Contents:

1. Culture and ethnography : Ethnography and culture / James P. Spradley --

Eating Christmas in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee --

Fieldwork on prostitution in the era of AIDS / Claire E. Sterk --

Nice girls don't talk to rastas / George Gmelch --

2. Language and communication : Shakespeare in the Bush / Laura Bohannan --

Whorf revisited : you are what you speak / Guy Deutscher --

Manipulating meaning : the military name game / Sarah Boxer --

Conversation style : talking on the job / Deborah Tannen --

3. Ecology and subsistence : The hunters : scarce resourcse in the Kalahari / Richard Borshay Lee --

Eskimo science / Richard Nelson --

Domestication and the evolution of disease / Jared Diamond --

Forest development the Indian way / Richard K. Reed --

4. Economic systems : Reciprocity and the power of giving / Lee Cronk --

Poverty at work : office employment and the crack alternative / Philippe Bourgois --

Cocaine and the economic deterioration of Bolivia / Jack Weatherford --

Malawi versus the World Bank / Sonia Patten --

5. Kinship and family : Mother's love : death without weeping / Nancy Scheper-Hughes --

Family and kinship in village India / David W. McCurdy --

Polyandry : when brothers take a wife / Melvyn C. Goldstein --

Uterine families and the women's community / Margery Wolf --

6. Identity, roles, and groups : You@work : jobs, identity, and the Internet / Brenda Mann --

The opt-out phenomenon : women, work, and identity in America / Dianna Shandy, Karine Moe --

Do Muslim women really need saving? / Lila Abu-Lughod --

Mixed blood / Jefferson M. Fish --

7. Law and politics : Cross-cultural law : the case of the gypsy offender / Anne Sutherland --

Life without chiefs / Marvin Harris --

The founding Indian fathers / Jack Weatherford --

8. Religion, magic, and world view : Taraka's ghost / Stanley A. Freed, Ruth S. Freed --

Baseball magic / George Gmelch --

Run for the wall : an American pilgrimage / Jill Dubisch --

Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner --

9. Globalization : How sushi went global / Theodore C. Bestor --

Village walks : tourism and globalization among the Tharu of Nepal / Arjun Guneratne, Kate Bjork --

The road to refugee resettlement / DIanna Shandy --

Global women in the new economy / Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild --

10. Culture change and applied anthropology : Advice for developers : Peace Corps problems in Botswana / Hoyt S. Alverson --

Medical anthropology : leprosy on the Ganges / Ron Barrett --

Public interest ethnogoraphy : women's prisons and health care in California / Rachael Stryker --

Using anthropology / David W. McCurdy --

Career advice for anthropology undergraduates / John T. Omohundro.