Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954

Among the flip of the 20 th century and the Brown v. Board of schooling choice in 1954, the way in which that American colleges taught approximately "race" replaced dramatically. this alteration used to be engineered by way of the nation's such a lot widespread anthropologists, together with Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, in the course of international warfare II.

The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani

According to years of fieldwork in either rural and concrete Greece, the final word explores women's cultural resistance as they weave jointly varied social practices: improvised antiphonic laments, divinatory dreaming, the care and tending of olive bushes and the useless, and the inscription of feelings and the senses on a panorama of individuals, issues, and areas.

Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism

Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age

Conjures up scholars to imagine like anthropologists in a multicultural and international age. masking the basic suggestions that force cultural anthropology this present day, Ken Guest’s Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for an international Age exhibits scholars that now, greater than ever, international forces have an effect on neighborhood tradition and that the instruments of cultural anthropology are necessary to dwelling in an international society.