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Culture Sketches: Case Studies in Anthropology, 4/e

Holly Peters-Golden, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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This edition updates most chapters to include recent ethnographic information. Each updated case contains an expanded discussion of the contemporary situation of the group. (The Preface describes the updates in detail.)
The revision includes a new map for each chapter showing the location of the group in its region. A world map following the Preface locates each culture, keyed by chapter, around the globe.
Expanded references have been moved to the end of the book to serve as a bibliography.
The new Culture Sketches website provides links to maps and other pedagogical aids and includes a bank of multiple-choice quiz questions for students. The following is a brief overview of the chapters with the most significant additions:.

Chapter 1: The Azande Included is a new section entitled "Azande Today: Resettled, Unsettled," which retains the discussion of the “Zande scheme” and adds a discussion of Azande involvement in Sudan's civil war, their internal displacement, and the struggle to control resources.
Chapter 2: The Aztecs This chapter includes five new ethnographic references, several of which suggest a rereading of the conquest from an indigenous perspective.
Chapter 3: The Basseri This chapter expands upon reasons for sedentarization unique to Basseri. Includes a new last section entitled “Customary Strangers: Nomadic Pastoralists in the Modern World" which discusses educational programs for pastoralists (“Iranian tent schools”). This new section contains contemporary scholarship regarding nomadic peoples, examining the changing nature of their social systems, which are challenged by political and environmental transformations in numerous nation-states throughout the world. Also discussed is the demarcation and enforcement of new international borders, which in these tense political times have transformed some pastoralist travel along traditional migration routes.
Chapter 4: Haiti This edition updates the political situation in Haiti, noting the replacement of Aristide's government.
Chapter 6: The Ju/'hoansi An updated section, "The Ju/'hoansi Today," discusses the San court case contesting their displacement, as well as the modern challenges of alcohol abuse and HIV/AIDS in the region. Botswana is the nation with the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world; Namibia is fifth. This places the San, ninety percent of whom reside in these two nations, at the epicenter of the epidemic.
Chapter 7: The Kaluli This chapter includes a new section, “ 'Before' and 'Now': Modernity and the Language of Missionization," which examines cultural change as evidenced by language change.
Chapter 10: The Nuer This chapter includes a new section, "Modern Challenges: Civil War and Resettlement." It includes a consideration of the Nuer involvement in Sudan's civil war, its inclusion of the tribal rivalry between Nuer and Dinka, and also it expands the examinination of Nuer in the United States with a section on the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” tens of thousands of children who fled their villages and walked hundreds of miles to refugee camps, 4,000 of whom were eventually resettled in the United States.
Chapter 11: The Ojibwa This chapter includes a new section, "Environmental Degradation: Triumph over Pijibowin" (poison), that focuses on environmental degradation and land endangerment by industrial development.
Chapter 12: The Samoans This chapter introduces a discussion of the renewed visibility of chiefs in a number of modern nation-states who mediate local realities and larger spheres of national and transnational interaction.
Chapter 13: The Tiwi This chapter considers the way dance in the pukamani ceremony demonstrates kin ties.
Chapter 14: The Trobriand Islanders This chapter includes a new section on tourism that discusses the ways in which Trobrianders create for their “customers” the performance tourists expect to see.
Chapter 15: The Yanomamo This chapter now includes information on the controversy surrounding Patrick Tierney's book Darkness in El Dorado.

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