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Researching American Culture: A Guide for Student Anthropologists
University of Michigan Press, 1982 Paper: 978-0-472-08024-3 Library of Congress Classification E169.12.R47 1982 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.0973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Applies anthropological techniques to the study of contemporary American behavior
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Researching American Culture: A Guide for Student Anthropologists
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edited by Conrad Phillip Kottak
University of Michigan Press, 1982
Paper: 978-0-472-08024-3
Paper: 978-0-472-08024-3
Applies anthropological techniques to the study of contemporary American behavior
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Conrad Phillip Kottak holds a doctorate from Columbia University and is chairman of the graduate program in anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is author of two major introductory textbooks, Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity and Cultural Anthropology, and an advanced study, The Past in the Present: History, Ecology, and Cultural Variation in Highland Madagascar.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Introduction
- Kottak, Conrad Phillip
- Part One
- Researching Contemporary American Culture
- 1
- A Guide for Anthropological Fieldwork on Contemporary American Culture
- Tosuner-Fikes, Lebriz
- 2
- Brief Guide to Presentation of Field Research
- Place, Linda
- Part Two
- Unifying Themes in Contemporary American Culture: Analysis of the Mass Media by Etic, Structural, Symbolic, and Neo-Freudian Techniques
- 3
- Anthropological Analysis of Mass Enculturation
- Kottak, Conrad Phillip
- 4
- Culture Meets Nature on the Six O'clock News: An Example of American Cosmology
- McKinley, Robert
- 5
- American Attitudes Toward the Human Body and the Natural World and American Values: You Can't Improve on Nature and Ain't Modern Science Grand?
- Thompson, Gale
- 6
- Structural and Psychological Analysis of Popular American Fantasy Films
- Kottak, Conrad Phillip
- 7
- The Father Strikes Back
- Kottak, Conrad Phillip
- 8
- Approaches to the Analysis of Myth, Illustrated by West Side Story and “Snow White”
- Thompson, Gale
- 9
- A Neo-Freudian Analysis of the Hardy Boys Mystery Series
- Wasylyshyn, John
- 10
- An Analysis of American Culture as Presented in Two Hardy Boys Books That Differ in Time
- Wasylyshyn, John
- Part Three
- Research Projects: Observation of Public Behavior, Researchers' Study of Their Own Groups, Interviewing, and Hypothesis Testing
- 11
- High School Peer Group Classification Systems
- Robins, Lynne S.
- 12
- Clothing and Geography in a Suburban High School
- Eckert, Penelope
- 13
- Jest Deserts: Audience Reactions to Puns
- Meltzer, William J.
- 14
- Reactions of Racquetball Players to Lost Points
- Schlesinger, Kenneth
- 15
- Social Class, Tipping, and Alcohol Consumption in an Ann Arbor Cocktail Lounge
- Faber, Suzanne
- 16
- Right-Handedness among Ann Arbor Residents, as Expressed Particularly in Financial Institutions
- Magliano, Gail
- 17
- Death, the Final Passage: A Case Study in American Mortuary Custom
- O'Brien, Terrence Patrick
- 18
- Social Stratification by Sex in University Classroom Interaction
- Jo Larson, Mary
- 19
- Gender Term Use among Collegiate Women
- Van de Graaf, Tina
- Chinni, Francine
- 20
- Rites of Passage on an American High School Swim Team
- McClafferty, Eric
- Part Four
- Content Analysis of the Mass Media: Sex-Role Stereotyping and Other American Values
- 21
- Blaming the Victim: Ideology and Sexual Discrimination in the Contemporary United States
- Margolis, Maxine
- 22
- A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
- Rentz, Patricia M.
- 23
- The 1980 Lady as Depicted in TV Commercials
- Hesseltine, Patricia
- 24
- Blacks on Daytime Television
- Hill, Christina D.
- 25
- The Popularity of Sports in America: An Analysis of the Values of Sports and the Role of the Media
- Diez, Fermin
- References Cited
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