Investigating culture: an experiential introduction to anthropology
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Acknowledgments xi
1 Disorientation and Orientation 1
Introduction; how culture provides orientation in the world; what is culture
and how do anthropologists investigate it? Learning to think anthropologically.
Exercises 24
Reading: Laura Bohannan, “Shakespeare in the Bush” 27
2 Spatial Locations 33
How do we situate or locate ourselves in space? Are notions of space “universal”
or are they shaped by culture? This chapter explores these questions from macro
to micro contexts, including discussion of maps, nations, segregation, public
spaces, invisible spacesy and that space that is no place: cyberspace.
Exercises 65
Reading: Sue Bridwell Beckham, “The American Front Porch:
Womens Liminal Space” 67
3 All We Have Is Time 79
Time is another major way we orient ourselves. What does it mean to be on
time, out of time, or in time? This chapter discusses different cultural notions
of time, the development of measuring time and clocks, the construction of the
Western calendar and its rootedness in a sacred worldview, and birthdays and
other markers of time.
Exercises 109
Reading: Ellen Goodman, “Time Is for Savoring” 111
viii Contents
4 Language: We Are What We Speak 113
Is language quintessentially human or do some other animals possess it?
Communication versus language. Writing. The symbolic function and
metaphor: Different languages, different worlds? The social function: What
information do you obtain from a persons speech? How are race, class, and
gender inflected in language?
Exercises 145
Reading: Ursula LeGuin, “She Unnames Them” 148
Reading: Alan Dundes, “Seeing Is Believing” 149
5 Relatives and Relations 155
Notions of kinship and kinship theory: To whom are we related and how?
Is there any truth to the idea that “blood is thicker than water ? What
constitutes a family? This chapter also discusses different meanings of
friendship, romantic relationships, and parent-child relationships.
Exercises 185
Reading: A. M. Hocart, “Kinship Systems” 188
6 Our Bodies, Our Selves 193
Are we our bodies or do we have bodies? Different concepts of the body, the
gendered body, the physical body, the social body. Techniques and
modifications of the body. Tattoos. Body parts and organ transplants. Traffic
in body parts. Body image, advertisements, and eating disorders. Bodies
before and after death.
Exercises 227
Reading: Horace Miner, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” 230
Reading: Deborah Kaspin, “Women Who Breed Like Rabbits and Other
Mythical Beasts: The Cultural Context of Family Planning in Malawi” 233
7 Food for Thought 239
What constitutes food? What makes a meal? What does it mean to say that
1food is love”? Relation of food to the environment. Fast food, slow food,
genetically modified food CFrankenfood”). Food and sex. Food and civility.
Food and religion. Cooking.
277
Exercises
Reading: Jill Dubisch, “You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of
the Health Food Movement”
279
Contents
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8 Clothing Matters 289
Clothing does more than cover the body; it is also a cultural index of age,
gender, occupation, and class. Is it then true that *clothes make the man ’?
Haute couture, sweat shops, clothing, and the economy.
Exercises 330
Reading: Julio Ramón Ribeyro, “Alienation (An Instructive Story with
a Footnote)” 333
·) VIPs: Very Important People, Places, and Performances 341
Certain people, places, events, and cultural practices become iconic; they
embody cultural myths or epitomize cultural values. Why are certain people
described as ťlarger than life”? Why are certain places sites of pilgrimage or
reverence? The global circulation of such icons.
Exercises 382
Reading: Clifford Geertz, “The Impact of the Concept of Culture
on the Concept of Man” 385
Index 397
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