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

Among the flip of the 20th 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 was once engineered via the nation's so much well-liked anthropologists, together with Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, in the course of international battle 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 assorted 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 people, 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 international age. protecting the fundamental techniques that force cultural anthropology at the present time, Ken Guest’s Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for an international Age exhibits scholars that now, greater than ever, worldwide forces impact neighborhood tradition and that the instruments of cultural anthropology are necessary to residing in an international society.