CONTENTS

Preface xi A Personal Note to Undergraduates xiii

Introduction

SECTION ONE Diversity and Divergence within the Anthropological Community 23

1. The Lone Stranger in the Heart of Darkness Philip Carl Salzman 29 Intellectual Roots 38

2. After the Critique of Ethnography: Faith, Hope, and Charity, but the Greatest of These Is Charity George E. Marcus 40 Intellectual Roots 52

3. The Dialectics of Deeds and Words Robert F. Murphy 55 Intellectual Roots 59

4. Cultural Materialism Is Alive and Well and Won't Go Away until Something Better Comes Along Marvin Harris 62 Intellectual Roots 75

SECTION TWO Enhancing the Comparative Perspective 77

5. Comparative Consciousness Laura Nader . 84 Intellectual Roots 94

6. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. . . The Once and Future Role of Anthropology: A Tentative Assessment Maurice Godelier 97 Intellectual Roots 109

7. Anthropological Futures Adam Kuper 113 Intellectual Roots 118

8. Some Biased Remarks on Interpretivism: A View from Brazil Roberto DaMatta 119 Intellectual Roots 131

9. The Anthropological Discourse on India: Reason and Its Other Veena Das 133 Intellectual Roots 143 viii CONTENTS

SECTION THREE Rethinking Past Perspectives 145

10. Humanity's Evolution and Anthropology's Future Roy A. Rappaport 153 Intellectual Roots 166

11. Methods Belong to All of Us H. Russell Bernard 168 Intellectual Roots 177

12. Person-Centered Anthropology Robert I. Levy 179 Intellectual Roots 188

13. Gender and Kinship Reconsidered: Toward a Unified Analysis Sylvia Yanagisako and Jane Collier 190 Intellectual Roots 200

14. Parts and Wholes: Refiguring Relationships Marilyn Strathem 204 Intellectual Roots 216

15. Facing Power: Old Insights, New Questions Eric R. Wolf 218 Intellectual Roots 228

16. Embodied Knowledge: Thinking with the Body in Critical Medical Anthropology Nancy Scheper-Hughes 229 Intellectual Roots 240

SECTION FOUR Rethinking the Cultural 243

17. Culture and Its Boundaries: A European View Jack Goody 250 Intellectual Roots 261

18. Toward a Working Theory of Culture Ward H. Goodenough 262 Intellectual Roots 274

19. Language, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science Maurice Bloch 276 Intellectual Roots 283

20. A Cognitive/Cultural Anthropology Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn 284 Intellectual Roots 297

21. Theories of Culture Revisited Roger M. Keesing 301 Intellectual Roots 310 CONTENTS

SECTION FIVE The Cultural in Motion 313 22. Actions, Variations, and Change: The Emerging Anti-Essentialist View in Anthropology Andrew P. Vayda 320 Intellectual Roots 329

23. On the Knowledge and Knowing of Cultural Activities Robert Borofsky 331 Intellectual Roots 347

24. A Personal View of Present Tasks and Priorities in Cultural and Social Anthropology Fredrik Barth 349 Intellectual Roots 361

25. The Ethnography of the Present and the Analysis of Process Sally Falk Moore 362 Intellectual Roots 375

26. Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History Marshall Sahlins 377 Intellectual Roots 394

27. Multilevel Linkages: Longitudinal and Comparatives Studies Conrad Kottak and Elizabeth Colson 396 Intellectual Roots 411

SECTION SIX Applying Anthropological Perspectives 413

28. Anthropology, Race, and Politics: A Conversation with Didier Eribon Claude Uvi-Strauss 420 Intellectual Roots 426

29. The Politics of Ethnicity Stanley J. Tambiah 430 Intellectual Roots 441

30. Inventions and Manifestations of Ethno-Nationalism in Soviet Academic and Public Discourse Valery A. Tishkov 443 Intellectual Roots 452

31. The Uses of Diversity Clifford Ceertz 454 Intellectual Roots 466

Assessing the Field 468

References 493 Name Index 543 Subject Index 553