Discovering anthropology : researchers at work-- cultural anthropology / [edited by] Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007. - v, 249 p. : map ; 28 cm.

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From ethnographer to comparativist and back again / Nadi : from cattle-keepers to cash-crop farmers / Abelam : giant yams and cycles of sex, warfare, and ritual / On cross-cultural research / Do apes have language? / Han : pastoralists and farmers on a Chinese frontier / Yanomamö : varying adaptations of foraging agriculturalists / Haitians : from political repression to chaos / Andean Mestizos : growing up female and male / Rotuma : interpreting a wedding / Cherokee : the European impact on the Cherokee culture / Chinatowns : immigrant communities in transition / Iroquois : the tree of peace and the war kettle / Morocco : adolescents in a small town / Bakairí : the death of an Indian / Nimpkish : complex foragers on the northwest coast of North America / North Alaskan Eskimos : a changing way of life / Shaman to organizations / Saraguro : medical choices, medical changes / Human rights violations / Terence E. Hays -- Regina Smith Oboler -- Richard Scaglion -- Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember -- Jane H. Hill -- Burton Pasternak -- Raymond B. Hames -- Robert Lawless -- Lauris A. McKee -- Alan Howard and Jane Rensel -- William L. Anderson -- Richard H. Thompson -- Thomas Abler -- Susan Schaefer Davis -- Debra Picchi -- Donald Mitchell -- Ernest S. Burch Jr. -- Andrew W. Miracle -- Ruthbeth Finerman -- Paul C. Rosenblatt. A

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Ethnology--Research.
Cross-cultural studies.

GN345 / .D57 2007

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