A collection of seventeen essays focusing on the issue of practising anthropology in one's own society.

This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, un

In 1969 Vine Deloria, Jr., in his controversial book Custer Died for Your Sins, criticized the anthropological community for its impersonal dissection of living

An excellent introduction to real-world ethnography, this book covers short- and long-term participant observation and ethnographic interviewing and uses divers