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Table of Contents - ASSESSING CULTURAL

Preface

A Personal Note to Undergraduates

INTRODUCTION

I. DIVERSITY AND DIVERGENCE WITHIN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMMUNITY

1. The Lone Stranger in the Heart of Darkness by Philip Salzman

Intellectual Roots: Philip Salzman

2. After the Critique of : Faith, Hope, and Charity, But the Greatest of These is Charity by George Marcus

Intellectual Roots: George Marcus

3. The Dialectics of Deeds and Words by Robert Murphy

Intellectual Roots: Robert Murphy

4. Cultural Materialism is Alive and Well and Won't Go Away Until Something Better Comes Along by Marvin Harris

Intellectual Roots: Marvin Harris

II. ENHANCING THE COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

5. Comparative Consciousness by Laura Nader

Intellectual Roots: Laura Nader

6. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall . . . The Once and Future Role of Anthropology: A Tentative Assessment by

Intellectual Roots: Maurice Godelier

7. Anthropological Futures by Adam Kuper

Intellectual Roots: Adam Kuper

8. Some Biased Remarks on Interpretivism: A View from Brazil by Roberto DaMatta

Intellectual Roots: Roberto DaMatta

9. The Anthropological Discourse on India: Reason and Its Other by

Intellectual Roots: Veena Das

Table of Contents - III. RETHINKING PAST PERSPECTIVES

10. Humanity's and Anthropology's Future by Roy Rappaport

Intellectual Roots: Roy Rappaport

11. Methods Belong to All of Us by H. Russell Bernard

Intellectual Roots: H. Russell Bernard

12. Person-Centered Anthropology by Robert Levy

Intellectual Roots: Robert Levy

13. and Reconsidered by Sylvia Yanagisako and Jane Collier

Intellectual Roots: Sylvia Yanagisako Intellectual Roots: Jane Collier

14. Parts and Wholes: Refiguring Relationships by Marilyn Strathern

Intellectual Roots: Marilyn Strathern

15. Facing Power: Old Insights, New Questions by

Intellectual Roots: Eric Wolf

16. Embodied Knowledge by Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Intellectual Roots: Nancy Scheper-Hughes

IV. RETHINKING THE CULTURAL

17. and Its Boundaries: A European View by Jack Goody

Intellectual Roots: Jack Goody

18. Toward a Working Theory of Culture by Ward Goodenough

Intellectual Roots: Ward Goodenough

19. Language, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science by

Intellectual Roots: Maurice Bloch

20. A Cognitive Framework for a Unified Theory of Culture by Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn

Intellectual Roots: Claudia Strauss Intellectual Roots: Naomi Quinn

Table of Contents - 21. Theories of Culture Revisited by Roger Keesing

Intellectual Roots: Roger Keesing

V. THE CULTURAL IN MOTION

22. Actions, Variations and Change: The Emerging Anti-Essentialist View in Anthropology by Andrew P. Vayda

Intellectual Roots: Andrew P. Vayda

23. Knowing Knowing in Everyday Activities by Robert Borofsky

Intellectual Roots: Robert Borofsky

24. A Personal View of Present Tasks and Priorities in Social and by Fredrik Barth

Intellectual Roots: Fredrik Barth

25. The Ethnography of the Present and the Analysis of Process by Sally Falk Moore

Intellectual Roots: Sally Falk Moore

26. Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History by

Intellectual Roots: Marshall Sahlins

27. Multi-Level Linkages: Longitudinal and Comparatives Studies by Conrad Kottak and Elizabeth Colson

Intellectual Roots: Conrad Kottak Intellectual Roots: Elizabeth Colson

VI. APPLYING ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

28. Anthropology, Race, and Politics by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Intellectual Roots: Claude Lévi-Strauss

29. Ethnic Conflict in the World Today by Stanley Tambiah

Intellectual Roots: Stanley Tambiah

30. Inventions and Manifestations of Ethnonationalism in Soviet Academic and Public Discourse by Valery Tishkov

Intellectual Roots: Valery Tishkov

31. The Uses of Diversity by Clifford Geertz

Intellectual Roots: Clifford Geertz Table of Contents -

ASSESSING THE FIELD

References

Index