Applied Anthropology for Undergraduates

This book offers the reader an account of the lived realities of allegiance, participation and belonging from the base of a multi-ethnic street in south London.

Culture on Tour analyzes a remarkable variety of tourist productions, ranging from safari excursions in Kenya and dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois.

Building on thirty-six years of experience with North Town, this ethnographic study of the small, predominantly Mexican American south Texas town, shows how the rituals involved in activities tend to preserve or reproduce class and gender inequalities, even as Mexicanos transform the racial order.

Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ideologies of Wall Street investment bankers, Ho describes how a financially dominant but highly unstable market system is understood, justified, and produced through the restructuring of corporations and the larger economy.

Sketching an ethnographic portrait of the village ion its own terms, and as an integral part of larger political and historical institutions, The Remembered Village is an exhaustive and detailed description of village life and the complexities of inter- and intra-caste relations.

Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s.

The most up-to-date and accessible text on the subject, Applied Anthropology provides the skills, perspectives, and methodologies needed when working in today's communities and organizations.

This new reader offers a collection of articles focusing on practicing anthropology at a time when readers are increasingly looking for ways to apply their anthropology degrees to their professional lives.

This volume contains 57 chapters from experienced forensic archaeological practitioners working in different countries, intergovernmental organisations or NGO s.