Paradigms for anthropology : an ethnographic reader /

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Imprint:Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2010.
Description:xiii, 337 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7931322
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Other authors / contributors:Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
Erem, Suzan.
ISBN:9781594517808 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1594517800 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781594517815 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1594517819 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • The early paradigm on a Pacific island: excerpt from Argonauts of the Western Pacific / Bronislaw Malinowski
  • How it works in the global world: anthropologist - the myth teller / Miles Richardson
  • Where Pacific Islanders live: residence rules / Ward H. Goodenough
  • Anthropology gets religion: cultural ecology, pantheism, and paper dolls among the Nahua people of Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom
  • Sacred cows in India: the myth of the sacred cow / Marvin Harris
  • Ritual regulation of enviromental relations among a New Guinea people / Roy A. Rappaport
  • The origin of Islam: the social organization of Mecca and the origins of Islam / Eric R. Wolf
  • Community in Mexico and Indonesia: closed corporate peasant communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java / Eric R. Wolf
  • Household to firm in Iceland: peasants, entrepreneurs, and companies: the evolution of Icelandic fishing / E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson
  • The development of underdevelopment / Andre Gunder Frank
  • Leaf of paradise or aid to terrorism? Cultural constructions of a drug called khat / Lisa L Gezon
  • Bordering culture: the U.S.-Mexico case / Josiah Heyman and Howard Campbell
  • Wealth unbound: corporate capitalism and the transformation of U.S. culture / Dimitra Doukas
  • Households and gender realtions in economic development: a Central Anatolian village / Emine Onaran Incirlioglu
  • Economists' blind spots: field stories of the informal economy among Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / Christian Zlolniski
  • Water, the other name of life: South Asian perspectives / Azizur R. Molla
  • This little piggy went to market: the social, cultural, and economic effects of changing systems of swine production in Iowa / Barbara J. Dilly
  • Cooperatives in Japan: Japan's worker cooperative movement into the twenty-first century / Bob Marshall
  • Responses to tourism in Indonesia: ethnic tourism and the renegotiation of tradition in Tana Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia) / Kathleen M. Adams
  • The Sims meet anthropology: the use of computer simulation to harness social complexity / Lawrence A. Kuznar