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This supplementary reader is composed of 38 classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the significant contributions that cultural anthropologists make; the emphasis is on the applicability of cultural anthropology to understanding and improving the present day human condition. Whether debating the merits of a career in anthropology or questioning why the subject should be studied, students will grow to appreciate anthropology's widespread uses, from conducting market research to working with refugee communities.

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• Culture And Fieldwork
• 1 Body Ritual Among Nacirema
• 2 *Slumber's Unexplored Landscape
• 3 Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS
• 4 Crack in Spanish Harlem
• 5 Profile of an Anthropologist
• Corporate Anthropologists
• Culture And Communication
• 6 Shakespeare in the Bush
• 7 To Give Up on Words: Silence in Western Apache Culture Keith Basso, 1970
• 8 A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication
• 9 Suite for Ebony and Phonics
• Culture And Food
• 10 Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health
• 11 Chinese Table Manners: You are How You Eat
• 12 Culture and the Evolution of Obesity
• Culture And Agriculture
• 13 The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
• 14 The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution
• 15 Two Rights Make a Wrong: Indigenous Peoples Versus Environmental Protection Agencies
• Race And Ethnicity
• 16 Race without Color
• 17 Official Statement on "Race"
• American Anthropological Association, 1997
• 18 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• 19 Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education
• Deborah Freedman Lustig, 1997
• Economy And Business
• 20 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
• 21 Strings Attached
• 22 Using Cultural Skills for Cooperative Advantage in Japan Richard H. Reeves-Ellington - 1993
• 23 Family Planning Outreach and Credit Programs in Rural Bangladesh
• 24 *Profile - Anthropology in the Technology Industry
• Gender And Socialization
• 25 Society and Sex Roles
• 26 *Our Babies, Our Selves
• 27 New Women of The Ice Age
• 28 Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man's Profession
• Marriage And Gender Relations
• 29 When Brothers Share a Wife
• 30 African Polygyny: Family Values and Contemporary Changes
• 31 Law, Custom, and Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India
• Politics, Law And Warfare
• 32 PROFILE of an Anthropologist: Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service
• 33 The Kpelle Moot
• 34 Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands
• Religion, Ritual And Curing
• 35 The Power of Islam
• 36 Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies
• 37 Aids as Human Suffering
• Social And Cultural Change
• 38 Circumcision, Pluralism, and Dilemmas of Cultural Relativism
• 39 Advertising and Global Culture
• 40 How Sushi Went Global
• 41 The Price of Progress
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