CONTENTS

Preface

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Culture and Ethnography

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Ethnography and Culture

JAMES P. SPRADLEY

Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

RICHARD BORSHAY LEE

Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS

CLAIRE E. STERK

Nice Girls Dont Talk to Rastas

12

GEORGE GMELCH

Language and Communication

5

Shakespeare in the Bush

15

18

LAURA BOHANNAN

Manipulating Meaning: The Military Name Game

20

SARAH BOXER

Conversation Style: Talking on the Job

23

DEBORAH TANNEN

Ecology and Subsistence

8

27

The Hunters: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari

30

RICHARD BORSHAY LEE

Illegal Logging and Frontier Conservation

34

NATHAN WILLIAMSON

10 We Are Going Underwater

38

SUSAN A. CRATE

11 Forest Development the Indian Way

42

RICHARD K. REED

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Economic Systems

45

12 Reciprocity and the Power of Giving

48

LEE CRONK

13 Poverty at Work: Office Employment and the Crack Alternative

51

PHILIPPE BOURGOIS

14 Women in the Mine

55

JESSICA SMITH ROLSTON

15 Malawi Versus the World Bank

58

SONIA PATTEN

Kinship and Family

61

16 Mother's Love: Death without Weeping

66

NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES

17 Family and Kinship in Village India

70

DAVID W. McCURDY

18 Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife

74

MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN

19 Marriage and Adulthood in West Africa

77

SUSANNA FIORATTA

Roles and Inequality

80

20 Negotiating Work and Family in America

84

DIANNA SHANDY AND KARINE MOE

21 Becoming Muslim in Europe

88

MIKAELA ROGOZEN-SOLTAR

22 Mixed Blood

92

JEFFREY M. FISH

23 Motorcycles, Membership, and Belonging

95

DAVID W. McCURDY

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Law and Politics

98

24 Cross-cultural Law: The Case of the Gypsy Offender

102

ANNE SUTHERLAND

25 Law and Order

105

JAMES P. SPRADLEY AND DAVID W. McCURDY

26 Navigating Nigerian Bureaucracies

108

ELIZABETH A. EAMES

27 Illegal Economies and the Untold Story of the Amputees

111

CAROLYN NORDSTROM

Religion, Magic, and World View

114

28 The Words Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal

118

RACHEL MUELLER

29 Baseball Magic

121

GEORGE GMELCH

30 Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage

124

JILL DUBISCH

31 Body Ritual among the Nacirema

128

HORACE MINER

Globalization

131

32 How Sushi Went Global

134

THEODORE C. BESTOR

33 Village Walks: Tourism and Globalization among the Tharu of Nepal

138

ARJUN GUNERATNE AND KATE BJORK

34 Nuer Refugees in America

142

DIANNA SHANDY

35 Global Women in the New Economy

146

BARBARA EHENREICH
AND ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD

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Using and Doing Anthropology

149

36 Advice for Developers: Peace Corps Problems in Botswana

153

HOYT S. ALVERSON

37 Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi

156

SONIA PATTEN

38 Public Interest Ethnography: Womens Prisons and Health Care in California

RACHAEL STRYKER

39 Using Anthropology

163

DAVID W. McCURDY

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PREFACE

This supplement has been developed especially for use with the Fifteenth Edition of Conformity
and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology. Included are summaries of each article, true or
false questions, and multiple choice questions. Answers for true or false questions are indicated
by the inclusion of a T or F before each question. The correct answer for each multiple-choice
question is listed below the question.
The addition of key concepts to Conformity and Conflict starting with the sixth edition has
permitted an expansion of the number and scope of questions about each article. Questions are
largely confined to the main ideas and facts presented in each article, but there are also some
questions written to test the relationship of key concepts with articles.
You may use the questions included in this supplement in at least three ways: in their present
form, in a form altered to meet your requirements, and as a source of ideas for new questions.
You may prefer to rewrite questions to fit your style, course content, and students. Most instructors use the selections in Conformity and Conflict to illustrate course concepts and theory. It is
often possible to work material from lectures, a text, or other sources into the framework of
questions included in this manual.
Finally, you may want to use the questions presented here as a source of ideas for new questions.
It may be possible to ask something using a simpler and clearer question frame. Ideas for new
question topics often emerge from a review of old test items. However you decide to use them, I
hope that the article summaries, concept definitions, and questions presented here will be helpful
to you.

David McCurdy

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