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Seeing anthropology : cultural anthropology through film

Heider, Karl G. 1935- (Author).

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ISBN: 9780205305582
ISBN: 020530558X
Physical Description: print
xx, 492 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2001.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 454-481) and index.

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1. The study of human diversity -- 2. Understanding culture -- 3. Doing anthropology: Fieldwork and theories -- 4. Meanings: Language, symbols, and art -- 5. Psychology and culture -- 6. Patterns of production -- 7. Distribution and consumption -- 8. Marriage and family -- 9. Social organization and kinship -- 10. The cultural construction of gender and sexuality -- 11. Power and politics -- 12. Facing the supernatural: Magic and religion -- 13. Culture change -- 14. Anthropology in the New Millennium.

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Motion pictures in ethnology
Ethnology
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures

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Table of Contents

Preface

xiii

The Study of Human Diversity

(30)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

(1)

Introduction

(1)

The Fields of Anthropology

(10)

Biological Anthropology

(3)

Archaeology

(2)

Linguistic Anthropology

(2)

Cultural Anthropology

(3)

Applied Anthropology

(1)

Anthropology and Other Disciplines

(2)

Key Concepts in Anthropology

(5)

Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativity

(4)

Holism

(1)

Doing Anthropology: Find the Connections

(1)

Focus Culture: Finding the Connections in Contemporary Bali

(5)

Seeing Anthropology: The Goddess and the Computer

(3)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Questions to Think About

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(2)

Understanding Culture

(34)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

(3)

Defining Culture

(3)

Culture Is Learned

(2)

Culture Is Shared

(1)

Focus Culture: Shared Malay Traditions and Local Variations

(11)

Culture Is Ideas

(3)

Culture Is Patterns of Behavior

(1)

Cultures Are Both Internally Consistent and Inconsistent

(1)

Cultures and Subcultures: Operating on Different Levels

(3)

Doing Anthropology: Societies, Cultures, and Subcultures

(1)

Focus Culture: Yiddischkeit Subculture in Venice, California

(4)

Seeing Anthropology: Number Our Days

(3)

Cultures Adapt and Change

(2)

The Concept of Race

(3)

Clinical Model of Variation

(1)

``Race'' as a Sociocultural Construct

(1)

The Interaction of Biology and Culture

(2)

Seeing Anthropology: Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex

(3)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Questions to Think About

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(1)

Doing Anthropology: Fieldwork and Theories

(36)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

(1)

Doing Fieldwork

(7)

Learning the Language

(1)

Fieldwork Techniques

(4)

Fieldwork Settings

(1)

Focus Culture: Fieldwork Among the Grand Valley Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia (West New Guinea)

(15)

Quantitative versus Qualitative Research

(2)

Ethics in Anthropology

(2)

Writing an Ethnography

(1)

Reflexivity

(1)

Anthropological Theories: How We Account for Cultural Behavior

(7)

Basic Assumptions

(1)

Theory Families

(4)

Doing Anthropology: Recognizing the Theory

(1)

Seeing Anthropology: Dead Birds

(4)

Chapter Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Questions to Think About

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

100

(1)

Meanings: Language, Symbols, and Art

101

(35)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

101

(1)

Language

102

(13)

Primitive Languages and Primitive Peoples

105

(1)

Elements of Language: Channels of Communication

106

(9)

Doing Anthropology: Full-Channels Shakespeare

115

(7)

Language, Culture, and Biology

116

(3)

Sociolinguistics: Language in Social Context

119

(3)

Symbols, Art, and Identity

122

(6)

Symbolic Structure in Narrative Art

123

(3)

Art and Identity

126

(1)

Art in Context versus Art on a Pedestal

127

(1)

Focus Culture: Art and Ceremony of the Kwa Kwaka' Wakw of the Northwest Coast

128

(4)

Seeing Anthropology: Box of Treasures

132

(2)

Chapter Summary

134

(1)

Key Terms

134

(1)

Questions to Think About

135

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

135

(1)

Psychology and Culture

136

(37)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

136

(4)

Cultures, Personality, and the Self

140

(12)

Childhood

140

(1)

Margaret Mead and the Cultural Construction of Puberty and Gender

141

(3)

From ``National Culture'' to Cultural Themes

144

(8)

Focus Culture: Cultural Themes in Vietnam

152

(4)

Privacy and the Self

155

(1)

Learning Styles

156

(2)

The Cycle of Learning

156

(1)

Teaching and Learning Styles

157

(1)

Cognition

158

(1)

Cognitive Style and Intelligence

158

(1)

Doing Anthropology: A new Intelligence Test

159

(4)

Organization of Knowledge

160

(3)

Emotions

163

(6)

Cultural Display Rules

163

(3)

Translating Emotions into Words

166

(1)

Grief: Emotion and Culture

167

(2)

Seeing Anthropology: How to Behave (Chuyen Tute)

169

(1)

Chapter Summary

170

(1)

Key Terms

171

(1)

Questions to Think About

171

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

171

(2)

Patterns of Production

173

(30)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

173

(1)

Cultural Adaptation and Production

174

(6)

Technology

177

(1)

What Does the Environment Determine?

178

(2)

The Division of Labor

180

(3)

Specialization: Mechanical and Organic Solidarity

180

(2)

Division of Labor by Age and Gender

182

(1)

Food Production Strategies

183

(10)

Foraging

184

(5)

Animal Husbandry and Pastoralism

189

(2)

Farming

191

(2)

Focus Culture: Horticulture of the Grand Valley Dani

193

(6)

Food Production Strategies in Industrial Societies

197

(2)

Doing Anthropology: Food Production Strategies in a Supermarket Culture

199

(1)

Seeing Anthropology: Dani Sweet Potatoes

199

(1)

Chapter Summary

200

(1)

Key Terms

201

(1)

Questions to Think About

201

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

201

(2)

Distribution and Consumption

203

(25)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

203

(1)

Distribution: Mechanisms of Exchange

204

(11)

Generalized Reciprocity

205

(8)

Balanced and Negative Reciprocity

213

(1)

Redistribution

214

(1)

Focus Culture: The Redistributive Cargo System of the Zinacantan Mayans of Chiapas, Mexico

215

(7)

Market Exchange

220

(2)

Your Own Transactions

222

(1)

Consumption

222

(2)

Case Study: Consuming Sugar

223

(1)

Doing Anthropology: Global Consumption

224

(1)

Seeing Anthropology: Appeals to Santiago

225

(1)

Chapter Summary

226

(1)

Key Terms

226

(1)

Questions to Think About

226

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

227

(1)

Marriage and Family

228

(34)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

228

(1)

Definitions and Functions of Marriage

229

(3)

Forms of Marriage

232

(1)

Arranged Marriages versus Love Marriages

232

(1)

Doing Anthropology: Schemas of Love and Marriage

233

(5)

Monogamy versus Polygamy

234

(4)

Marriage as Exchange

238

(5)

Marriage Rules

243

(6)

Marrying Out (Exogamy) and Marrying in (Edogamy)

243

(1)

Incest Prohibitions

243

(3)

Cousin Marriages

246

(1)

Social Repairs: Preserving Lines of Descent

247

(1)

Social Repairs: Saving the Alliance

248

(1)

Focus Culture: Marriage and Family in Japan

249

(2)

Family and Household Forms

251

(2)

Postmarital Residence Patterns

253

(2)

Changing Family Forms in Western Cultures

255

(2)

Seeing Anthropology: Farm Song

257

(2)

Chapter Summary

259

(1)

Key Terms

260

(1)

Questions to Think About

260

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

260

(2)

Social Organization and Kinship

262

(27)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

262

(4)

Descent Groups

266

(3)

Lineages, Clans, and Sibs

266

(1)

Phratries and Moieties

267

(2)

Focus Culture: Patrilineal Descent

269

(1)

Patrilineal Descent of the Nuer of the Upper Nile

269

(10)

Matrilineal Descent and the Minangkabau

273

(2)

Challenges to Unilineal Descent Systems

275

(3)

Non-unilineal Descent

278

(1)

Kinship Terminology Systems

279

(4)

Diagramming the Kin Universe

280

(1)

Culture-Neutral Kinship Analysis

280

(3)

Using an Emic Approach

283

(1)

Non-kin Groupings

283

(2)

Organization by Age

284

(1)

Voluntary Associations

284

(1)

Doing Anthropology: A Second Look at your Social Groups

285

(1)

The Nuer

286

(1)

Chapter Summary

286

(1)

Key Terms

287

(1)

Questions to Think About

288

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

288

(1)

The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality

289

(26)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

289

(1)

Differentiating Sexuality and Gender

290

(1)

How Many Genders? How Many Sexualities? The Puzzle of Homosexuality

291

(3)

The Role of Gender in Society

294

(5)

The Impact of the Feminist Perspective

294

(2)

Gender in Politics and Economics

296

(3)

Manifestations of Sexuality

299

(3)

Sexuality as Biological Procreation

299

(1)

Sexuality in Art

299

(1)

Sexuality in Attire

300

(2)

Doing Anthropology: Expressive Clothing

302

(4)

Gender-Specific Alterations of the Body

302

(1)

Genital Alterations

303

(2)

Exaggerations of Women's Bodies

305

(1)

Sexual Ethos

306

(2)

Sexually Permissive Cultures: Polynesia

306

(1)

Sexually Restrictive Cultures: Inis Beag

307

(1)

Sexually Indifferent Cultures: The Dani

307

(1)

Focus Culture: Gender and Sexuality of the Ju/'hoansi (!Kung San)

308

(2)

Seeing Anthropology: N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman

310

(2)

Chapter Summary

312

(1)

Key Terms

313

(1)

Questions to Think About

313

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

313

(2)

Power and Politics

315

(32)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

315

(1)

Power

316

(6)

Big Men and Chiefs

317

(1)

The Political Organization of Societies

318

(2)

Power Differentials

320

(2)

Social Control

322

(5)

Studying the Laws of Others

323

(3)

Cultural Norms

326

(1)

Doing Anthropology: Backpacks on Campus

327

(5)

Transgressions

328

(2)

Conflict Resolution

330

(2)

Focus Culture: Adjudication in a Kpelle Village

332

(2)

Patterns and Causes of War

334

(5)

Causes of War

336

(1)

The Nature of War

337

(2)

The Nature of Peace

339

(3)

The End of War

339

(3)

Peace as a Social Condition

342

(1)

Seeing Anthropology: The Cows of Dolo Ken Paye

342

(2)

Chapter Summary

344

(1)

Key Terms

345

(1)

Questions to Think About

345

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

345

(2)

Facing the Supernatural: Magic and Religion

347

(33)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

347

(1)

Looking for the Roots of Religion

348

(3)

Magic, Science, and Religion

349

(2)

Doing Anthropology: Magic, Science, and Religion

351

(3)

The Anxiety Theory of Religion

351

(1)

Sympathetic Magic

352

(2)

Sacred Power

354

(9)

Soul Matter

355

(1)

Mana and Taboo

356

(1)

Totems

357

(5)

Human Mediators of Sacred Powers

362

(1)

Focus Culture: Shamanism on the North Coast of Peru

363

(7)

Augury

369

(1)

Rituals

370

(4)

Rites of Passage

370

(3)

Rites of Intensification

373

(1)

World Religions and Local Practices

374

(1)

Seeing Anthropology: Eduardo the Healer

375

(2)

Chapter Summary

377

(1)

Key Terms

377

(1)

Questions to Think About

378

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

378

(2)

Culture Change

380

(23)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

380

(2)

Forces of Change

382

(7)

Change Due to Contact Through Trade

382

(1)

Diffusion

383

(2)

Modernization

385

(2)

Innovation: The Internal Dynamics of Change

387

(1)

Change in Language

387

(2)

Doing Anthropology: Nailing Down Language Change

389

(1)

Focus Culture: The Changing Trobriand Islands

389

(6)

Revitalization Movements

392

(3)

Indigenous Rights in a Changing World

395

(3)

Rights to Resources: Land and Water

395

(1)

Intellectual Property Rights

396

(2)

Transnationalism

398

(1)

Seeing Anthropology: Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism

398

(2)

Chapter Summary

400

(1)

Key Terms

401

(1)

Questions to Think About

401

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

402

(1)

Anthropology in the New Millennium

403

(23)

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology

403

(2)

Anthropology's Strengths and Contributions

405

(1)

Discovery Techniques

405

(1)

Key Anthropological Concepts

405

(1)

Three Circles of Anthropological Action

406

(2)

Expanding Knowledge Within Anthropology

406

(1)

Communicating Knowledge Within the Academy

406

(1)

Anthropology Reaches Beyond the Academy

407

(1)

Anthropological Analyses of Current Issues

408

(3)

Doing Anthropology: Headline Anthropology

411

(1)

New Directions in Applied Anthropology

411

(4)

Medical Anthropology

411

(4)

Focus Culture: The Suffering and Pain of the Khmer

415

(7)

Development Anthropology

418

(2)

Applied Anthropology in Other Areas

420

(1)

Studying Class, Power, and Inequality

420

(2)

Final Reflections

422

(1)

Seeing Anthropology: House of the Spirit: Perspectives On Cambodian Health Care

422

(2)

Chapter Summary

424

(1)

Key Terms

424

(1)

Questions to Think About

424

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

425

(1)

Appendix A: Thinking About Ethnographic Films

426

(8)

Appendix B: Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association

434

(7)

Glossary

441

(13)

Bibliography

454

(28)

Index

482

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