Description

Seeing Anthropology continues to be the only cultural anthropology text available that allows for easy integration of ethnographic films into the introductory cultural anthropology course.

Visual anthropologists and contributors, Pamela Blakely and Thomas Blakely, professors who have taught many classes with each edition of this textbook and its films, bring their expertise in Ethnographic Methods, African Studies, Comparative Religion, and Women’s Studies to the editing of the fourth edition.

This text truly incorporates films within the text by blending textbook content with sixteen ethnographic film clips that are put in the hands of each student through individual VHS tapes or DVDs.

Susan Buck Sutton, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis says, “The greatest strengths of this text are its unique and skillful use of film clips to enhance student learning…I can think of no better way to extend student learning in anthropology than the use of films…”

Features

• Features the readable, personal writing style of Karl Heider, the preeminent authority on ethnographic film. 
• Visual anthropologists and contributors, Pamela Blakely and Thomas Blakely, professors who have taught many classes with each edition of this textbook and its films, bring their expertise in Ethnographic Methods, African Studies, Comparative Religion, and Women’s Studies to the editing of the fourth edition.
• Each film in the collection is carefully selected to illustrate the subject of the chapter it accompanies.  The short clip provides ethnographic data and analysis that can be viewed and reviewed. 
• A “Focus Culture” section in each chapter of the text presents an in-depth account of a culture that emphasizes the topic discussed in the chapter. Each “Focus Culture” section is accompanied by a culture overview chart and locator map.  For each chapter, the ethnographic film is about the focus culture.
• A “Seeing Anthropology” section in each chapter gives information about the film, including set-up questions for the student to answer after viewing and studying the clip.   Set-up questions help guide students in developing their own insights as well as reinforcing key concepts in cultural anthropology.
• “Hollywood-Style Anthropology,” a section at the end of each chapter, describes a feature film that relates to the chapter’s topic.  These films bring to life for students how popular films commonly grapple with anthropological concepts and problems.  The feature films selected for the fourth edition include six new films:  Whale Rider, Bend It Like Beckham, Amistad, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Rabbit Proof Fence, and The Cup.  Each film description is accompanied by setup questions to enhance students’ ability to see the relevance to particular chapters and anthropological concepts. 
• “Doing Anthropology” exercises in each chapter can be done as homework and engage students in active consideration of the issues at hand.
• Flexible ordering options! The ethnographic film clips are available on DVD or VHS.  Instructors may choose the format most useful for their students or split their textbook order to offer both options for students. Instructors may also order the textbook alone. Contact your publisher's representative to discuss these options.  

New to this Edition

• Visual anthropologists and contributors, Pamela Blakely and Thomas Blakely, professors who have taught many classes with each edition of this textbook and its films, bring their expertise in Ethnographic Methods, African Studies, Comparative Religion, and Women’s Studies to the editing of the fourth edition.
• The clips for the films Appeals to Santiago , N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman, and House of Spirit have been substantially revised to optimize the relevance of the clip to the chapter.  Other clips have also been edited for chapter topic clarity, and the total number of films has been increased from fourteen to sixteen.
• T wo new focus cultures are introduced through two new ethnographic film selections and new related pages in the text.  El Sebou’ examines an Egyptian birth ritual in Cairo, a rite of passage practiced by both Muslims and Christians (Chapter 11). Dadi’s Family elucidates roles and relationships in a North Indian joint family (Chapter 8).  These additions introduce students to vitally important regions of the world that are prominent in current affairs.
• Four new ethnographic film selections examine the cultures of India, Egypt, Bali and Japan.
• The “Press Watch: Headline Anthropology” feature has been updated to include only references from 2003 and later. These real-life news clippings help students appreciate how often cultural anthropology and its concerns appear in the daily news.
• The Focus Culture section pertaining to the Ju/’hoansi (San “Bushmen”) in Chapter 12 has been updated to reflect their change in subsistence strategies from foraging to farming and some animal husbandry, or employment as laborers.
• The film Eduardo the Healer and the focus culture Peru have been removed from Chapter 12 in the previous edition. Farm Song has been removed from Chapter 8, “Marriage and Family.” Japan remains as a focus culture associated with the film Neighborhood Tokyo, now in Chapter 3.
• A revised Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank provides a complete description of each film in the collection, additional films, and invaluable teaching tips based on the author’s and contributors’ wealth of experience teaching with film.

Table of Contents

Each chapter concludes with a “Chapter Summary,” “Key Terms,” “Questions to Think About,” and “Suggestions for Further Reading.”

1. The Study of Human Diversity.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Introduction.

The Fields of Anthropology.

Anthropology and Other Disciplines.

Key Concepts in Anthropology.

Doing Anthropology: Find the Connections.

Focus Culture: Finding the Connections in Contemporary Bali.

Seeing Anthropology: The Goddess and the Computer.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Cultural Interaction in “Passage to India.”

2. Understanding Culture.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Defining Culture.

Focus Culture: Shared Malay Traditions and Local Variations.

Doing Anthropology: Societies, Cultures, and Subcultures.

The Concept of Race.

The Interaction of Biology and Culture.

Seeing Anthropology: Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex in Malaysia.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Cultural Construction of Race in Rabbit-Proof Fence.

3. Doing Anthropology: Fieldwork and Theories.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Doing Fieldwork.

Focus Culture: Fieldwork Among the Grand Valley Dani of Irian Jaya, Indonesia (West New Guinea).

Focus Culture: Complexities of Japanese Culture.

Seeing Anthropology: Fieldwork in Neighborhood Tokyo.

Writing an Ethnography.

Anthropological Theories: How We Account for Cultural Behavior.

Doing Anthropology: Recognizing the Theory.

Seeing Anthropology: Fieldwork Among the Grand Valley Dani: Dead Birds.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Different Versions in Rashomon.

4. Meanings: Language, Symbols, and Art.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Language.

Doing Anthropology: Full-Channel Shakespeare.

Symbols, Art, and Identity.

Focus Culture: Art and Ceremony of the Kwa Kwaka' Wakw of the Northwest Coast.

Seeing Anthropology: Art and Identity of the Kwa Kwaka’Wakw: Box of Treasures.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: The Cultural Translation of Darmok.

5. Psychology and Culture.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Cultures, Personality, and the Self.

Focus Culture: Cultural Themes in Vietnam.

Learning Styles.

Cognition.

Doing Anthropology: A New Intelligence Test.

Emotions.

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Themes in Vietnam: How to Behave (Chuyen Tute).

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Individualism and Groupism in Mr. Baseball.

6. Patterns of Production.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Cultural Adaptation and Production.

The Division of Labor.

Food Production Strategies.

Focus Culture: Horticulture of the Grand Valley Dani.

Doing Anthropology: Food Production Strategies in a Supermarket Culture.

Seeing Anthropology: A Horticultural Strategy: Dani Sweet Potatoes.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Family Farms in The Milagro Beanfield War.

7. Distribution and Consumption.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Distribution: Mechanisms of Exchange.

Focus Culture: The Redistributive Cargo System of the Zinacantan Mayans of Chiapas, Mexico.

Seeing Anthropology: Appeals to Santiago.

Doing Anthropology: Your Own Transactions.

Consumption-Food.

Doing Anthropology: Global Consumption.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: The Mystique of Food in Tampopo.

8. Marriage and Family.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Definitions and Functions of Marriage.

Forms of Marriage.

Doing Anthropology: Schemas of Love and Marriage.

Marriage as Exchange.

Marriage Rules.

Focus Culture: Marriage and Family in India.

Family and Household Forms.

Postmarital Residence Patterns.

Changing Family Forms in Western Cultures.

Seeing Anthropology: A Joint Family in North India: Dadi’s Family .

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Family Forms in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

9. Social Organization and Kinship.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Class as Category.

Descent Groups.

Focus Culture: Patrilineal Descent of the Nuer of the Upper Nile.

Kinship Terminology Systems.

Non-kin Groupings.

Doing Anthropology: A Second Look at Your Social Groups.

Seeing Anthropology: Social Organization and The Nuer.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Social Organization in Whale Rider.

10. Power and Politics.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Power.

Social Control.

Doing Anthropology: Backpacks on Campus.

Focus Culture: Adjudication in a Kpelle Village.

Seeing Anthropology: The Cows of Dolo Ken Paye: Resolving Conflict among the Kpelle.

Patterns and Causes of War.

The Nature of Peace.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Slavery, Revolt, and Adjudication in Amistad.

11. Facing the Supernatural: Magic, Religion, and Ritual

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Looking for the Roots of Religion.

Doing Anthropology: Magic, Science, and Religion.

Sacred Power.

Rituals.

World Religions and Local Practices.

Focus Culture: Religion and Ritual in Egypt.

Seeing Anthropology: El Sebou’, Egyptian Birth Ritual.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Tibetan Buddhism in The Cup (Phörpa).

12. The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Differentiating Sexuality and Gender.

How Many Genders? How Many Sexualities? The Puzzle of Homosexuality.

The Role of Gender in Society.

Manifestations of Sexuality.

Doing Anthropology: Expressive Clothing.

Sexual Ethos.

Focus Culture: Gender and Sexuality of the Ju/'hoansi.

Seeing Anthropology: N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Bend it Like Beckham: Femininity and Football in Multicultural Britain.

13. Culture Change.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Forces of Change.

Doing Anthropology: Nailing Down Language Change.

Focus Culture: The Changing Trobriand Islands.

Indigenous Rights in a Changing World.

Seeing Anthropology: Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Rediscovering Native American Cultural Identity in Smoke Signals.

14. Medical Anthropology and the Future.

Press Watch: Headline Anthropology.

Medical Anthropology.

Seeing Anthropology: Indigenous Interpretation and Treatment of Illness: The Medium is the Masseuse, A Balinese Massage.

Focus Culture: The Suffering and Pain of the Khmer.

Seeing Anthropology: House of Spirit: Perspectives on Cambodian Health Care.

The Anthropology of HIV/AIDS.

Doing Anthropology: Illness and Culture.

Final Thoughts.

Hollywood-Style Anthropology: Medical Anthropology and “Medicine Man.”

Appendix: Thinking About Ethnographic Films.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index.

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Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film

Karl G. Heider, University of South Carolina, with contributions by Pamela A. R. Blakely, Reading Area Community College and University of Pennsylvania, and Thomas D. Blakely, Pennsylvania State University

Seeing Anthropology continues to be the only cultural anthropology text available that allows for easy integration of ethnographic films into the introductory cultural anthropology course.

Visual anthropologists and contributors, Pamela Blakely and Thomas Blakely, professors who have taught classes with each edition of this textbook and its films, bring their expertise in ethnographic methods, African studies, comparative religion, and women’s studies to this  new edition.

What Reviewers Are Saying

Ethnographic film is integral to teaching cultural anthropology and engaging students in a multidimensional, sensory experience of culture. Through ethnographic films, students gain a better understanding of the work that anthropologists do by seeing it in fieldwork settings…Students get to see people living and working in their cultures and hear languages from across the globe. This is an important dimension of becoming aware of and appreciating cross-cultural differences.

–Brooke Olson, Ithaca College

Seeing Anthropology is a comprehensive and clearly written textbook for introductory sociocultural anthropology classes. I especially appreciated the use of films in the clarification and amplification of concepts. The range and scope of the topics including their relevance to present day concerns are laudable in the face of [an] ever-changing world. Indeed, to have a sociocultural anthropology introductory text that is both informative and challenging at the same time is quite a feat.

–Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois

Heider is a good communicator and a good writer. He is an interesting person and does a good job of communicating anthropology in an accessible and interesting manner. The book is written in plain language without being simplistic and does a good job of using the jargon of anthropology where necessary without overwhelming the reader.

–Adam King, University of South Carolina