00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861772614 Buklod 20100628112330.0 a r |||| u| ta 160223s2009 nyuab rb |||| u|eng d 9780073405353 0073405353 (iLib)UPBAG-00007614777 BC-58796 Php4,726.00 DLC BAG rda eng GN 397.5 A69 2009 Applying anthropology an introductory reader [edited by] Aaron Podolefsky, Peter J. Brown, Scott M. Lacy. 9th ed. New York McGraw-Hill Higher Education ©2009. xix, 340 pages illustrations, maps 28 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1: Biological anthropology -- Teaching theories: the evolution-creation controversy -- Re-reading Root-Bernstein and McEachron in Cobb County, Georgia: a year past and present -- The human family tree has become a bush with many branches -- What are friends for? -- Mothers and others -- Great mysteries of human evolution -- Ancient bodies, modern customs, and our health -- Slumber's unexplored landscape -- Ancient genes and modern health -- The tall and the short of it -- Identifying victims after a disaster -- 2: Archaeology -- Battle of the bones -- The worst mistake in the history of the human race -- Uncovering America's pyramid builders -- New women of the Ice Age -- Disease and death as Dr. Dickson's mounds -- The secrets of ancient Tiwanaku are benefiting today's Bolivia -- "Clean your plate. There are people starving in Africa!": the application of archaeology and ethnography in America's food loss issues -- Dawn of a new Stone Age in eye surgery -- The challenge of race in American historical archaeology -- 3: Linguistic anthropology -- From heofonum to heavens -- Village of the deaf: in a Bedouin Town, a language is born -- "To give up on words": silence in Western Apache culture -- A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication -- 4: Cultural anthropology -- Culture and fieldwork: Body ritual among the Nacirema -- Race without color -- Shakespeare in the bush -- Eating Christmas in the Kalahari -- Family & kinship: How many fathers are best for a child? -- When brothers share a wife -- Our babies, ourselves -- Gender and sexuality: "Strange country this": an introduction to North American gender diversity -- Tricking and tripping: fieldwork on prostitution in the era of AIDS -- Law, custom, and crimes against women: the problem of Dowry death in India -- Health, medicine, and culture: Culture and the evolution of obesity -- Pocahontas goes to the clinic: popular culture as Lingua Franca in a cultural borderland -- Culture, poverty, and HIV transmission: the case of rural Haiti -- Circumcision, pluralism, and dilemmas of cultural relativism -- Work and business: Conflict and confluence in advertising meetings -- Coming of age in Palo Alto -- Just another job?: the commodification of domestic labor -- Conflict, law, and culture: The Kpelle Moot -- Contemporary warfare in the New Guinea highlands -- Army enlists anthropology in war zones -- Globalization and culture change: Do Muslim women really need saving?: anthropolioogical reflections on cultural relativism and its others -- Cell phones, sharing, and social status in an African society -- The price of progress -- Moral fibers of farmer cooperatives: creating poverty and wealth with cotton in southern Mali. Applied anthropology. Anthropology. Podolefsky, Aaron editor. Brown, Peter J. editor. Lacy, Scott M. editor. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN GN 397.5 A69 2009 Book