Table of Contents
About the Author iii
Preface ix
Reading Ethnography 1
Part 1 Anthropology for the 21st Century 3
Chapter 1 Anthropology in a Global Age 5
From The Land of Open Graves Jason De León 7
There Are No Peripheries to Humanity Edith Turner 19
Min(d)ing the Body: On the Trail of Organ-Stealing Rumors Nancy Scheper-Hughes 32
Chapter 2 Culture 42
Body Ritual among the Nacirema Horace Miner 44
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Lila Abu-Lughod 49
From Behold the Black Caiman Lucas Bessire 58
Chapter 3 Fieldwork and Ethnography 70
From Number Our Days Barbara Myerhoff 72
Portrait of a Himalayan Healer Sienna Craig 83
Chapter 4 Language 94
Shakespeare in the Bush Laura Bohannan 95
Literacy, Power, and Agency: Love Letters and Development in Nepal Laura Ahearn 105
Part 2 Unmasking the Systems of Power 113
Chapter 5 Race and Racism 115
How Did Jews Become White Folks? Karen Brodkin Sacks 116
"If We Didn't Have Water": Black Women's Struggle for Urban Land Rights in Brazil Keisha-Khan Perry 127
#Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States Yarimar Bonilla Jonathan Rosa 133
Chapter 6 Ethnicity and Nationalism 145
"Landmine Boy" and Stupid Deaths Paul Farmer 147
From Mohawk Interruptus Audra Simpson 158
Chapter 7 Gender 167
Tombois in West Sumatra Evelyn Blackwood 169
The Egg and the Sperm Emily Martin 179
Chapter 8 Sexuality 190
From Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene Bobby Benedicto 191
Life During Wartime: Emotions and the Development of ACT UP Deborah Gould 202
Chapter 9 Kinship, Family, and Marriage 213
When Brothers Share a Wife Melvyn Goldstein 214
The Troubling Case of Nadya Suleman Dána-Ain Davis 221
From Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Donna Haraway 230
Chapter 10 Class and Inequality 236
From Jibaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio Philippe Bourgois 238
Helping or Hindering? Controversies around the International Second-Hand Clothing Trade Karen Tranberg Hansen 250
Part 3 Change in the Modern World 259
Chapter 11 The Global Economy 261
From Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor Elizabeth Dunn 263
The Attraction of Numbers: Accounting for Ritual Expenditures in Fuzhou, China Julie Chu 275
From Fool's Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan Gillian Tett 281
Chapter 12 Politics and Power 286
Warfare Is Only an Invention-Not a Biological Necessity Margaret Mead 287
From Shadows of War Carolyn Nordstrom 294
From Polluted Promises Melissa Checker 303
Chapter 13 Religion 316
Baseball Magic George Gmelch 317
From Wall Street to Halal Street Daromir Rudnyckyj 326
Liminal Youth Among Fuzhou Chinese Undocumented Workers Kenneth J. Guest 337
Chapter 14 Health, Illness, and the Body 348
Life and Times of Madga A Didier Fassin Frédéric Le Marcis Todd Lethata 350
From Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India Michele Friedner 361
Chapter 15 Art and Media 373
Designer Vandalism: Indonesian Indie Fashion and the Cultural Practice of Cut 'n' Paste Brent Luvaas 375
The BlackLight Project and Public Scholarship Aimee Cox 387
Glossary A-1
References A-5
Credits A-21
Subject Index A-25
Index A-33
