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 determination in 1954, the way in which that American faculties taught approximately "race" replaced dramatically. this variation used to be engineered by way of the nation's such a lot well-known anthropologists, together with Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, in the course of international conflict II.

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

In line with 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 timber and the useless, and the inscription of feelings and the senses on a panorama of individuals, issues, and locations.

Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism

Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age

Conjures up scholars to imagine like anthropologists in a multicultural and worldwide age. masking the fundamental innovations that force cultural anthropology at the present time, Ken Guest’s Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for an international Age indicates scholars that now, greater than ever, international forces impact neighborhood tradition and that the instruments of cultural anthropology are necessary to dwelling in an international society.