Cultures in Contact
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 142
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 142
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This anthology has been assembled as a text for an anthropology course titled Contemporary Non-Western Cultures. The mission of this course is to help students achieve a better understanding of cultural diversity in the modern world.
There are several themes that will be seen running through the various units. These themes are modernization, commercialization, and globalization. The five areas that are covered in the text are: North America, South America, Africa (including parts of the Middle East), Oceania, and Japan.
In each of the area sections there will be a discussion of the natural and social environments of native cultures before and after contact, the nature of subsequent changes, and how these cultures are presently adjusting to the impact of modern sources of change. The articles in the text have been selected to offer reflections on these different topics from varying points of view.
Unit I
Introduction to Anthropology and the Study
of Culture Contact and Change
Fagan : “Prologue”
Cornish: “Participant Observation on a Motorcycle”
Plotkin: “Shamans”
Miner: “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”
Bestor: “How Sushi Went Global”
Mankiller: “Being Indigenous in the 21st Century”
Unit II
North America and South America
North America
Diamond: “The Arrow of Disease”
Dobkins: “Corresponding with Power: Letters Between
Indian Mothers and Federal Offi cials”
Lake: “An Indian Father’s Plea”
Bodley: “Creating Nunavut”
Little Finger: “We Walk on our Ancestors: The Sacredness
of the Black Hills”
South America
Mayberry-Lewis: “One Step Forward-Two Steps Back Shavante Women
of Central Brazil, 1958–1982”
Unit III
Africa and Oceania
Africa
Thiongo: “Decolonising the Mind”
Schildkrout: “Schooling and Seclusion”
Cronk and Leech: “Where is Koisia?”
Abu-Lughod: “Change and Egyptian Bedouins”
Oceania
Sorenson: “Growing Up as a Fore Is to Be ‘In Touch’ and Free”
Unit IV
Tasmania, Australia, Japan and Conclusions
Cheater: “Stolen Girlhood: Australia’s Assimilation
Policies and Aboriginal Girls”
Condry: “Japanese Hip-Hop and the Globalization
of Popular Culture”
Conclusion
Bodley: “The Price of Progress”