Appendix A: Recommended Readings
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- Bohannan, Laura. "Shakespeare in the Bush"
- Nelson, Richard. "Understanding Eskimo Science"
- Lévi Strauss, Claude. "The Science of the Concrete" from The Savage Mind
1.2: The Four Fields
Lee, Richard Borshay. "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari"
2.1: Evolution
- Shermer, Michael. "The Facts of Evolution" from Why Darwin Matters
2.2: Our Primate Relatives
- de Waal, Frans. "One for All" (Scientific American, 2014)
- Stanford, Craig. "Got Culture?" from The New Chimpanzee
2.3: Biological Humans
- Gadsby, Patricia. "The Inuit Paradox"
- Heinrich, Joseph. "What Are Big Brains For? Or, How Culture Stole Our Guts" from The Secret of Our Success
- Stix, Gary. "The 'It' Factor" (Scientific American, 2014)
2.4: Today's Human Variation
- Hawks, John. "Still Evolving (After All These Years)" (Scientific American, 2014)
- Mukhopadhyay, Carol and Rosemary C. Henze. "How Real Is Race? Using Anthropology to Make Sense of Human Diversity" (Phi Delta Kappan, 2003)
3.1: What is Culture?
- Miner, Horace. "Body Ritual among the Nacirema"
3.2: Participant Observation
- Chagnon, Napoleon A. "Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo" from The Yanomamo
- Rosaldo, Renato. "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage"
- Shermer, Michael. "Spin-Doctoring the Tanomamö" (Skeptic, 2001)
3.3: Myth, Magic, and Ritual
- Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan. Excerpts from "The Notion of Witchcraft explains Unfortunate Events" from Witchcraft, Oracles, And Magic Among The Azande
- Freed, Stanley A. and Ruth S. Freed. "Taraka's Ghost" (Natural History, 1999)
- Gmelch, George. "Baseball Magic" (Elysian Fields Quarterly, 1992)
- Saitoti, Tepilit Ole. "The Initiation of a Maasai Warrior" (originally "My Circumcision" from The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior)
- Sosis, Richard. "The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual" (American Scientist, 2004)
3.4: Exchange and Social Systems
- Counts, David. "Too Many Bananas, Not Enough Pineapples, and No Watermelon at All" from The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales from the Pacific
- Harris, Marvin. "Life Without Chiefs" (New Age Journal, 1989)
- Mauss, Marcel. Excerpts from The Gift.
3.5: Marriage and Kinship
- Goldstein, Melvyn C. "When Brothers Share a Wife" (Natural History, 1987)
- Nanda, Serena. "Arranging a Marriage in India" from Stumbling Toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work
- Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. "Death Without Weeping" (Natural History, 1989)
- Small, Meredith F. "Our Babies, Ourselves"
- Yuan, Lu and Sam Mithcell. "Land of the Walking Marriage" (Natural History, 2000)
3.6: Insider, Outsider, and Identity
- Fish, Jeffrey M. "Mixed Blood" (Psychology Today, 1995)
- Nanda, Serena. "The Hijras: An Alternative Gender in India" (Manushi, 1992)
- Shandy, Dianna and Karine Moe. "The Opt-Out Phenomenon: Women, Work, and Identity in America"
- Simmons, Ann M. "Where Fat is a Mark of Beauty" (LA Times, 1998)
- Williams, Walter L. "The Berdache Tradition"
4.1: Material Culture
- Rogers, Deborah. "The Evolution of Inequality"
- Tucker, Abigail. "The Great New England Vampire Panic"
4.2: Excavation and Context
- Anderson, Sonja. "Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain’s Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment"
- Lyman, R. Lee. "A Historical Sketch on the Concepts of Archaeological Association, Context, and Provenience"
4.3: Interpretation and Ethics
- Atalay, Sonya, Jennifer Shannon, and John G. Swogger. Journeys to Complete the Work... And changing the way we bring Native American ancestors home.
- Bonnichsen, Robson and Alan L. Schneider. "Battle of the Bones"
- Pringle, Heather. "New Evidence Ties Illegal Antiquities Trade to Terrorism, Violent Crime"
5.1: Language and Society
- Pagel, Mark. "War of Words"
- Tannen, Deborah. "Conversation Style: Talking on the Job"
- Tannen, Deborah. "Why Don't You Say What You Mean?"
5.2: Language Change and Digital Communication
- Abu-Lughod, Lila. "The Interpretation of Culture(s) After Television"
- Boroditsky, Lera. "How Language Shapes Thought"
- Mellor, Belle. "Anthropologists Investigate Communications Technology"
- Posner, Eric. "A Terrible Shame"
- Yong, Ed. "Armor against Prejudice"
6.1: Putting Anthropology to Good Use
- Farmer, Paul and Arthur Kleinman. "AIDS as Human Suffering"
- McCurdy, David. "Using Anthropology"
- Omohundro, John. T. "Career Advice for Anthropology Undergraduates"
- Silltoe, Paul. "Anthropologists Only Need Apply: Challenges of Applied Anthropology"
6.2: Contemporary Issues
- Moore Lappé, Frances. "Why Can't People Feed Themselves?"
- Janus, Noreene. "Advertising and Global Culture"
- Ofri, Danielle. "Heidi Larson, Vaccine Anthropologists"
- Patten, Sonia. "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi"
- Nietschmann, Bernard. "When the Turtle Collapses"
- Reed, Richard K. "Forest Development the Indian Way"