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Best-selling author Ken Guest presents the essential readings and diverse voices that will help students understand their rapidly globalizing world. This concise, affordable reader is designed to complement any introductory syllabus and is the perfect companion to Guest's market-leading texts.

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• About the Author(p. iii)
• Preface(p. ix)
• Reading Ethnography(p. 1)
• Part 1 Anthropology for the 21st Century(p. 3)
• Chapter 1 Anthropology in a Global Age(p. 5)
• From The Land of Open Graves(p. 7)
• There Are No Peripheries to Humanity(p. 19)
• Min(d)ing the Body: On the Trail of Organ-Stealing Rumors(p. 32)
• Chapter 2 Culture(p. 42)
• Body Ritual among the Nacirema(p. 44)
• Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?(p. 49)
• From Behold the Black Caiman(p. 58)
• Chapter 3 Fieldwork and Ethnography(p. 70)
• From Number Our Days(p. 72)
• Portrait of a Himalayan Healer(p. 83)
• Chapter 4 Language(p. 94)
• Shakespeare in the Bush(p. 95)
• Literacy, Power, and Agency: Love Letters and Development in Nepal(p. 105)
• Part 2 Unmasking the Systems of Power(p. 113)
• Chapter 5 Race and Racism(p. 115)
• How Did Jews Become White Folks? Karen Brodkin Sacks(p. 116)
• "If We Didn't Have Water": Black Women's Struggle for Urban Land Rights in Brazil(p. 127)
• #Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States(p. 133)
• Chapter 6 Ethnicity and Nationalism(p. 145)
• "Landmine Boy" and Stupid Deaths(p. 147)
• From Mohawk Interruptus(p. 158)
• Chapter 7 Gender(p. 167)
• Tombois in West Sumatra(p. 169)
• The Egg and the Sperm(p. 179)
• Chapter 8 Sexuality(p. 190)
• From Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene(p. 191)
• Life During Wartime: Emotions and the Development of ACT UP(p. 202)
• Chapter 9 Kinship, Family, and Marriage(p. 213)
• When Brothers Share a Wife(p. 214)
• The Troubling Case of Nadya Suleman(p. 221)
• From Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene(p. 230)
• Chapter 10 Class and Inequality(p. 236)
• From Jibaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio(p. 238)
• Helping or Hindering? Controversies around the International Second-Hand Clothing Trade(p. 250)
• Part 3 Change in the Modern World(p. 259)
• Chapter 11 The Global Economy(p. 261)
• From Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor(p. 263)
• The Attraction of Numbers: Accounting for Ritual Expenditures in Fuzhou, China(p. 275)
• From Fool's Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan(p. 281)
• Chapter 12 Politics and Power(p. 286)
• Warfare Is Only an Invention-Not a Biological Necessity(p. 287)
• From Shadows of War(p. 294)
• From Polluted Promises(p. 303)
• Chapter 13 Religion(p. 316)
• Baseball Magic(p. 317)
• From Wall Street to Halal Street(p. 326)
• Liminal Youth Among Fuzhou Chinese Undocumented Workers(p. 337)
• Chapter 14 Health, Illness, and the Body(p. 348)
• Life and Times of Madga A(p. 350)
• From Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India(p. 361)
• Chapter 15 Art and Media(p. 373)
• Designer Vandalism: Indonesian Indie Fashion and the Cultural Practice of Cut 'n' Paste(p. 375)
• The BlackLight Project and Public Scholarship(p. 387)
• Glossary(p. A-1)
• References(p. A-5)
• Credits(p. A-21)
• Subject Index(p. A-25)
• Index(p. A-33)