Reflecting on America : anthropological views of U.S. culture

Boulanger, Clare L. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780205481439
ISBN: 0205481434
Physical Description: print
xi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Boston, MA : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. The Land and its people. Introduction: We have met the Nacirema, and they are us(ans) / Clare L. Boulanger ; Usans: "The real people" confront globalization / Clare L. Boulanger --Pt. 2. Myth and ritual. A pilgrimage to the past: Civil War reenactors at Gettysburg / Matthew H. Amster ; Mining history: small town histories and celebrations among the Nacirema / Barry P. Michrina ; Metakinesis: how God becomes intimate in contemporary U.S. christianity / Tanya M. Luhrmann ; Paradise Is for pussies: Star Trek and the myth of the bad mother / Clare L. Boulanger ; Being vs. doing in international sports / Conrad P. Kottak -- pt. 3. Economy, society, power. Consuming America / Richard Wilk ; The button: not a simple notion / Paul Grebinger ; Consuming New Hampshire's nature: changing views of the White Mountains / John W. Burton ; The female world of cards and holidays: women, families, and the work of kinship / Micaela di Leonardo ; Fort Bragg on the verge of a new century: military restructuring, civilian camouflage, and hot peace / Catherine Lutz ; Explorations of class and consciousness in the United States / E. Paul Durrenberger ; Welcome to an East Harlem shooting gallery / Philippe Bourgois ; Mickey, Nicky, and Barbie: kinderculture in America / Richard H. Robbins --Pt. 4. Language and thought. Nuf and e-nuf among the Nacirema / Robert Myers ; Gunspeak: the influence of America's gun culture on everyday communication / Robert Myers ; American cultural denial: the CATs' compass / E.L. Cerroni-Long ; Dangerous assumptions of American culture / Mark Nathan Cohen.