Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Author | : Horace Miner |
Publisher | : Irvington Pub |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780829041828 |
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Author | : Horace Miner |
Publisher | : Irvington Pub |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780829041828 |
Author | : Horace Mitchell Miner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 1957* |
Genre | : Americans |
ISBN | : |
Discusses the curious body ritual of that complex, mysterious, and diverse American ethnic/cultural group known as the Nacirema.
Author | : Horace Mitchell Miner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 196? |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Wesch |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781724963673 |
Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. "Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage," Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. "Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. ... It teaches students not to be afraid of getting one's hands dirty, to get down in the dirt, and to commit yourself, body and mind. Susan Sontag called anthropology a "heroic" profession." What is the payoff for this heroic journey? You will find ideas that can carry you across rivers of doubt and over mountains of fear to find the the light and life of places forgotten. Real anthropology cannot be contained in a book. You have to go out and feel the world's jagged edges, wipe its dust from your brow, and at times, leave your blood in its soil. In this unique book, Dr. Michael Wesch shares many of his own adventures of being an anthropologist and what the science of human beings can tell us about the art of being human. This special first draft edition is a loose framework for more and more complete future chapters and writings. It serves as a companion to anth101.com, a free and open resource for instructors of cultural anthropology. This 2018 text is a revision of the "first draft edition" from 2017 and includes 7 new chapters.
Author | : JAMES P. SPRADLEY AND MICHAEL A. RYNKIEWICH |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James M. Henslin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2007-02-13 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1416536205 |
Presents a selection of forty-six readings that provide, an introduction to the sociological perspective, look at how sociologists conduct research, examine the cultural underpinnings of social life, and discuss social groups and social structure, gender and sexuality, deviance, and social stratification, institutions, and change.
Author | : Steven F. Arvizu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 135123708X |
Originally published in 1992. This book advocates and demonstrates the benefits of an anthropological approach that recognizes the centrality of culture in the educational process. This approach encompasses knowledge and understanding of other cultures’ patterns of interaction, values, institutions, metaphors and symbols as well as cross-cultural communication skills. Ethnographic studies of multi-ethnic classrooms and schools in their community context are presented in this excellent volume with a view to informing practice and policy concerning the education of language minority students and teachers, and anyone with an interest in foreign language education and bilingual education.
Author | : Lucas Bessire |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2014-10-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022617560X |
In 2004, one of the world’s last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers’ bulldozers. Behold the Black Caiman is Lucas Bessire’s intimate chronicle of the journey of this small group of Ayoreo people, the terrifying new world they now face, and the precarious lives they are piecing together against the backdrop of soul-collecting missionaries, humanitarian NGOs, late liberal economic policies, and the highest deforestation rate in the world. Drawing on ten years of fieldwork, Bessire highlights the stark disconnect between the desperate conditions of Ayoreo life for those out of the forest and the well-funded global efforts to preserve those Ayoreo still living in it. By showing how this disconnect reverberates within Ayoreo bodies and minds, his reflexive account takes aim at the devastating consequences of our society’s continued obsession with the primitive and raises important questions about anthropology’s potent capacity to further or impede indigenous struggles for sovereignty. The result is a timely update to the classic literary ethnographies of South America, a sustained critique of the so-called ontological turn—one of anthropology’s hottest trends—and, above all, an urgent call for scholars and activists alike to rethink their notions of difference.
Author | : Leila Monaghan |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1444335316 |
Featuring several all-new chapters, revisions, and updates, the Second Edition of A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication presents an interdisciplinary collection of key readings that explore how interpersonal communication is socially and culturally mediated. Includes key readings from the fields of cultural and linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and communication studies Features new chapters that focus on digital media Offers new introductory chapters and an expanded toolkit of concepts that students may draw on to link culture, communication, and community Expands the Ethnographer’s Toolkit to include an introduction to basic concepts followed by a range of ethnographic case studies
Author | : Philip R. DeVita |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478632429 |
Most young students of American culture believe many of the cultural assumptions they grow up with are universal. As insiders, speaking a common language, following the accepted patterns of behavior embedded in a particular way of life, most of us take our own social actions for granted, and it is a challenge to realize the strangeness and wonder of our own behaviors. The distinct aim of each edition of this popular classroom supplement has been to enable students to better understand themselves by casting American culture into sharper relief—offering other mirrors, other reflections. The latest edition’s twenty-one personalized narratives, of which seven are new, unveil fresh portrayals of American culture. Each contribution offers unique ethnographic perspectives of various aspects of American culture that enable us to better understand ourselves.