Investigating culture : an experiential introduction to anthropology
Offers an approach to understanding culture as a constructed phenomenon open to investigation of its implicit premises and explicit forms. This book focuses on the ways that humans orient themselves, for example in space and time, according to language, food, the body, and the symbols provided by public myth and ritual.
Lehrbuch Kulturanthropologie
XI, 441 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm
9780631222361, 9780631222378, 0631222367, 0631222375
248824748
Acknowledgments.1. Disorientation and Orientation.Exercises.Selected Reading: Shakespeare in the Bush: Laura Bohannan.Resources.2. Space.Exercises.Selected Reading: The American Front Porch: Women's Liminal Space: Sue Bridwell Beckham.Resources.3. Time.Exercises.Selected Reading: Time is for Savoring: Ellen Goodman.Selected Reading: The Original Affluent Society: Marshall Sahlins.Resources.4. Language: We Are What We Speak.Exercises.Selected Reading: She Unnames Them: Ursula LeGuin.Selected Reading: Seeing is Believing: Alan Dundes.Resources.5. Relatives and Relations.Exercises.Selected Reading: Symbols of Category Membership: Penelope Eckert.Selected Reading: Kinship Systems: A.M. Hocart.Resources.6. Our Bodies, Ourselves.Exercises.Selected Reading: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema: Horace Miner.Resources.7. Food for Thought.Exercises.Selected Reading: You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement: Jill Dubisch.Resources.8. Clothing Matters.Exercises.Selected Reading: Alienation: Julio Ramon Ribeyro.Resources.9. VIPs: Very Important People, Places and Performances.Exercises.Selected Reading: The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man: Clifford Geertz.Resources.Photo Credits.Index