currently director of Emory's Center for the Study of Health, Culture and Society. He has served as an officer in the Society for Medical Anthropology and was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Medical Anthropology for nine years. He has done research on a variety of topics, including malaria, tuberculosis, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, male gender and health, and the history of international health policy. He has been the recipient of three teaching awards. He has co-edited The Anthropology of Infectious Disease (with Marcia Inhorn) as well as the textbooks Applying Anthropology (sixth edition) and Applying Cultural Anthropology (fifth edition) (both with Aaron Podolefsky.