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Podolefsky: Applying Anthropology

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BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY


1. Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy - Robert Root-Bernstein and Donald L. McEachron, 1982
2. What are Friends For? - Barbara Smuts, 1987
3. What's Love Got to Do With It? - Meredith Small, 1992
4.*Mothers and Others - Sarah Blaffer Hardy, 2001
5.*Once We Were Not Alone - Ian Tattersall, 2000
6. Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs and Our Health - Elizabeth D. Whitaker, 1998
7.*Slumber's Unexplored Landscape - Bruce Bower, 1999
8. Ancient Genes and Modern Health - S. Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner - 1985
9. The Tall and the Short of It - Barry Bogin, 1998

ARCHAEOLOGY


10.*Battle of the Bones - Bonnichsen and Schneider, 2000
11. Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race - Jared Diamond, 1987
12. New Women of The Ice Age - Heather Pringle, 1998
13. Disease & Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds - Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos,1985
14. The Secrets of Ancient Tiwanaku Are Benefiting Today's Bolivia - Baird Straughan ,1991
15. Easter's End - Jared Diamond, 1995
16. Profile of an Anthropologist -- From Tikal to Tucson: Today's Garbage Is Tomorrow's Artifact - (Anthropology Newsletter), 1981
17. Food Waste Behavior in an Urban Population - Gail G. Harrison, William L. Rathje, and Wilson W. Hughes, 1975
18. Dawn of a New Stone Age Eye Surgery - Payson D. Sheets, 1987

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY


CULTURE AND FIELDWORK


19. Body Ritual among the Nacirema - Horace Miner, 1956
20. Letter from Peri - Manus II - Margaret Mead, 1970
21. Crack in Spanish Harlem - Philippe Bourgois, 1989
22. Tricking and Tripping : Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS - Claire E. Sterk, 2000
23. Profile -- Corporate Anthropologists - Jennifer J. Laabs, 1992

CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION


24. Shakespeare in the Bush - Laura Bohannan - 1966
25. *To Give Up Words: Silence in Western Apache Culture Keith Basso, 1970
26. A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication - Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker, 1982
27. Suite for Ebony and Phonics - John R. Rickford, 1997

CULTURE AND FOOD


28. You Are What you Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement - Jill Dubisch, 1981
29. Chinese Table Manners: You are How You Eat - Eugene Cooper, 1986
30. Culture and the Evolution of Obesity - Peter J. Brown, 1991

RACE AND ETHNICITY


31. Race without Color - Jared Diamond, 1994
32. Official Statement on "Race" - American Anthropological Association, 1997
33. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh, 1988
34. Of Kwanzaa, Cinco De Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education - Deborah Freedman Lustig, 1977

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS


35. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari - Richard Borshay Lee, 1969
36. Strings Attached - Lee Cronk, 1989
37. The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution - Gerald F. Murray, 1987
38. Using Cultural Skills for Cooperative Advantage in Japan - Richard H. Reeves-Ellington, 1993
39. *Profile - Anthropology in the Technology Industry - Greg Guest, 2001

GENDER AND SOCIALIZATION


40. *Our Babies, Ourselves - Meredith F. Small, 1997
41. Society and Sex Roles - Ernestine Friedl, 1978
42. Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man's Profession - Joan Cassell, 1997

KINSHIP, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY


43. When Brothers Share a Wife - Melvyn C. Goldstein, 1987
44. Law, Customs & Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India - John van Willigen and V. C. Channa, 1991
45. *African Polygyny: Family Values and Contemporary Changes, 1996

POLITICS, LAW AND WARFARE


46. Profile of an Anthropologist - Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service - Jeffery L. MacDonald, 1996
47. The Kpelle Moot - James L. Gibbs, Jr., 1963
48. Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands - Aaron Podolefsky, 1984

RELIGION, RITUAL AND CURING


49. *The Power of Islam - Lincoln Keiser, 1993
50. Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies - Wade Davis, 1985
51. AIDS as Human Suffering - Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman, 1989

CULTURAL CHANGE AND GLOBALIZATION


52. *Grappling with the "Female Circumcision" Controversy - Ellen Gruenbaum, 2001
53. Advertising and Global Culture - Noreene Janus, 1983
54. *How Sushi Went Global - Theodore C. Bestor, 2000
55. The Price of Progress - John H. Bodley, 1990


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